FORTY YEARS AMONG THE liEES. 87 



introducing cage having become standard articles on tlie 

 price-lists, while bottom-starters, the robber-cloth, bot- 



Fii]. 28. — Cojjgshall Brush. 



tom-board, and some other things have had from my 

 brother bee-keepers a reception of which I have 

 no reason to complain. While the tendency towards 

 something different needs to be kept in bound, it would 

 be a sad thing if no changes had been made, and we were 

 set back just where we were a quarter or a half cen- 

 tury ago.. 



GETTING COMBS BUILT DOWN TO BOTTOM-BARS. 



While UDon the subject of frames, I may as well tell 

 how I manage to have them entirely filled with straight 

 combs which are built out to the end-bars and clear down 

 to the bottom-bars, a thing I experimented upon for a 

 long time before reaching success. The foundation is cut 

 so as to make a close fit in length, and the width is about 



