FIFTY YEARS AMONG THE BEES ]47 



With two starters of this size in a 4Vi sertion, theie should 

 be a spaee of Vg inch between the two if it were not that the 

 space is made larger by the melting away of the edges of the 

 starters when they are put in the section (Fig. 60). 



CUTTING FOUNDATION. 



I have one time and another used different plans for 

 cutting. A simple way, and one that is quite satisfactory, is 

 the following: Take a board 18x12 inclies or larger; on one 



Fig. 45 — Field of Raspberries in Bloom. 



end nail a block as a stop for the ends of the sheets of founda- 

 tion to rest against, and on one side naU foui' blocks about 2i/4 

 inches long as stops for the one edge of the foundation to rest 

 against. It is well also to nail one of these 2%-inch blocks on 

 the other side near the stop at the end, so as to make a space of 

 7% inches in which the ends of the foundation sliall be con- 

 fined, otherwise the foundation has a disagreeable habit of 

 sluing off to one side when the first cut is made at the other 

 end. Of course these stops are to be nailed on the upper sur- 

 face of the board and not on the edges. The two blocks that 

 are nailed nearest the end-stop are to be tight against it, the 



