WAX FROM SUCAR CANE.
This will interest beekeepers: The " West India Committee Circular states that application has been made for a patent for a process of extracting wax from the sugar cane. It seems that the rind of the cane contains a certaiji proportion of wax which has. hitherto been lost with the refuse. By the new process this wax is now recovered from the filter refuse and turned to commercial uses, boing very similar in its characteristics to beeswax or Carnauba wax, which can bo used for precisely tho same purposes. Tho wax, which resembles that now used very largely for making cylinders for so-called talking machines, is exceedingly hard and capable of taking a high polish. It is understood that many factories in Java will this year bo using this process. It is to be hoped that it may serve tlie same purposes as beeswax so far as comb-foundation is concerned, for, with tho rapid expansion of modern frame-hivo beekeeping, thcro is developing a keen need of a substitute for beeswax.
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Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 332, 20 October 1908, Page 5
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