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the latter gives the most beautifully finished foundation I have 

 seen, but, being flat bottomed, the bees appear to waste much 

 time in converting to the natural base ; though it must be 

 acknowledged that in doing so comb is produced that has so 

 thin a septum as to be equal to any all-natural comb. I have 

 been very favourably impressed with the Pelham foundation, 

 principally because there is no pressure on the side walls ; 

 but I suppose this might be so with all machines if thinner 

 sheets were used, so that the same need not receive sufficient 

 pressure to be driven tight into the matrice, while the same 

 thin base would be retained. There is no advantage in having 

 high side walls in super foundation, as I find the same nearly 

 always scraped off to the base before actual building is 

 commenced by the bees. Indeed, what I should consider a 

 perfect super foundation would have nothing whatever but the 

 bare base 6f the cells. 



Foundation in the brood chamber gives a great saving in 

 time under some conditions, as hereafter noted, but there are 

 times when it is an unnecessary expense, more especially when 

 the beekeeper has all the stock he requires, when he will 

 become a producer of wax instead of a consurher of that 

 article. 



How to insert Foundation in Frames and Sections. 



The original method, and one practised by the late Mr. 

 Raitt, myself, and others, is by melted wax run along the 

 sheet of foundation on both sides where it meets the top bar. 

 A board, 7 inches wide and 13 inches long, has screwed on 

 the back two strips of f -inch stuff, which project about an 

 inch over. The two projections on one side I have arranged 

 as shown (Fig. 29) with a wide-headed screw to each, enabling 

 the gauge to be regulated to a nicety. When set upon the 

 inverted frame it stands ^-inch off from the centre of the bar, 

 thus providing for the thickness of the -foundation that it may 

 hang exactly in the centre. 



