192 A Modern Bee-Farm 
thickness of the foundation that it may hang exactly in 
the centre. 
For Melting Wax, 
use a common glue pot, with a small brush or a spoon 
with its sides bent up to meet, allowing the drip to run 
down the angle, joining the foundation and frame securely. 
Remove the gauge-board while reversing and then wax 
the other side, with the frame always held at a slight 
incline, starting the wax at one end, and allowing so much 
that it will just run to the other end. Be careful that the 
wax is kept at an even temperature, over a small paraffin 
stove; if too hot it will weaken the sheet, and if too cool, 
it will not hold the foundation in place. 
Other Plans 
are such as have the top bar split nearly its whole or entire 
length to receive the sheet of foundation, when two or 
three nails or screws are driven through, holding the two 
halves together with the impressed wax between. There 
is little economy in so weakening and disfiguring one’s 
furniture permanently simply for this one preliminary 
operation, while the open cut along the top of the bar is 
the very best harbour for the wax moth, as the covering 
over the frames adds still further protection to such 
crevices. 
Abbott’s Frame 
has an ingenious device on the under side of the top bar. 
Twin grooves are cut with a thin strip left between. One 
groove takes the edge of the foundation, and a long wedge 
is then pressed into the other, holding all secure. 
As a matter of fact, I have had no difficulty in getting 
combs built out perfectly true from foundation simply 
waxed to the top bars; but the frames must be closer 
