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cient in the accomplishment of their dipped into melted beeswax and three 

 purpose. or four dextrous strokes applied light- 

 Some time ago The Bee-Keeper ad- ly to the side-walls on each side of the 

 vised its readers that it had learned foundation along the top and down- 

 of a process that absolutely prevented ward towards the centre, where the 

 sagging, even in deep frames with sagging is usually apparent. This im- 

 light foundation, and then expressed parts to the side-walls a sort of wire 

 a hope that it might be able to get edge, which not only gives the addi- 

 hold of the matter and give it to the tional wax necessary to resist the 

 apiarists of the country. After con- strain of the cluster, but also afifords 



SHEET OF FOUNDATION TREATED BY THE VOEGLER METHOD. 



siderable correspondence, however, 

 with the inventor and patentee of the 

 process, hope has been abandoned. 



The process is protected by patent, 

 and is as follows: After the sheets 

 of foundation have been secured in 

 the frames, by any of the methods 

 usually employed, it is placed upon a 

 board similar to that used in imbed- 

 ding wires. A small paint brush is 



a part, at least, of the wax to be used 

 in the construction of the cell-walls. 

 Mr. O. O. Poppleton some years 

 ago secured permission to use the 

 process in a trial test, and the result 

 has proven the thing a perfect suc- 

 cess. In fact, Mr. Poppleton is en- 

 thusiastic on the subject and, like 

 The Bee-Keeper, thinks it "too bad" 

 that the fraternity should be deprived 



