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When the boardful is cut I take a super with a bot- 

 tom in it, gather up and put into it the 40 bottom-starters, 

 also the 40 top-starters, making them in a neat pile. 



Instead of using a single rule, I have for some time 

 preferred to have a rule for every cut, making a saving of 

 time. Take seven rules and lay them on the board on 

 the proper places for cutting. On the ends of the rules, 

 at each side, lay a thin strip of wood 15 inches long or 

 longer — a one-piece section without the grooves does 

 nicely — with one end of each strip tight up against the 

 end-stop. Now nail together in this position, clinching 

 the nails. You will use this with the other side up, the 

 rules above, the side-strips below (Fig. 61). Of course 

 the guide-nails are not needed with this arrangement. In 

 the picture three of the rules appear all right, but the 

 other four, which are very close together, look as if they 

 were all one. 



The cutting-board rests on a little work-table (Fig. 

 62), which is quite convenient for this and other pur- 

 poses. 



A plan for cutting that is highly commended, which 

 I have not yet had the opportunity to try, may be still 

 better. It is to use a mitre-box with cuts at the proper 

 places, and cut the foundation with a corrugated bread- 

 knife. 



The sections being folded and the foundation cut, we 

 are now ready for putting starters in the sections. This 

 is the work of Miss Wilson, and she is an expert at it. 

 After trying a number of foundation-fasteners, I have 

 found nothing with which I can do better work than with 

 the Daisy fastener. 



DIVISION OF LABOR. 



I may remark in passing that when I speak of doing 

 things it does not always mean that I do such things per- 



