BEES AND BEE-KEEPING. 
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given to casts, will be filled out with beautiful and 
most useful slabs of worker-cells only. 
The application of the molten beeswax is much facili- 
tated by a simple device readily made out of an ordinary 
spoon, by turning up the sides of the bowl, as indicated 
in Fig. 45, so as to form a narrow trough with a pointed 
end, which can be brought close to the spot where the 
w'ax should be placed. 
Those who have many stocks will find an apparatus 
commonly called a “wax-smelter” of frequent service. 
Fig. 46.— Cheshire’s Wax-smelter— Section (Scale, i). 
A, Smelter ; w, w, Water-chamber ; co, Cover ; fh, Feedhole for Wax ; sp. Spout; 
sc, Spout-cover ; j, Jacket to Spout ; p, Guard ; cw, Clearing Wire. B, Jacket 
on Spout in situ — Letterings as before. 
indeed, indispensable, if methods are followed which 
require the use of liquid wax. The construction 
given in the guide-books is possessed of very grave 
faults, which I have remedied in the smelter seen 
in section. Fig. 46. An oval form, in plan^ is, 
perhaps, best both for inner and outer chambers, 
while the spout-jacket (/) is shaped like the bow of a 
ship. In making it, the wax-chamber is separately 
completed, and the water-box made entire, save that 
the covers [co, sc) are not added. The wax-chamber 
