Press for Foundation. 



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each ring the width of a cell. Such rolls, if they work well, 

 and I see no reason why they should not, will reduce the price 

 of machines so that all — even small apiarists — can afford to 

 own them. 



THE PRESS FOE FOUNDATION. 



Mr. D. A. Given, of Illinois, has given a press (Fig. 104) 

 that stamps the sheets by plates and not by rolls, which, at 



Fig. 104. 



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present, is giving better satisfaction than even the improved 

 roller machines. This shuts up like a book and the wax sheets, 

 instead of passing between carved metal rollers, are stamped 

 by a press after being placed in position. The advantages of 

 this press as claimed by its friends — which seem to number all 

 who have used it — are that the foundation has the requisites 

 already referred . to, par excellence, that it is easily and 

 rapidly worked, and that foundation can at once be pressed 

 into the wired frames. Rubber plates have also been made 

 but as yet have not won general favor or acceptance. All of 

 these improved machines give us foundation of exquisite 

 mold and with such rapidity that it can be made cheap and 



