FINAL HINTS. 83 



Use Cane Sugar. 



In feeding bees, be careful never to use beet sugar, but 

 always refined cane. 



Manipulating. 



When handling bees, be cool and confident, do not make 

 any sudden movements, and be careful not to jar the hive in 

 any way. If a person is afraid of bees they soon find it out, 

 while if he is quiet and firm he but seldom receives any 

 stings. 



Easy Method of Extracting Wax from Combs. 



For extracting the wax from old combs in small quantities, 

 the following method answers very well. Get a biscuit tin 

 and punch a number of small holes in the bottom of it ; then 

 fill, it up with the odds and ends of wax, broken pieces of comb, 

 etc. ; place the tin over a vessel containing water, so that the 

 bottom of the tin is at least | inch above the water in the 

 vessel below. Place the whole in the oven, and the wax will 

 be melted and drain through the holes in the bottom of the 

 tin, leaving the residue behind. The oven needs to be very 

 hot to melt out aU the wax : care must be taken to keep the 

 vessel below full of water, otherwise the wax will stick to its 

 sides, a,nd may burn, if the oven is very hot indeed. This 

 method of rendering wax is thoroughly practical, and will 

 be found useful by those who do not possess the Swiss Wax 

 Extractor, which is decidedly expensive. 



Do not Shake a Queen Cell. 



Never shake a comb on frame containing queen cells if you 

 can possibly avoid doing so. It is apt to injure or destroy the 

 embroyo queens inside the cells. If you wish to remove the 

 bees it is best to drive them off with smoke, and afterwards 

 brush off any that remain with a goose wing or soft brush — 

 taking great care not to touch the cells themselves with the 

 brush. 



