18 The Townsend Bee Book 
putting in foundation will disappear. With either method the 
foundation can be made to hang in the center providing time 
enough is spent on the work. 
THE MELTED-WAX PLAN OF FASTENING FOUNDATION 
I am very sure of one thing, and that is, that better work can 
be done with the melted-wax plan of fastening foundation into 
sections than with the hot-plate machines. One bad feature about 
the melted-wax plan, however, is having the melted wax around. 
We have never put in enough foundation on the melted-wax plan 
to acquire the dexterity that we should. I presume some will 
always use one plan and others the other. 
Last summer we put in some foundation on the Yoder plan 
described in the April 1st issue of 1908. As will be remembered, 
the Yoder plan consists in fastening the foundation with melted 
wax, not only across the top of the section but also one-third of 
the way down the sides from the top. Every section put up in 
this way produced a perfect section of honey so far as the founda- 
tion was concerned. With foundation fastened one-third of the 
way down the side of the section, most of it is apt to be a little 
curved, due to the expansion when it is warmed up by the bees. 
Some of the sheets were curved perhaps half an inch; but when 
the honey was finished there was nothing to indicate that the 
foundation had not been in the center of the section. Somehow I 
can not help thinking that there would have been a little more 
work done in the supers if the foundation could have been kept 
true in the center. 
About the only tools needed for putting in foundation on the 
Yoder plan is a wax-tube. There should be a square block a trifle 
less than half the thickness of the section, and just large enough 
to fit inside. This block should be perfectly square, as the section 
must be held square when putting in the foundation. The block 
should be nailed to a thin board a little larger, and, for conveni- 
ence, a handle should be nailed to the back of it. The foundation 
must be accurately cut just the size of the inside of the section, 
less the 14-inch space at the bottom. To put in the foundation, 
the section should be placed over the block before mentioned, and 
the sheet of foundation put in place pushed close to the top. The 
block should be held in such position as to form a trough made 
by the sheet of foundation and the side of the section, and then 
some melted wax dropped at a point one-third of the distance 
from the top of the section now held at the bottom. By turning 
the block around, the wax can be made to run down and around 
