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wiugs ;ire clipped m 

 much less time than it 

 takes to tell about it. 

 If you are timid 

 about picking up the 

 queen from the comb, 

 take a piece of soft 

 iron wire about No. 16 

 and bend a small loop 

 or eye in each end. 

 Bend the piece of 

 Avire around, forming- 

 a letter U, so that the 

 two eyes are not over 

 three-quarters of an 

 inch ajDart. Tie a rub- 

 ber band across, and 

 by holding the wire in 

 the left hand it is not 

 at all difficult to im- 

 prison the queen as 

 she walks about on the 

 comb, by setting the 

 rubber band down on 

 her back. In this po- 

 sition she may be clip- 

 ped with the scissors 

 in the right hand 

 while thus held on the 

 comb; or, after being- 

 caught, slie may be 

 picked up by tlie 

 thumb and finaer of 



A sample of natural comb M-itli the rows of cells running vertically, 

 anil two parallel cell walls liorizontal. 



Anotlier sample just like it. 



