ADVANTAGES. 



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676. Good straight worker-comb, not too old, is the most 

 valuable capital of the Apiarist (442). For years, before 

 the introduction of comb-foundation, we had been in the habit 

 of buying all the worker-comb from dead colonies that we 

 could findj but we never had enough. 



Fig. 142. 



THE ORIGINAL "BOOT" MILL. 



(From Root's "A B C ot Bee-Culture.") 



The consideration of the above important points, a'.id of 

 the great cost of comb to the bees (233), had long ago 

 drawn the attention of German Apiarists to the possibility 

 of manufacturing the base, or foundation, of the comb. 



