GUIDE COMBS, AND COMB FOUNDATION. 109 



applicable for supers, and their use is yet only an expe- 

 riment. 



The first pfocess, in manufacturing the foundation, is 

 performed by dipping a sheet of galvanized iron in a 

 tall vessel of melted wax, which must neither be too hot 

 nor 'oo cold, and the dipping-plate, which for convenience 

 has a wooden handle, must be kept cold by immersing 

 it in iced water before each sheet is dipped. It is 

 dipped two or three times, until the wax coating is 

 judged to be of the requisite thickness, when the adher- 

 ing wax is stripped off from both sides. The sheets are 

 now allowed to stand a couple of days to harden, when 

 they are passed between the rollers of the machine, 



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requiring only a little trimming to be fit for use. The 

 sheets ruri from 5 to 8 square feet to the lb., the 

 thicker sheets being by the Bees most quickly made into 



