ADVANTAGES. 



383 



676. Good straight worker-comb, not too old, is the most 

 valuable capital of the Apiarist (443). For years, before 

 the introduction of comb-foundation, we had been in the habit 

 of buying all the worker-comb from dead colonies that we 

 could findj but we never had enough. 



Fig. 142. 



THE ORIGINAL "ROOT" MILL. 



(From Root's "A B C of Bee-Culture.") 



The consideration of the above important points, a-.id of 

 the great cost of comb to the bees (223), had long ago 

 drawn the attention of German Apiarists to the possibility 

 of manufacturing the base, or foundation, of the combi 



