FIFTY YEAKS AMONG THE BEES 



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The wax-press is placed upon the cookstove (Fig. 108), 

 and the work is done aeeoi'ding to the instructions sent out 

 with the machine. I find that time is an important element in 

 the work, and that there is nothing to be gained by trying to 

 hurry up matters by screwing down very hard. If the screw 

 be turned down as tight as can be done without sliding the can 

 around on the stove, that is all that is necessary. Then when 

 the wax ceases to run it can be turned down again. Continu- 



Fig. 111 — "Busy at the Typewriter." 



ing in this way till no more wax runs, when tlie sluniguiu is 

 turned out (Fig. 109) it is so free from wax that it is not 

 worth working over again. The wax saved by using the steam 

 wax-press will jaay immense interest on the money invested in 

 its purchase. 



But the tendency to specializing has invaded the domain 

 of wax-rendering, and now one can send off his old combs, 

 eappings, and bits of wax, and have the rendering done by 

 specialists without the bother and muss. 



OTHER WINTER WOKK. 



The work of getting sections ready for the hoped-for 

 harvest of the coming sununer has already been mentioned, 

 and the winter affords opportunity for making up hives. 



