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BEES AND BEE-KEEPING. 
with holes so placed as to receive the pins and the 
ends of the wire (^, e'), which had been turned up over 
the top and bottom bars of a frame. The fixer {/) 
was now brought down to ws, when cutting-pliers 
removed the ends of the pins flush with the lower 
face of the slip. To fix the foundation, use the 
board (Fig. 52), and place the foundation precisely 
as for waxing, bringing it well up to the top bar. 
Now place the fixers as in Fig. 58, putting one near 
to each end, and driving the pins decidedly, and at 
once, through the foundation, taking care not to 
work the pins loose by any attempt at re-adjustment. 
/ / / / ./■ 
Fig. 58.— Cheshire Found.\tio.\-fixers (Scale, ^). 
A, B, Board ; tb, Top Bar of Frame ; /, /, /, Fixers. 
and the work is complete. When the frame is lifted, 
the foundation will be found to be so solidly held 
that no ordinary shaking will loosen it from the pins. 
The frames may be carried horizontally, in piles of a 
dozen, anywhere about the apiary, to be given to 
such stocks as may chance to need them. 
It will be seen at once that sagging is impossible, 
the sheet being held by thirty distinct points, and, in 
addition, that twisting or curling is entirely pre- 
vented, since each point cannot move from the centre 
of the frame width. Considerable experience has 
shown that when swarms, in hot weather, are pro- 
