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THOUSAND ANSWERS 63boiler or other vessel on the stove, weight down thesack, workingit occasionally with a stick, and skim off the wax as it rises.With old combs, in which many generations of bees have beenreared, it hardly paj's to render the wax without water, for aFig.13.—A modern wax-rendering equipment.great deal of it is soaked in the cocoons and cast skins of thelarvK. Soaking these in water first, prevents the wax adhering tothe residue, or slumgum, as they call it.But in these latter days it's hardly worth while for you to fussextracting wax from your combs when you can send the combs tothose who advertise to receive them and extract the wax for you,(and they'll get out more wax than you will), and allow you payfor the combs in wax or foundation.Combs, Straight.—Q. I have one colony with combs builtcrosswise. How would you manage to get them straight?A. It may be part of the frames are straight and the othersonly a little crooked. In that case you might be able to cut awaythe attachments and straighten the comb into its own frame. If