PRACTICAL BEEKEEPING 45 
tongue, similar to a hollow ground razor but broad at the base. 
Then the foundation is slit along one side to the depth of three- 
eights of an inch to half an inch at intervals of two or three 
inches and these pieces bent alternately up and down. Then plac- 
ing the foundation in position in the frame the bent pieces will 
-Straddle the tongue and, by means of a dampened roller, the bent 
edges are rolled into the hollowed sides of the tongue, thus secur- 
ing the sheet quite firmly in position. 
A still commoner way and perhaps the quickest and easiest 
way, is to have a double groove in the top bar, one centrally located 
to receive the foundation and the other closely cut on one side of 
it. Then, by introducing a strip wedge triangularly shaped in cross 
section into the second groove and pressing it home the sheet of 
foundation is held quite firmly to the top bar. 
The foundation having been secured along the top in one of 
these ways, the frame is returned to the form with the foundation 
en the underside of the wires. Then by running a spur wire em- 
bedder along the wires they are embedded in the wax and so form 
the desired support. Care must be exercised lest the foundation 
be cut by bearing too heavily upon the embedder. There are other 
forms of embedders and other methods of embedding. Where a 
large number of frames are to be prepared, for about five dollars 
an electric embedder, fitted up with batteries, can be purchased 
which works much more rapidly. But for the novice the first 
method with the spur embedder serves all practical purposes. 
For fastening foundations into the sections in the supers fitted 
up for the production of comb honey diflerent implements are used. 
The sections come commonly in one piece and are made of basswood 
so that they can be easily folded along transverse grooves into box 
Fig. 9—Spur wire embedder. 
form and then fastened together by lock joints where the two ends 
meet. To fix this last joint and square the boxes up, what is known 
