304 Value of Comb, 
CHAPTER XV. 
Coms FOUNDATION. 
Every apiarist of experience knows that empty combs in 
frames, comb-guides in the sections, to tempt the bees and 
to insure the proper position of the full combs, in fact, 
combs of almost any kind or shape, are of great importance. 
So every skillful apiarist is very careful to save all drone 
comb that is cut out of the brood chamber—wherte it is 
worse than useless, as it brings with it myriads of those 
useless gormands, the drones—to kill the eggs, remove the 
brood, or extract the honey, and transfer it to the sections. 
He is equally careful to keep all his worker comb, so long 
as the cells are of proper size to domicile full-sized larva, 
and never to seil any comb, or even comb honey, unless a 
greater price makes it desirable. 
No wonder, then, if comb is so desirable, that German 
thought and Yankee ingenuity have devised means of giv- 
ing the bees at least a start in this important yet expensive 
Comb Foundation, 
work of comb-building, and hence the origin of another 
great aid to the apiarist—comb foundation (Fig. 119). 
HISTORY. 
For more than thirty years the Germans have used im- 
pressed sheets of wax as a foundation for comb, as it was 
