82 A Modern Bee- Farm 



warm room, or manipulating house, first laying a sheet of paper on 

 the table whereon the tapes are to be arranged, with the frames on 

 those, so that all is in readiness for tying as soon as the combs are 

 fitted. While it is not absolutely necessary that the combs be 

 fitted in just the same way up as they were built, it is not desirable 

 to have them inverted, but to save material it is often advisable 

 to put them in on end, or half inverted, as I have done for many 

 years past. Certainly there is the brood to handle if transferred 

 before the twenty-one days have expired, but with ordinary care 

 this is not damaged, except where the knife cuts a straight line, and 

 that is far preferable to having the combs full of honey. 



