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Grafting Wax
Grafting wax is easy but messy to make. If only a little is needed better
buy it at a garden supply store; if a great deal, make it thus: In
an old pot with a rounded bottom melt 3 pounds of resin over a gentle
fire. Add 3 pounds of beeswax and 2 of hard beef tallow. Melt but avoid
boiling. Stir well until thoroughly mixed. Pour into a tub of cold
water and flatten out to cool evenly. When cool enough to handle,
knead and pull with well greased hands till like molasses taffy.
Then form into balls or sticks for convenience of handling. If desired
for storing, wrap in grease-soaked or paraffined paper. To apply,
warm it in the hands or in warm water over a lantern or in a glue
pot.
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