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But as wax is to become so important, and as the above 

 methods are slow, wasteful, and apt to give a poor quality of 

 wax, specialists, and even amateurs who keep ten or twenty 

 colonies of bees, may well procure a wax-extractor (Fig. 180). 

 This is also a foreign invention, the first being made by Prof. 

 Gerster, of Berne, Switzerland. These cost from five to seven 



Fig. 181. 



Juni:.^ Wa.i:-ICxtracior. — ]■ ro}it, D, A. Jones. 



dollars, are made of tin, are very convenient and admirable, 

 and can be procured of any dealer in apiarian supplies. 



The comb is placed in the perforated vessel, and this in 

 the larger can, which is set on a kettle of boiling water. The 

 clean, pure wax passes out the spout. Mr. Jones has improved 

 the common wax-extractor (Fig. 181). This is what he says 

 of it: 



" Put the extractor on the stove in the same manner as an 

 ordinary pot, having beforehand filled the lower tank with 

 water, and the perforated basket above the tank with broken 



