. The bee-keeper's guide : or, Manual of the apiary. Bees. OR, MANUAL OF THE APIARY. 279 wood and dips all of them at once. He even suggests that these may be mounted on the circumference of a wheel which carries them alternately through the water and wax and auto- matically raises so as to preserve the right depth in the melted wax each time. They may be inserted in close-filling holes in a narrow board so as to be quite easily moved up and down. These are dipped till the cups are satisfactory, then all dipped once more at the end, touched to a narrow board (Fig. 131) to which they will adher
. The bee-keeper's guide : or, Manual of the apiary. Bees. OR, MANUAL OF THE APIARY. 279 wood and dips all of them at once. He even suggests that these may be mounted on the circumference of a wheel which carries them alternately through the water and wax and auto- matically raises so as to preserve the right depth in the melted wax each time. They may be inserted in close-filling holes in a narrow board so as to be quite easily moved up and down. These are dipped till the cups are satisfactory, then all dipped once more at the end, touched to a narrow board (Fig. 131) to which they will adhere. Then by wetting the tips and Pridgen Cell-Cups.—From Gewge W. York & Co. board, the dipping-sticks are easily removed one at a time (Fig. 131). Each dipping-stick is five-eighths of an inch in diameter. It commences to taper five-sixteenths of an inch from the end, tapers strongly one-eighth of an inch, then grad- ually to the end. The strips with cells adhering are one-half inch square, and are fastened in frames by a single wire nail at each end passing through the side of the frame and into the end of the square piece. Comb may be close above them. As already explained, each worker brood-cell is lined with a sec- ond cell consisting of many cocoons. By cutting off the walls. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Cook, Albert John, 1842-1916. Chicago : York
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