150 FIFTY YEARS AMONG THE BEES 



Instead of using a single rule, I have for some time 

 preferred to have a rule for every cut. making a saving of 

 time. Take seven rules and lay them on the board on 

 the proper places for cutting. On the ends of the rules, 

 at each side, lay a thin strip of wood 15 inches long or 

 longer — a one-piece section without the grooves does 

 nicelv — with one end of each strip tight up against the 

 end-stop. Xow nail together in this position, clinching 

 the nails. You will use this with the other side up, the 

 rules above, the side-strips below (Fig. 61). Of course 

 the guide-nails are not needed with this arrangement. In 

 the picture three of the rules appear all right, but the 

 other four, which are very close together, look as if they 

 were all one. 



The cutting-board rests on a little work-table (Fig. 

 62), which is quite convenient for this and other pur- 

 poses. 



The sections being folded and the founndation cut, we 

 are now ready for putting starters in the sections. This 

 is the work of Miss Wilson and she is an expert at it. 

 After tr\'ing a number of foundation-fasteners, I have 

 found nothing with which I can do better work than with 

 the Daisy fastener. 



DIVISION OF LABOR. 



I may remark in passing that when I speak of doing 

 things it does not always mean that I do such things per- 

 sonally, for it may be that some one else does the work 

 entirely. But when any new implement is to be used or 

 new plan tried, I first carefully study it up and tr\' to 

 learn just how it ought to be used, and then I instruct 

 the one who is to make a specialty of that part of the 

 work, and in a short time the specialist far exceeds the 

 instructor. Miss Wilson can put in, I think, five starters 

 to my one ; my son Charlie, when a little chap, could dis- 

 tance me in putting together sections : and I think Philo 

 can beat me at taking sections out of supers. 



