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On Rational Bee-Keeping, 
CHAPTER XVL 
ON THE MANUFACTURE OF WAX. 
Put some small, well-washed pebbles into a 
copper pot (for iron affects the colour of the 
wax), and place your comb in a bag made of 
fine canvas, tightly closed ; put this into the 
copper pot filled with water, taking care that 
the bag be always immersed. Let it remain on 
a slow fire until it begins to simmer. The wax 
in melting will collect on the top. If there is 
still some pollen amongst it, warm it up gently 
a second time, and let it cool. The refuse, 
which will be found under the cake of wax, 
ought to be removed with a knife ; the wax 
will then be in a fit state for the market. 
What remains should be melted up with some 
more wax on another occasion, so that none of 
the particles which it contains may be wasted. 
