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BEES AND BEE-KEEPING, 
into contact with different points of the same wire, 
which is thus driven down to the centre of the 
foundation. Some use the wheeled apparatus (Fig. 6o). 
The method of operating is obvious. The wheel, 
which is stellate, is grooved at the edge, so as 
to hold the wire beneath and between the cutting 
points (/>, p). As the wheel is driven, the wire, in 
short lengths, is pushed down into the body of the 
wax. 
The foundation is now very securely held, but it 
cannot be safely given in all cases without attach- 
ment to the top bar. Waxing in the usual way 
would be my preference, but some slightly turn up 
the edge of the foundation and bed it into the very 
material of the top bar by squeezing with a chisel, 
or its equivalent : this process — which occupies more 
time, requires more wax, and is less neat, than work 
done by the smelter — must clearly be performed 
before the embedding. 
Mr. Given’s press does not emboss its foundation 
between rolls, but between flat dies, and frequently 
the frames are first provided with wire, upon which j 
the plain wax sheet is laid, when the dies, which fit j 
