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The next step was the production of casts or moulds 

 with which the first sheets of foundation were pro- 

 duced. The late Frank Cheshire in his great work 

 records that a swarm, hived upon ten of these sheets 

 of foundation, in sixty-two hours from the time of 

 hiving converted them into perfect combs. This 

 method of producing foundation was tedious and slow 

 work, and it was before long superseded by elaborate 

 machinery. 



The first foundation machine was invented by a 



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German in 1857, but it was left to Mr. A. I. Eoot in 

 America to make the manufacture of these machines a 

 commercial success. The first foundation mill used in 

 America was in 1861, and two years later saw their 

 introduction into Great Britain, Messrs. Eaitt in Scot- 

 . land and Neighbour in England being the first to manu- 

 facture foundation for the market. There was, and still 

 is, much complaint respecting the difficulty of obtain- 

 ing uniformly successful results, both by producing 



