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very thin, and many bee-keepers praise it very highly. Mr. 

 Root has kept his machine abreast with the latest improve- 

 ments. Mr. Pelham has invented rolls that are made in 

 rings or sections, each ring the w^idth of a cell. Such I'olls 

 will reduce the price of machines so that all — even small 

 4ipiarists — can afford to own them. 



THE PRESS FOR FOUNDATION. 



Mr. D. A. Given, of Illinois, has given a press (Fig. 

 121) that stamps the sheets by plates and not by rolls, 



Fig. 121. 



which, at present, is giving nearly if not quite as good sat- 

 isfaction as the improved roller machines. This shuts up 

 like a book and the wax sheets, instead of passing between 

 carved metal rollers, are stamped by a press after being 

 placed in position. The advantages of this press, as claimed 

 by its friends, are that the foundation has the requisites 

 already referred to, par excellence, that it is easily and rap- 

 idly worked, and that foundation can at once be pressed 



