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Show l : f The Bee-Keeper Advise and Infermatien en the raising ef beee aad th production ef hney written by an expert. 1 Bv Cmoram g ,J 1 the combe again, repeating thia until moat of the warn la removed. This Is thea allowed to cool, after which the waa may be lifted out in a chunk. Wax In this state Is not clean by any means a Beea wax I on of th byproducts of houaekeeplig and should not be overlooked over-looked by housekeepers ss there U quite a revenue derived from It. Before the advent of extractors all sklnd of honey may feel sure that he Is ! buying a pure product of the beea since comb honey cannot be adulterated It i Is Impossible to make an artificial : comb, fill It with honey or syrup and I cap It so that It resembles tha work of i bees. More than once the assertion haa been made that they can manufacture manu-facture comb honey. 'but all attempts I h i-s. tfei'nwwMi fat ilii ratal a fid ahould be remelted a number of times so that the residua may settle to the bottom from where It can be scraped. After all dirt haa been removed re-moved run It Into a vesael that la larger at the top than at the bottom so that after It cools It may be lifted out In one pteoe. Most beekeepers ship their waa to dealers that make It up Into foundation. Wax that I thoroughly clean wilt always al-ways bring from t to I cents a bound 1 more than dirty wax. eft that where! you have a large amount It will pay you to see that your wax la clean. Besides being used for making foundation, foun-dation, beeswax Is used In tha manufacture manu-facture of many different articles. It la used extensively in the manufacture manufac-ture of eandlesk which are mostly used In churches. It la also used for making mak-ing furniture and lea the polishes; sealing and grafting waxes and In making certain varnish ea. Borne of the finest face creams eon-tain eon-tain a large percentage of beeswax. If you buy beeswax In a drug store you will notice that It is nearly white. Thia whlteneae Is obtained by bleaching. bleach-ing. It Is cut Into thin strips and placed where the sun wil strike It. which turns Ita color from yellow to white. Besides th wax that Is raised In the country, there l Imported annually, about 7),e-04 pounds which comes mostly from Cuba, Porto Rico and the Hawaiian Inlands. As a good many people would rather run fur aection honey, especially those having but a few colonies, I will endeavor en-deavor In thia and my next article to explain how to beat manipulate for this kind of honey. Section or comb honey Is honey as stored In the comb by the beea, the siae and shape of the comb being determined de-termined by the small woden section provided by the beekeeper and the comb being sold with the section still surrounding It. j The purchaaer of a aection of this honey had to be melted, wax and all. before the honey could be marketed, but now all the wax that we gV la from capptnga, burr combs, old combs, and comba that are broke accidently. Tha preparation of this wax for market mar-ket Involves considerable labor and on this account the beekeeper very often neglects this end of the business. However, How-ever, if pieces of comb are carefully preserved from moths they ma be kept until you have eufflcient to Justify Jus-tify you the time that needs to be expended In rendering them. Beeswax Is ordinarily removed from the combe by heat. Capping from extracting ex-tracting and new combo may be melted up and the wax alewed to harden In a cake since these contain little or no foreign matter. If any dirt la present. It will settle to the bottom In cooling and may be cut from the cake. The most common method for melting wax Is by the use of the solar wax extractor; ex-tractor; the combo being placed In a box covered with glass and ths heat of the sun melts the wax which runs Into a lower compartment where It bardena. Another simple method la to use double boiler, .placing the capplnge and combs In the Inner one to prevent pre-vent them from burning. I These methoda are only satisfactory i fr dean combs, free from foreign sub-stancea, sub-stancea, but In the case ef old dirty combs, a wax press la necessary for securing what wax Is In them. To render those they ahould be broken up and then soaked In water after which they should be put In a sack., heated and pressed under strong pressure while bet. la this way moat of the wax is saved. To my knowl-! knowl-! edge, the beat method Is to aae what Is called a 'hot water press, which consist con-sist of a tank with a press similar to, the letter preeesa used In office for pressing letters. This tank I kept full af boiling water which covers the sack containing the combs. After pressure has been used, the pree should be released so Hut water may saturate The advantages In the production of comb honey are numerous, some of the fine flavors of honey are lost through extracting that are retained h comb honey. For a email beekeeper, the expense of equipment la small compared com-pared to extracted honey. The handling of comb honey Is a clean job and there is an attractiveness about the product that makes the nan- 1 dling of it a pleasure. The price of. comb honey Is higher than extracted. but the amount obtained from each colony Is smaller so that ths returns j ; are comparatively the same In either case. If the season Is bad and the flow of money ia light. It la beat to run for extracted honey, because then you get what honey la stored in the combs while what honey Is stored In the section, unless they are filled, la practically a total lose and then again sections are not salable if- the honey granulates In the cells as la very often the case. In some parts of the country It la ueeleaa to run for comb honey on account of the color of the honey gathered and unless you are located where you get good white clover honey, you are better off to run for extracted. .In my next Sunday's article I will continue on the production of comb honey; how beat to manipulate for the best results; the equipment necessary and all details that are connected with comb honey production. |