There is much to be said in favor of doing all possible to dispel 
from the minds of the general public the idea that granulated honey 
should not be eaten. Many who have not had the opportunity to 
use it in this form are delighted with it, and it is possible that most 
of the extracted honey could be disposed of in the granulated form 
if beekeepers generally used their influence in this direction. This 
would save the beekeeper an immense amount of worry and unneces- 
sary work. 
Wax 
After the honey has been pressed from the cappings they may be 
melted in an abundance of hot water and practically all the free wax 
dipped from the top. 
Rendering Old Combs 
It sometimes happens that the beekeeper has old combs which, 
by reason of damage or disease, he wishes to render into beeswax. 
If there is a hundred pounds of such material it will pay well 
to ship it to some reliable wax-rendering plant which will usually 
get enough additional wax from it to pay the charges, and an exceed- 
ingly disagreeable job is avoided. If the beekeeper has but a small 
amount, a good quantity of wax may be secured by crowding the old 
combs tightly into a coarse burlap bag and boiling in some large 
vessel. It is suggested, to avoid accidents, that this be done out 
of doors. 
While the boiling is in progress the bag should be prodded with 
the end of a board to facilitate the free wax coming through the 
meshes of the bag. When there seems to be no more wax escaping 
from the bag, cause it to sink to the bottom of the vessel with some 
weight, remove the source of heat, and when the water is cold the 
cake of wax can he lifted from the surface. While this does not 
get all the wax, it gets all that it will pay to recover where the 
amount of material is small. 
If old combs infected with American foulbrood are to be shipped 
to a wax-rendering plant, unless they are entirely free from honey, they 
should be boiled before shipment to prevent the possibility of con- 
tagion by means of dripping honey being spread on the way or any- 
where the smeared car may go. The laws of some states prohibit 
the shipment of such infected material. 
Marketing 
New Jersey beekeepers for the most part have a peculiar advan- 
tage in that there are so many opportunities for the disposal of 
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