WAX-MAKING INSECTS.
Among tfce queer industries of China is Stat of breeding wax-pro-ducing insects. But these insects will not work in their birthplace, strange to say, and have to be carried in gourds 400 miles by porters travelling only at night. There are thousands of insects in these gourds, which are wrapped in leaves picked from a tree. His journey ended, the man immediately goes to his master and delivers his burden of gourds. At once the leafy bags are tied up on the branches of the ash trees, only sSfc. or 6ft. high. By September, four months from the time the insects started on their long journey the trees look as if covered with snow. The branches are then cut off and their quarter of an inch - of pure white coating scraped off. The wax is heated, strained, and turn 3d into moulds to be used for lighting, and for furniture polish, and imparting a polish to silk.
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Cromwell Argus, Volume XXXV, Issue 1942, 19 June 1905, Page 2
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