GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



E'EBRUARY, 1918 



An outfit for rendering wax on a large scale. Only half a liarrel of wateir is nee4ed and as this 

 can be used over and over again thei'e is little heat wasted. The comb is melted in the two w^ash-boilers and 

 after being tran.sferred to the double press the hot water and wax are pressed out and poured into the bar- 

 rel. Whenever moie water is needed it is drawn from the bottom of the' barrel, the same water being thus 

 used over and over. About 40 combs fill the boiler and one boilei-full just fills the press. 



an impractical one on account of the waste 

 of wax. 



The New Wax-Press. 

 Convinced that nothing but intermittent 

 pressure on melted comb under hot water 

 will extract all the wax, I turned back again, 



as T always do, to the wax-press. This time 

 wanting a press of larger capacity than that 

 of the regular Hatch wax-press, I recalled 

 the hot-water press that I used to use so much 

 when I first began experimenting with wax- 

 presses about 15 years ago. This had a round 



To prevent chilling ol the hot water and wax the boiler is set off the stove and thie press can dra.wn ooit 

 over the fire where it is covered up and allowed to stand until the water boils. During this time the c^mb 

 is again saturated with hot water. The can is then slid back under the sorewis and the pressure applied. 

 Each lot of comb is pressed thtree times being brought back to the boiling point between each pressing. 

 Allowing the water to boil results in nearly two per cent more wax. 



