CANDLES -- Makes excellent, fragrant, long burning candles.

WATERPROOFS -- Clotheslines, shoes, baseball gloves and all leather goods.

DOORS AND WINDOWS -- Beeswax will work well to prevent sticking.

IRONS -- Rub beeswax over heated face of iron and wipe on cloth, once or twice per ironing.

FLOOR WAX -- Dissolve beeswax in cleaning fluid to the consistency of a thin paste; makes the finest floor wax.

NEEDLES--Stick points into beeswax.

THREAD -- Run through beeswax cake to toughen and preserve.

POWER BELTS -- Beeswax rubbed on belts will help prevent slipping.

FISHLINES -- Run through beeswax to waterproof.

TOOLS -- Beeswax will lubricate and rust-proof (particularly saws and wood bits).

SCREWS -- Stick into beeswax cake before driving into hard or green wood.

SKIS, TOBOGGANS -- Polishes and waxes.

BOW STRINGS -- Excellent for coating strings.

TREES -- Good for coating wounds, grafts, buddings.

PLUMBING -- Stops leaks.

Also used by woodgrainers, auto-body and fender personnel, Yachtmen,

 Cobblers and Sail-makers.

Per:        Ed Rittershausen; “Gleanings in Bee Culture” – Jan. ‘84