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STRAINING HONEY. 
any time be warmed, and water added until it is of 
the right consistence. 
GETTING OUT WAX DIFFERENT METHODS. 
Several methods have been adopted for separating 
the wax. I never found any means of getting out the 
whole. Yet I suppose I came as near it as any one. 
Some recommend heating it in an oven, similar to the 
method of straining honey through the colander, but 
I have found it to waste more than when melted with 
water. A better way for small quantities, is to half 
fill a coarse stout bag with refuse comb and a few 
cobble-stones to sink it, and boil it in a kettle of 
water, pressing and turning it frequently till the wax 
ceases to rise. When the contents of the bag are 
emptied, by squeezing a handful, the particles of wax 
may be seen, and you may thereby judge of the 
quantity thrown away. For large quantities the fore- 
going process is rather tedious. It can be facilitated 
by having two levers four or five feet long and about 
four inches wide, and fastened at the lower end bj r a 
strong hinge. The combs are put into a kettle of 
boiling water, and will melt almost immediately; it is 
then put into the bag, and taken between the levers 
in a wash-tub or other large vessel and pressed, the 
contents of the bag shaken, and turned, several times 
during the process, and if need be returned to the 
boiling water and squeezed again. The wax, with a 
little water, is now to be remelted and strained again 
through finer cloth, into vessels that will mould it 
into the desired shape. As the sediment settles to 
