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The Great 1982 Beeswax Recovery Controversy...
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<blockquote data-quote="John B" data-source="post: 13202" data-attributes="member: 207"><p>My father had a fairly high comb replacement rate compared to many beekeepers and brood combs were replaced when you couldn't see light through them. Cappings wax did not require pressing but just melting and settling. Old combs required pressing and ideally settling for several days. It was hot dirty work which I used to really enjoy. Broken frames went to fuel the wood fired boiler while unbroken frames were de wired, cleaned up,and then re wired , re waxed and reused sometimes many times over. Slumgum was used both for the garden and also for firing the boiler.</p><p>We didn't but many beekeepers used to store all their wax and only sell it when they had a very poor honey harvest to help out with cash flow.</p><p>During the Korean War when wax prices were very high my father melted out most of his honey frames and these went back on just a tiny strip of foundation for a starter. I suspect that wax prices (adjusting for inflation) were much higher in the old days.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="John B, post: 13202, member: 207"] My father had a fairly high comb replacement rate compared to many beekeepers and brood combs were replaced when you couldn't see light through them. Cappings wax did not require pressing but just melting and settling. Old combs required pressing and ideally settling for several days. It was hot dirty work which I used to really enjoy. Broken frames went to fuel the wood fired boiler while unbroken frames were de wired, cleaned up,and then re wired , re waxed and reused sometimes many times over. Slumgum was used both for the garden and also for firing the boiler. We didn't but many beekeepers used to store all their wax and only sell it when they had a very poor honey harvest to help out with cash flow. During the Korean War when wax prices were very high my father melted out most of his honey frames and these went back on just a tiny strip of foundation for a starter. I suspect that wax prices (adjusting for inflation) were much higher in the old days. [/QUOTE]
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