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stroth frame, and from a point three or four feet from there 

 I put a board about the same height. This frame would go 

 inside the boiler, and the board rested on something else to 

 prevent it from falling over sidewise, and to prevent it from 

 breaking down, and whatever happened to be handy I threw 

 on top of this board and this frame pressed the board down, 

 that I had the gunny sack on, and when I came back it had 

 gone down within six inches of the water, and the water had 

 risen above the slumgum and board. I simply threw off the 

 weight and poured it in Simplicity bee-hive covers — ^they will 

 hold about 14 pounds of wax ; I poured out 24 pounds of wax 

 from this rendering. I didn't spend more than 54 of an hour. 

 I got very little wax from the slumgum. That would be 

 about as simple, and take less time to get the same amount 

 of wax. I have used the German wax-press and I like it, 

 and I think it is a very handy thing to have, but I can get 

 along so easily the other way that I wouldn't think of buy- 

 ing one. 



A Member — You simply used Mr. Abbott's sieve in an- 

 other form. 



Mr. Starkey — The weight is so light that the water boil- 

 ing would stir up the cocoons that would hold the wax, and 

 allow the wax to escape, which it would always do, to the 

 top, the water being very heavy. The water is a very im- 

 portant element. It is heavier and it gets through the cloth. 



Mr. Root — Your method would take a great deal of time 

 compared to these other methods. 



Mr. Starkey — In what way? I did nothing but fill the 

 kettle and pour off. I would go and put in more as it cooked- 

 down, as it melts. 



Mr. Root — Your actual work was little. 



Mr. Starkey — ^Very little. /v 



Mr. Root — That might be a very good way. 



Mr. France — Did you clean that boiler or let the house- 

 wife do it? 



Mr. Starkey — I cleaned it. There was some slum. My 

 wife don't use this boiler. I never let her look at it, even. 

 I scraped the slum out when it was dry. I had no trouble 

 doing it. While I am speaking on this subject I want to say 

 that I wouldn't even ask my wife to let me cook it in her 

 kettle. 



Mr. Niver — When Mr. Coggshall is getting old combs 

 and scrapings off of the floor and everywhere else that he 

 gets them from, he puts them into gunny-sacks as fast as he 

 gets them, and at some time when he has not too much to do 

 he puts them in a kettle, sinks in several gunny sacks of this 

 comb, and puts under a long lever with weights on it, and 

 then he goes on out to the barn and presses a carload of hay ; 

 then comes back and takes out what wax there is, and com- 

 mences over again. That is his method under the lever pres- 

 sure in a caldron kettle with fire under it. That gives heat 

 and pressure. ; 



Mr. Root-i-Do you think he gets all the wax? 



Mr. Nivef^ — He hasn't time to worry much about that. , 



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