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1907 



THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW 



inches short, then nail two, foot-pieces 

 to opposite sides of the board, at one 

 end, allowing them to project several 

 several inches, enough to make up for 

 the shortness of the board. Don't nail 

 these pieces on very solidly at first. 

 Wind a few strands of wire around the 

 board, and cut them in two, and use 



Bunch of Wi ^ut off the Right Length. 



them. If the^' are the correct length, 

 well and good. If not, then remove 

 these pieces and move them either out, 

 or in, as the case maj"^ require, until 

 3'ou have the desired length. 



When a board of this kind is finally 

 the right length, then wund around it, 

 lengthwise, a spool of wire, or less, if 



you don't wish to use so much, and 

 then the wire may be cut in two by the 

 use of shears, the blades of which may 

 be inserted between the two pieces 

 that are nailed at one end of the board. 

 Before cutting the wire, however, th(re 

 is a very important precaution that 

 must be taken, viz., that of winding 

 string around the board and wire, in 

 several places, tying it firmly at each 

 place. If this precaution were nc^t 

 taken the wire would become a hope- 

 less tangle the moment the strands 

 were cut. The strings hold the wire 

 in place against the sides of the board, 

 and the wires may be pulled out, one 

 at a time, just as a woman can pull a 

 thread at a time from a skein of thread 

 that she has cut in twain. 



HOW TO PUT IN THE WIRES. 



In wiring a frame don't begin at a 

 hole nearest the top bar, or the bottom 

 bar. Begin at one of the central hole«, 

 saj' the one nearest the top, then go 

 across to its mate on the opposite end 

 bar, through this hole, then up to the 

 upper hole in this bar, and then back 

 across to the first upper hole in the 

 first mentioned end bar, and fasten the 

 end of the wire to the little brad that 

 has been driven in for that purpose. 

 Now take the other end of the wire and 

 thread it through the other unoccupied, 

 central hole, (the one next below the 

 first-used hole) then across to the 

 opposite hole, from there down to the 

 last hole in that end bar, and then 

 back to the last hole in the other end 

 bar, which finishes the threading. 

 Don't you see that, if you should com- 

 mence at the first hole in an end bar 

 and go back and forth to each suc- 

 cee&ing hole, you would have the whole 

 len^'" of wire to draw through the 

 holes,' vvaile, with the plan just de- 

 scribed, only half oi the length of the 

 wire has to be drawn through. 



HOW TO IMBED WIRES. 



After the frames are wired, then 

 comes the f.^stening in of the founda- 



