194 A Modern Bee-Farm 
wires running close to the frame ends and top bar. 
Horizontal wires are threaded through holes pierced in 
the end bars only, and in this way the combs are finished 
as true and flat as boards. (Figs. 22 A, B, C, D). 
The Commercial frame has five parallel wires ; the 
Standard four wires ; and the shallow extracting frame has 
three. As a rule, amateurs use an insufficient number of 
wires. ; 
Fine tinned wire is used, and the starting point and 
finish should be carefully fastened, the ends being wound 
round a tack, which is then driven home, holding all 
securely. See that all the wires are drawn tight; place 
the sheet of foundation on your block; the wired frame 
upon that, and now press the wires into the mid-rib. 
Various instruments are used for the purpose, the Woiblet 
Embedder being the best, but a 
Simple Embedder 
can be made from a common nail filed up round at the 
point, with a slight indentation to run over the wire, 
which can be used at a rapid rate with a convenient 
handle. If the instrument is used cold the point must be 
frequently passed over a cloth saturated with oil. I prefer 
to use the wheel embedder with hot water only, and have 
used no other plan for many years, always having an 
assistant to warm the sheets as worked in. 
Even new foundation may require warming before the 
wires are fixed ; and no old foundation should be used 
without carefully turning before a fire. 
Mr. A. I. Root, editor of Gleanings, and others in 
America, have been quite successful in the use of an 
electrical battery on a simple scale, and they find the 
process of embedding the wires thereby far more rapid 
and satisfactory than hitherto. 
