Mr. Jones: We use that over the cut.
The Chairman: How do you make your wax cloth?
Mr. Jones: We take a roll of this, possibly three or four yards long, very thin muslin, roll it up and drop it in the melted wax.
The Chairman: How do you make that wax?
Mr. Jones: We don't measure the ingredients, but I think it varies from four to six pound of rosin, to one pound of beeswax and a tea cup full of boiled linseed oil and about a tablespoon of lamp black.
Prof. Smith: What do you use the lamp black for, Mr. Jones?
Mr. Jones: To toughen the wax so that it will not crack and so that it will adhere better.
A Member: How do you get your excess of wax off the cloth?
Mr. Jones: We just throw the rolls on a board and press them.
Mr. Reed: I believe you would find it easier to tear it up into strips than to put it in rolls. We have been using that method. We ran short of cloth and I went to town and got some and tore off a piece about 8 or 9 yards long and folded it up into strips that wide and dipped it in the pure beeswax and pressed it on a board and it was ready for work.