. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 304 AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL September second rost—all mussy work. A properly made tool, which I will de- scribe later on, would prevent all this trouble; it is a pleasure to manipu- late it. The same principle these two men make use of I apply to my wax-ren- dering, and for the small beekeeper who has only a small amount of wax to make, not more than perhaps fifty or seventy-five pounds, this will ac- commodate him, providing he has convenient tools to work with. There is nothing mussy or disagreeable about wax rendering when we are prepared for it. I do
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 304 AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL September second rost—all mussy work. A properly made tool, which I will de- scribe later on, would prevent all this trouble; it is a pleasure to manipu- late it. The same principle these two men make use of I apply to my wax-ren- dering, and for the small beekeeper who has only a small amount of wax to make, not more than perhaps fifty or seventy-five pounds, this will ac- commodate him, providing he has convenient tools to work with. There is nothing mussy or disagreeable about wax rendering when we are prepared for it. I do not even spend any extra time when doing it. At the same time when I am labeling and filling cans, preparing sections for market or doing any other bench work, I generally keep my wax ma- chine on a little three-burner oil stove on the end of the bench in op- eration, when I have wax to make. Rendering wax is like any other work, it must be done in proper time. This, of course, has reference to the small one-horse beekeeper who has not the up-to-date outfit for the manufacture of wax in a wholesale way nor the means for the upkeep of such an outfit. By taking time by the forelock, beginning to work up our cappings as soon as we begin ex- tracting, many little advantages may be gained. When the uncapping can is filled up it has to be emptied to make room for the next day's ex- tracting; the cappings have to be drained and washed for rendering into wax, and there is no better, easier time for this than to begin right away after each day's extract- ing. With the uncapping knife cap- pings are then easily chopped up and loosened up to allow the yet warm and pliable honey to drain during the night. Next morning the cappings can be moved into a dishpan large enough to hold the previous day's cappings and soaked with sufficient warm water to detach the honey that may be left from the night's drain- ing. After a thorough stirring up with a large, long-handled skimmer, the most conve
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