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when water is used. Running it through 

 the second time will remove almost all 

 foreign matter. For cleansing wax in 

 this way, -and for rendering cappings is 

 about the only use I make of the solar 

 extractor; for the boiling process is so 

 much quicker. After one acquires the 

 knack of it, one can, by using an extra 

 boiler or kettle in which to heat water, 

 render a large amount in one day; and, 

 by the process which I have described, 

 the refuse will not contain enough wax 

 to pay to fuss with any press that I know 

 any thing about. 



It is very important, however, to have 

 the sacks I have mentioned made of the 

 right material; woven cloth will not ans- 

 swer at all. They must be made from 

 coarse, knit, cotton stuff, like that in a 

 cheap but heavy, coarse, knit cotton 

 sock. Mine are made from a coarse qual- 

 ity of knit, cotton underwear that I 

 bought for this purpose; as such material 

 could be procured in such form only. 

 Fine, or close-knit, goods will not ans- 

 wer; and if any try to use woven cloth of 

 any kind they will find that there is a 

 large per cent, of wax left in the ' 'slum- 

 gum." It is an easy matter to test the 

 great difference the material makes, by 

 making a small sack out of woven cloth, 

 fill it with comb, boil and treat it as I 

 have described; then use a knit cotton 

 sock for a sack and note the difference 

 in the '"shim-gum" after it is cold. If 

 the refuse from old comb that has been 

 rendered by boiling contains wax, it can 

 be readily detected after it is cold; but 

 refuse from a solar extractor may contain 

 much wax without one being able to de- 

 tect it unless it is further treated in some 

 way. 



Possibl}' it might be of interest to some 

 for me to briefly explain how I came to 

 find out that the difference in the mate- 

 rial from which sacks are made has so 

 much to do with results. A few years 

 ago I was one day rendering old combs, 

 by the boiling process, out of doors, in a 

 large open kettle. For a sack I was us- 

 ing an ordinary grain sack, and ,as the 



refuse contained a large per cent, of wax, 

 I put it through a press. A little boy 

 who was staying at our place at the time, 

 was much interested in the work. He 

 found a small, old kettle that h id been cast 

 aside, and wanted to try the work him- 

 self. So 1 started a sm.ill fire for him, 

 and told him to go into the house and ask 

 for a small sack. They told him there 

 was none; but the hired girl had washed 

 some stockings and hung them on the 

 line to dry and one of them had fallen 

 down. He took this and filled it with 

 old comb, and gave it a vigorous stirring 

 in the kettle, as he had seen me do. La- 

 ter, when he broui^ht the refuse for me 

 to press, I saw there was no wax in it. 



In conclusion I will say that if hot wax 

 is put into ail}- dish it is a very difficult 

 matter to clean the dish, hence, one 

 should have a boiler, dipp2r and pan to 

 be used for this purpose only. A strong 

 solution of water and concentrated lye 

 will, however, remove wax from any 

 thing; but, in the case of tin, it dis- 

 colors it. 



SorTHERN Minn. March, i, 1899. 



THE CANADIAN PURE HONEY BILL. 

 Some Statements Corrected. 



S. T. PETTIT. 



BEAR Mr. Hutchinson: I need not tell 

 you that when people get excited or 

 deeply moved over discussing an impor- 

 tant matter it sometimes happens that 

 exaggerations creep in ; but in the case here 

 referred to actual inventions were employ- 

 ed, and our bill suffered. We have now 

 all had time enough to come to ourselves 

 sufficiently to let truth prevail. I wish 

 for nothing more. 



In the Bee-Keepers' Review for 1S95, 

 page 348, the following may be found: 

 "It would help somj toward peace if 

 Canadians would cease trying to get a law 



