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To Color Bees' Wax (Another method is to add)

Another method is to add bright palm oil to the wax till it gets sufficient color; but this plan is objectionable from the quantity required for the purpose being often so large as to injure the quality of the wax; besides which the color produced is inferior, and less transparent and permanent. 1588. Factitious, or Imitation Bees' Wax. Yellow resin, 16 pounds; hard mutton suet or stearine, 8 pounds; palm oil, 2+ pounds; melt together.

II. As last, but substitute turmeric, 1 pound, for the palm oil.

III. Best annotto, 6 ounces, or sufficient to color; water, 1 gallon; boil till dissolved, add hard mutton suet or stearine, 35 pounds; ye!process is to produce a wax which shall at tation till perfectly mixed and of a proper once be bright or semi-translucent in thin color, and as soon as it begins to thicken, pieces, and good colored. The former is best pour it out into basins to cool. When cokl insured by allowing the melted mass to settle rub each cake over with a little potato starch. well, and by carefully skimming and decant- Used instead of wax in ointments by farrier, ing the clear portion without disturbing the 1589. Braconot's Method of Making sediment. It should also not be poured into Artificial Wax. Any animal grease cr the moulds too warm, as, in that case, it is tallow is liquefied by cil of turpentine, and apt to separate, and the resulting cakes to be poured into small round boxes lined with felt CHEESE. in the inside, with a number of small holes pletely turned, when the curd is struck down bored in the sides and the bottom. From several times with the skimming-dish, after these little boxes the liquid is pressed out which it is allowed to subside. The vat gradually, but sufficiently to get rid of the covered with cheese-cloth is next placed on a turpentine oil and all the fluidity. The firm horse or ladder over the tub, and filled with mass remaining must be washed a long time curd by means of the skimmer; the curd is in water, to take away the smell of the oil of pressed down with the hands, and more added turpentine, and then kept fluid for several as it sinks. This process is repeated until hours with animal charcoal freshly prepared the curd rises to about 2 inches above the and afterwards filtered whilst boiling. When edge. The cheese thus partially separated cooled, it is a substance beautifully white, from the whey is now placed in a clean tub, half transparent, dry, brittle, and free from and a proper quantity of salt added, or the taste or smell; and will mix well with chlo- salt is added to it without removing it from it it without removing it from rine or muriatic acid, or with } of wax to give the vat, after which a board is placed over it the necessary suppleness. In this state and under it, and pressure applied for 2 or 3 the mass can be made into candles not to be hours.

The cheese is next turned out and distinguished from wax lights. The turpen- surrounded by a fresh cheese-cloth, and prestine is separated from the other oil, and sure again applied for 8 or 10 hours, when it evaporated by means of distillation; and this is commonly removed from the press, salted oil, when purified and whitened with animal all over, and pressed again for 15 to 20 hours. charcoal, is of great service in the preparation of a soap extremely well adapted for the trade and for household purposes. This animal oil, when saponified with potash, and then by means of the sulphuric acidulated soda often placing it in the press the last time, the The quality of the cheese especially depends on this part of the process, as, if any of the whey be left in the cheese, it will not keep, but will rapidly become bad flavored. Before contained in the mother lye, can be changed edges should be pared smooth and sightly. into a hard soda scap. There is also a sul- It now only remains to wash the outside of phate of potash, much in demand in the alum the cheese in warm whey or water, wipe it works, to be obtained from it.