. The ABC and XYZ of bee culture; a cyclopedia of everything pertaining to the care of the honey-bee; bees, hives, honey, implements, honey-plants, etc. ... Bees. 1 f a wire is too small to carry a given cur- rent of electricity, it will heat; and if the current is too great, the wire will melt. Tak- ing advantage of this principle we can, with a proper amount of current, cause the wires to heat to a temperature of, say, 130 degrees Fahr., at which point tiiey will, when i)roperly applied, sink into 11 le foundation; then when the current is cut off, of course the wire cools immediately, and l
. The ABC and XYZ of bee culture; a cyclopedia of everything pertaining to the care of the honey-bee; bees, hives, honey, implements, honey-plants, etc. ... Bees. 1 f a wire is too small to carry a given cur- rent of electricity, it will heat; and if the current is too great, the wire will melt. Tak- ing advantage of this principle we can, with a proper amount of current, cause the wires to heat to a temperature of, say, 130 degrees Fahr., at which point tiiey will, when i)roperly applied, sink into 11 le foundation; then when the current is cut off, of course the wire cools immediately, and lies iniliedded in the center of the sheet of wax. With the ordi- nary batteries it is not practic- able to heat all four of the wires at a time. Accordingly, the average person will have to heat one wire at a time, and this is done as shown in the accompanying illus- tration. Fig. 4 is a wooden handle, at each eiul of wliich are mounted two stiff wives. G the extreme ends of one strand of wire, while the free hand presses the sheet on top of the wire initil it melts its way half way through. The (current is now broken by lifting up the handle II. The other four wires are in turn treated in the same way. Where one has access to an electric-light current, by i>\itting in sufficient resistance he can heat all four wires at a time, tlius ac- complishing tlie imbedding at one and the same operation. THE WOODEN-SPLINT PLAN. The scheme of a vertical support has been l)artially solved by the use of wooden splints, or strands of w^ood. Dr. Miller has used these very extensively according to the following directions which we take from his book, " Forty Years Among the Bees ": The splints should be about 1-16 iuch square and about 1-4, inch shorter than the inside depth of the frame. A bunch of them should be tlirown into a square shallow tin pan that contains hot beeswax. They will froth up because of the moisture frying- out of them. When the frothing ceases, and the splint
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