rollers having dies over their surface which 
stamp the exact size and shape of only the 
base of a worker bee-cell. It is made in four 
thicknesses or weights according to its de- 
signed use. The heaviest is placed in strips 
or sheets in the frames of the brood-cham- 
ber as an aid to perfectly straight combs, 
and to limit drone-cells all we can, since, 
left entirely to nature, the bees will build 
these in larger numbers. Thus we oblige 
them, in drawing out this foundation in 
brood-frames, to build cells in which worker 
bees alone shall be hatched, the amount of 
surplus honey each year depending almost 
entirely upon the hive being full to over- 
flowing of these worker bees that do all the 
storing. If there is one secret of success 
in bee-keeping, it lies in having all your 
hives very populous at the time the honey- 
flow is on„ 
Comb foundation almost as thin as paper 
is used in the section boxes also, to save the 
bees the time they would lose in making all 
that wax and to insure straight cards of 
comb. Of course, since time is money, 
among bees as among men, we shall get 
quicker and finer honey-comb and more 
honey by fastening into each little section 
a piece of the beeswax foundation about the 
size of the section itself. It may be put in 
by hand, though one may buy for twenty- 
five cents a handy little device for doing it 
faster. The bees simply draw it out into 
full-depth cells into which they will hurry 
the surplus honey. Of this for sections 
there are thirty-two sheets per pound. Each 
sheet will cut five section pieces, so that you 
will be likely to use no more than one pound 
your first year. Some bee-keepers, especial- 
ly those who try to proceed on the smallest 
scale of expense, including many beginners, 
use only small pieces of this foundation, 
say one inch wide, three inches long. These 
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