. The Bee-keepers' review. Bee culture. THE bKE-KEEPERS' REVIEW. 107 A SOLAR WAX HXTRACTOR. Oik- Peculiarly Ahapted to the MellinjT of Cappings and the Piirifvinjj of Wax. \VM. M'i:vov. i*J A-W thanks to 30U, Mr. Beck vvi111, for that very valuable let- ter on rendering wax; and, also, for the photo of the ])ress which ap- peared in the Re- view' for January IS99. 1 shall make a press like it; and when rendering old combs will use it; and therebj- get a Jiiuch larger amount of wax than can be gotten out of old combs in any other in the melting up of old faulty combs of anything that has
. The Bee-keepers' review. Bee culture. THE bKE-KEEPERS' REVIEW. 107 A SOLAR WAX HXTRACTOR. Oik- Peculiarly Ahapted to the MellinjT of Cappings and the Piirifvinjj of Wax. \VM. M'i:vov. i*J A-W thanks to 30U, Mr. Beck vvi111, for that very valuable let- ter on rendering wax; and, also, for the photo of the ])ress which ap- peared in the Re- view' for January IS99. 1 shall make a press like it; and when rendering old combs will use it; and therebj- get a Jiiuch larger amount of wax than can be gotten out of old combs in any other in the melting up of old faulty combs of anything that has been brought to the trout in the bee industry for many years. While on my rounds through the Pro- vince of Ontario I have seen, during the last nine years, many thousands of old combs in use that should have been made into wax, and would have been had they been mine; because I do not believe in keeping even one~ old comb that is not perfect in every respect. I have a fine solar wax extractor which I bought of its inventor, Mr. Alpaugh; and it is worth |; a season for melting the cappings into wax. It has a fine, wire-cloth basket, about the size and shape of an old-fashioned, wooden, sap- trough, which hangs across the high end; and when the cappings melt the wax falls down in showers upon a slanting sheet of tin, and then runs down to the end of it, and drops into a tin pan. The basket is hung so high that the sun shines in be-. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original National Bee-keepers' Association. [Flint, Mich. : s. n.
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