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tongue, similar to a hollow ground razor but broad at the base. 

 Then the foundation is slit along one side to the depth of three- 

 eights of an inch to half an inch at intervals of two or three 

 inches and these pieces bent alternately up and down. Then plac- 

 ing the foundation in position in the frame the bent pieces will 

 straddle the tongue and, by means of a dampened roller, the bent 

 edges are rolled into the hollowed sides of the tongue, thus secur- 

 ing the sheet quite firmly in position. 



A still commoner way and perhaps the quickest and easiest 

 way, is to have a double groove in the top bar, one centrally located 

 to receive the foundation and the other closely cut on one side of 

 it. Then, by introducing a strip wedge triangularly shaped in cross 

 section into the second groove and pressing it home the sheet of 

 foundation is held quite firmly to the top bar. 



The foundation having been secured along the top in one of 

 these ways, the frame is returned to the form with the foundation 

 en the underside of the wires. Then by running a spur wire em- 

 bedder along the wires they are embedded in the wax and so form 

 the desired support. Care must be exercised lest the foundation 

 be cut by bearing too heavily upon the embedder. There are other 

 forms of embedders and other methods of embedding. Where a 

 large number of frames are to be prepared, for about five dollars 

 an electric embedder, fitted up with batteries, can be purchased 

 which works much more rapidly. But for the novice the first 

 method with the spur embedder serves all practical purposes. 



For fastening foundations into the sections in the supers fitted 

 up for the production of comb honey diflerent implements are used. 

 The sections come commonly in one piece and are made of basswood 

 so that they can be easily folded along transverse grooves into "box 



Fig. 9. Spur wire embedder. 



form and then fastened together by lock joints where the two ends 

 meet. To fix this last joint and square the boxes up, what is known 



