TOOI-S FOR CUTTING COMBS. 
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tom when you are cutting tliooombs out of an inverted hive. 
Have the under side flat aud the top beveled ; this blade 
need not be more than a fourth of an inch wide. This is 
used for cutting the combs loose from the lid or any place 
where they are to be cut horizontally. With these tools all 
the combs and honey can be taken from a hive without de- 
stroying the hive. 
WAX. 
Beeswax is made by putting the combs in a coffee sack or 
other strong loosely woven fabric, inserted in a kettle of boil- 
ing water. While boiling keep pressing and working it un- 
til all the wax comes through the bag. Then remove it. 
When the water cools the wax will be in a cake on the sur- 
face. To melt this wax over agaiu once or twice in clean 
water purifies and whitens it. it is bleached by being laid 
in thin flakes in the sun. 
RENDERING HONEY. 
Honey may be rendered by mashing it up and placing it 
in a bag hung where it will be warm and drip from it into a 
vessel, or mash it up in a colander placed over a vessel in a 
warm oven. Some of the wax that will melt aud run through 
can be skimmed off when the honey cools. Put the refuse 
combs into the honey boxes for the bees to empty. Persons 
who have much honey and wish to empty it out of the combs 
in order to have them refilled, can obtaiu a patent machine 
for that purpose by applying to S. Wagoner, Washington, 
D. G. 
THE APIARY. 
The bees should be near the house where they can be 
heard when they swarm. They should also be whero they 
would not feel the north and west wind, where they can have 
a cal.u warm place to light. It makes but little difference 
which way the hives face; perhaps an easterly or southeast- 
erly exposure is best. It is well if they can have the sun 
two or three hours in the morning, and as many in the even- 
ing, but shaded during the heat of the day. The shade of a 
