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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 



Fig. 131. 



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 



