. Bees and honey : our 40th edition illustrated catalogue & price list, of implements for bee culture with directions for their use. A. I. Root Company; Bee culture. We will furnish dipping plates, as described above, made from clear siraignt-grained maple, for any width, for 4 cents pt-r inch in width. For starters, boaras 4 or 5 incbes wide are used, and two ot them may be dipptd in the tank at once. For Sirapiiciiy sections, each board will need to be about ci?^ lucbes, and every dipping makes 4 narrow sheets. HOW TO FASTEN SHEETS'OF FUN. IN THE BKOOD FRAMES. The melted-icax plan. Set a
. Bees and honey : our 40th edition illustrated catalogue & price list, of implements for bee culture with directions for their use. A. I. Root Company; Bee culture. We will furnish dipping plates, as described above, made from clear siraignt-grained maple, for any width, for 4 cents pt-r inch in width. For starters, boaras 4 or 5 incbes wide are used, and two ot them may be dipptd in the tank at once. For Sirapiiciiy sections, each board will need to be about ci?^ lucbes, and every dipping makes 4 narrow sheets. HOW TO FASTEN SHEETS'OF FUN. IN THE BKOOD FRAMES. The melted-icax plan. Set a common small lamp in a tall box with one open side, having coarse wire cloth nailed ovt-r the top. Place on the wire cloth a cup containing Wax. Keep the wax just melted, by turning the lamp wick up or down. Now, with a pemii biush, you can put the melted wax neatly just where jou watit It. Fit a board so that it will slip into your frame just halfway, atid lay your sheet of fdn. on this, with its upper edge close against the top bar; bursh the wax along the joint, slip out the ooaid and hang the frame in a hive. After a little prac- tice you will do them quite rapidly, and think it is Just fun. The plan we prefer. If wax is mbbed hard against a piece of dry wood, at ordinary temperainres. It will adhere almost as w°li ae if put on in a melted state. Thereiore, all we have to do to lasten it in the trames, is to lay it in place, and press the edge against, the comb guide with the lingers, antil It sticks moderately. Noiv take a kniteor screw- driver, and rub it down hard. To prevent the wax from sticking to the tool, dip it in either starch or hon- ey ; we use the latter because it is handier. One corner of the tool should go clear down to the wood, at the last stroke, to make a " sure thing" of it. The tdn. should reach within ^' Inch ot the end bars, and with- in |, as a general rule, of the bottom bar. This space U neeited to allow the sheets to stretch as it is
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