Gleanings in bee culture . stance, one correspondent said that the cheesewas as hard as a board—a fact which he seem-ed to think intlicated that it had received somuch pressure that surely no wax could beleft, while, as a matter of fact, the more waxleft in a cheese, the harder it is when stated that the refuse was perfectlydry. and would shake out like ashes. WhileI think this would indicate that pretty thor-ough work had been done, yet, as I said be-fore, very little can be determined from anexamination of cold refuse. Without actual-ly testing it, the best way, peihaps, to tell
Gleanings in bee culture . stance, one correspondent said that the cheesewas as hard as a board—a fact which he seem-ed to think intlicated that it had received somuch pressure that surely no wax could beleft, while, as a matter of fact, the more waxleft in a cheese, the harder it is when stated that the refuse was perfectlydry. and would shake out like ashes. WhileI think this would indicate that pretty thor-ough work had been done, yet, as I said be-fore, very little can be determined from anexamination of cold refuse. Without actual-ly testing it, the best way, peihaps, to tellwhether there is any wax left is to take ahandful of refuse when it is hot, and squeezeit. If line lines of wax appear along thecreases between the fingers, it contains atleast from eight to ten per cent of wax. Theonly way, then, to lind the exact amount ofwax remaining is to run the refuse throughsome form of press, and do the work thor-oughly. Many bee-keepers place the combsin an old burlap sack, and immerse the sack. Fig. 1. A crude method of extracting- wax from oldcombs, which wastes about 25 per cent. in boiling water. This is punched with astick, or covered with a slatted frame weight-ed down heavily so that the wax is forcedout. In either case there is a waste on theaverage of about 25 per cent. Mr. Orel , of Buffalo, N. Y., rendered, withhis hot-water press, 85 lbs. of refuse which had been treated in this way by one of thelargest producers in this country, and ob-tained 28 lbs. of pure wax, showing that inthis one instance the method of renderingunder hot water, without the proper amountof pressure, yielded, perhaps, less than two-thirds of the total amount of wax.
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