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anyhow, who will devote sufficient time to fix it by 
molten wax, and then glue to it the finest sewing- 
silk, in the manner described. While watching these 
experiments, a method of procedure occurred to me 
which I venture to think has been inadequately under- 
stood by British bee-keepers, or it would have been 
far more extensively adopted. If a sheet of founda- 
tion be drawn out on one side, much in advance of 
the other, its free points will curl towards the less 
complete side, because drawing out involves some 
expansion, as we have already seen. It was clear 
to me, that not only drooping needed preventing, but 
curling also. 
'p — I — rn — I n‘ 
p p P P V V 
U'S 
Fig. 57.— Tool for Making Fixers (Scale, i). 
ws, Wooden Strip, Perforated ; /, Fixer ; p, p, Pin.s. 
I cut No. 18 tinned wire into lengths {/, Fig. 57) 
about 2in. greater than the depth of the frame, and 
then soldered to each, by their heads, six common 
pins {p, p, p). These were easily placed for the 
soldering by making, in a waste board, a coarse saw- 
cut for the wire, and six finer ones, ijin. apart, and 
across the first, in which to lay the pins, the heads 
1 of which were wetted with solution of chloride of 
I zinc and sal ammoniac, and then touched with a 
I copper bit and a particle of solder. Next, a wooden 
\ slip {ws), a bare .\in. thick, was prepared, and pierced 
