CHAPTER VIII. 



AIDS TO SUCCESS. 



1. Foundation. 



Next to the invention of the movable-comb hive 

 nothing has tended more to the development of the 

 bee-keeping industry than the invention of comb-foun- 

 dation. When it became known that the production 

 of wax meant the consumption of a large quantity of 



Fig. 17. 



honey, as well as a large expenditure of time and energy 

 on the part of the bees, bee-keepers cast about for a 

 more economical method of comb production. Wax 

 guides were first devised — more, however, as a means 

 of guiding the bees in the building of combs from bars 

 in a regular manner than to save the honey needed for 

 the secretion of wax. 



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