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VOL. XX. FLINT, MICHIGAN, JAN. 15, 1907. NO. 1 



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[\^ COIL of wire for wiring frames is 

 a snare and a delusion. If it 

 could be placed upon a reel and all 

 wound off at one sitting, it might be 

 all right, but when the coil has to pass 

 through the vicissitudes of the ordin- 

 ary bee-keeper's shop, it is almost 

 certain, sooner or later, to become 

 hopelessly tangled, when the time 

 spent in trying to unravel the tangle is 

 worth ten times that of the wire. Buy 

 j'our wire on spools. In unwinding 

 the wire from a spool, put some sort of 

 a brake upon the spool to prevent the 

 wire from coming off too freely. I 

 simply drive a nail in the top of a 

 bench or board, and set the spool over 

 the nail. The weight of the spool 

 causes sufticitnt friction to put just 

 about the right amount of tension on the 

 wire. The spool is placed somedlstance 

 away, perhaps 20 or 25 feet, when the 

 wire is unwound, the continual pull- 



ing will take out about all of the kink 

 and curl. 



HOW TO CUT THE WIRE THE COKRECT 

 LENGTH. 



My plan is to wind it lengthwise 

 around a board of such a length that 

 when the skein of wire is cut in two, 

 the pieces will be exactly the right 

 length for wiring a frame. Cut off a 

 piece of wire as near the correct length 

 as can be ascertained by measuring, 

 then wire a frame with it, and see if 

 the length is correct. Remember that 

 there must be a little extra length to 

 use in winding the wire around the 

 last nail. After you have wired a few 

 frames, and know positively that you 

 have the correct length, then get a 

 board, perhaps six inches wide, and 

 half as long as the wire, less twice 

 the thickness of the board. Ai' -xcel- 

 lent way is to first cut the board a few 



