BEESWAX 



Muffin tins, egg cups, pails, or any recep- 

 tacles of proper size may be used to pour the 

 melted wax into for molding, first wetting 

 the vessel with water, and when the wax has 

 cooled into solid cakes it can be dumped out 

 and is ready for market. Some of the supply 

 houses make little tins for molding the wax 

 into cakes that retail for ten cents, and these 

 are a help where the wax is to be sold in the 

 home town or placed with the grocery trade 

 for sale. Little candles made of beeswax give 

 a brilliant light and throw off a delicate per- 

 fume ; the molds and wicks for making them 

 can be had at slight cost, and their sale brings 

 the highest prices for the wax that is used. 



I know of one beekeeper who is able to 

 make a dozen of these little candles from a 

 pound of beeswax, and he has no difficulty 

 in getting $1 a dozen for them. By all means 

 husband your old combs and cappings, as the 

 revenue derived from them will often pay for 

 the foundation that from time to time has to be 

 bought for brood frames and section boxes. 



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