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COMB-FOUNDATION. 



when the necessary implements are ready at hand. So bees will gather 

 honey and develop much more rapidly when they have comb ready at 

 hand when the harvest opens. Sometimes, if left to themselves, they build 

 so much drone comb that, unless the hives are watched and the drone 

 comb removed, a large lot of useless drones are reared at quite a cost of 

 time and honey. 



Hence beekeepers have long felt the need of some way of 

 furnishing hives with comb already built. Attempts were made, 

 but not until recently was a machine perfected which fully answered 

 the purpose of making artificial comb-foundation. By it sheets 



COMB-FOTTNPATTON MACHINE. 



of pure wax are impressed with the exact shape of the bottoms 

 and beginning of the side-walls of the cells. Bees readily accept them 



