Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 January 1890 — Making Beeswax. [ARTICLE]

Making Beeswax.

I suppose that every beekeeper makes more or less wax, writes a correspondent, of Be§u Gleanings, if he doesn’t he surely is wasting material which Could be made into wax, and so save3.= I don’t like to see any scraps of wax or bits ot comb or anything that has beeswax in it going to waste. Wax is worth money. Tuere is always a cash market for all we can get. Wo keep at home a box into which we put everything we have which will make wax that is, scraps of comb, old discarded combs, or anything we are going to melt up into wax. We always take with us, when we go out to our yards away from home, a box holding nearly a bushel. Into this we put such things as scrapings of honeyboards, broken combs, drone combs, which we cut out, or any bits of comb. These we carry home, to be melted up. It is not then lying around, breeding moths. When it is made into wax, there is a cash value in it. and can be turned into cash at any time, or kept if we choose to hold it for a higher price.