A MONTHLY JOURNAL 



Devoted to the Interests of Honey Producers 

 f LUO a Bear 



W. Z. HUTCHINSON, Editor and Publisher. 



VOL. XXIII. 



FLINT, MICHIGAN, APRIL 1, 1910. 



NO. 4 



Rendering Old Combs Into Wax, With Great 

 Ease, Speed and Perfection. 



W. Z. HUTCHINSON. 



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■R. W. J. Manley, of Sandusky, 

 Michigan, has perfected a method 

 of wax making that deserves the 

 above title. I visited him recently, and 

 watched the modus operandi, then made 

 a photograph of the paraphernalia. 



The characteristic features of the plan 

 are that of pressing only a small amount 

 of material at one time, doing it very 

 thoroughly, yet with such a system that 

 one batch can follow another in rapid 

 succession, pressing the slum gum under 

 water that is boiling hot; releasing and 

 re-applying the pressure, a la Hershiser; 

 getting the wax up on top of the water, 

 away from the slum gum and the burlap 

 packing; then pouring the wax and hot 

 water off into a cooling tank; and, last, 

 but not least, drawing off the hot water 

 from under the wax, in the cooling tank, 

 and using this hot water over again for 

 melting the next batch, thus saving the 

 heating of another boiler of water. 



First, let's describe the implements, or 

 utensils. For heating the water ha uses 

 a common, six-griddle, cook-stove, with 

 a reservoir. The old combs are melted i 

 in two, common wash-boilers. The one*- 



thing that must be built with the greatest 

 care is the press. He first tried presses 

 sent out by manufacturers, only to meet 

 with disappointment. They couldn't 

 "stand the pressure." The outside jacket 

 is 15 inches in diameter, 18 inches deep, 

 and made of heavy, galvanized iron. 

 Around the top, inside of the can, is 

 bolted, very solidly, an iron hoop an 

 inch and a half wide, and ^ inch thick. 

 Bolted to opposite sides of the can, at its 

 upper edge, the bolts passing through the 

 iron hoop just mentioned, are two strips 

 of iron, | thick, about 4 inches long, 

 having one end turned outwards and 

 formed into a hook that will receive a 

 bolt ^ of an inch in diameter. The cross- 

 piece, above the can, through which 

 passes the screw, is about four inches 

 wide, and two and one-half inches thick, 

 of hard wood, and reinforced by a piece 

 of wagon tire iron half an inch thick and 

 as wide as the piece of wood. Mr. 

 Manley says that only the man who has 

 been through the mill can realize the 

 necessity for making everything very 

 strong. The pressure that can be 

 exerted with a screw is something 



