. 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. MANNER OF IMBEDDING THE WIKE IN THE FDN. We have been doing this with a heated iron, as shown in the cut, but have just found that a com- mon carpet-stretcher is better andfiuitker. It is not heated, but the wires are simply pressed into tbc wax by the points. We can sell a carpet-stretcher, handled ready for use, for c; by mail, 25 c. Dip the points in starch, when using. PRICES OF THE WIRED FRAMES, PER HUNDRED. Frames ti
. 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. MANNER OF IMBEDDING THE WIKE IN THE FDN. We have been doing this with a heated iron, as shown in the cut, but have just found that a com- mon carpet-stretcher is better andfiuitker. It is not heated, but the wires are simply pressed into tbc wax by the points. We can sell a carpet-stretcher, handled ready for use, for c; by mail, 25 c. Dip the points in starch, when using. PRICES OF THE WIRED FRAMES, PER HUNDRED. Frames tilled with fdn. ready to hang in the hive (L. size) $18 00 Frames without fdn., as shown in the cut— 5 00 The same in the flat, wood pierced for the wires, wire and tin bars included 4 00 Per thousand, $:!.").()(). For any other than the L. frames, add J4 to above prices. All-wood frs., $ per lUO less than above. No. 30, tinned wire, per lb. (enough for 175 frames), (by mail, 18 c. extra) 25 The same in 1 oz. coils, each, 3 c.; if sent by mail, add 2 c. each extra. For unbroken coils, as they come from the factory, weighing from 5 to 10 lbs. each, 20c per lb. Bars of folded tin, per hundred, 40c; per 1000 $3 50 CAELIN'C FDN. CUTTEE. Small si/e, with tin wheel, lOc; larjre size, with steel wheel, 7!ic. If wanted by mail, add '2c. for the former, and .^c. for the latter. Altlioujih these are very con- venient for cuttinsT a gre it number of small pieces, our hands have rather preferred lor larfier worli, to cut a board the size wanted, and lay it on a pile of a dozen sheets or more, then with a vci-}/ sharp, round pointed,butcher knife, tlicy cut with repeated strolces through the whole at once, clear round the board. If the wax is neither too cold nor too hot, you can, with practice, do it rapidly and nicely. None of the srraps need be wasted, (or you can use, in the section boxes. pieces of all shapes and sizes. Round-pointed butch- er knife (flue steel), as above, 10
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