. The A B C of bee culture: a cyclopaedia of every thing pertaining to the care of the honey-bee. COMl'. I'OUNDATIOX. 1 gers, tlii-n lu'ld lieUvceii two pieces ol' wood, uiitl (Innvii out as fast as tlie rolls arc tiunt'd. Two hands, alter a little practice, will roll it, with a li)-iiicli machine, alwiut as fast as it can he dii>i>ed. The sheets roll with less trouhle from sticking, if allowed to stand a couple tif days after being dipped, as the wax hardens sliglitly by being exiiosed to the air. Tliis explains why bleached wax is hanler than the common yellow. ()ii this account, the b
. The A B C of bee culture: a cyclopaedia of every thing pertaining to the care of the honey-bee. COMl'. I'OUNDATIOX. 1 gers, tlii-n lu'ld lieUvceii two pieces ol' wood, uiitl (Innvii out as fast as tlie rolls arc tiunt'd. Two hands, alter a little practice, will roll it, with a li)-iiicli machine, alwiut as fast as it can he dii>i>ed. The sheets roll with less trouhle from sticking, if allowed to stand a couple tif days after being dipped, as the wax hardens sliglitly by being exiiosed to the air. Tliis explains why bleached wax is hanler than the common yellow. ()ii this account, the bees work the wax so much slower, that I would not advisi its use, even for box honey. TRIMMING, SyUAUING, .VXD CUTTISO THE SHEETS. As the sheets are taken from the rolls, lay them sipiarely upon each other until you have a pile 2 or S inches high. Now lay on them a board i-ut the exact size you wish the fdn. to be, and with a sharp, thin-bladcd, butcher or other knife, cut through the whole, all around the board. To prevent the knife from sticking, dip it occasionally in the starch, such as is used in rolling the sheets. To have the knife work nicely, you should have a coarse whetstone near by. with whicli to keei) the edge keen. As the board is liable to shrink, warp, and get the edges whittled off. where a great number of sheets of a particular size is wanted, we liave frames, made sharp on their edges and lined with tin. The tin is folded, and put on so that the edge of the knife does not strike it, if the blade is held in the proper position. To cut sheets 12 by IS, we have a frame made as follows : COMl! KorxnATiox. Tiie spaces are just wide enough to allow the knife to run between them. Fig. 2 is composed of the same nmnber of boards, but they are Mi wi<le, by about KJ long. Yon will observe that this allows one frame to be placed over tln' olln r, each lilting in be- Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been
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