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operations, much honey is wasted as food to enable 
the wax-workers to replace that heat which is con- 
stantly leaking through the super walls. 
Bees are quite unable to walk upon the under surface 
of damp glass, and only do so with difficulty if it be 
dry (page 125, Vol. I.), so that they cannot, under any 
circumstances, support from a glass dome the weight 
of a curtain of wax-workers. Should our glass super 
take this or any comparable form, combs or foundation 
must be attached to give the bees foothold. Cut 
some nice, clean pieces of comb, then warm the glass 
over a lamp, when the attachment may be made by 
simply pressing the pieces where it is desired they 
should remain. They adhere with sufficient firmness, 
and the bees soon make them secure. If foundation 
be used, it should have been bleached by exposure 
to light during several months, or its edge will match 
badly with the rest. The comb or foundation may 
be arranged radially or in some simple pattern, so 
as to improve the appearance of the super when 
complete, and, by the aid of foundation, simple and 
very pleasing devices are producible within supers 
with plate-glass tops. Deep supers are not adopted 
so readily as sections, because of the distance the first 
workers have to separate themselves from the main 
body. Mr. Fox conquered this by using supers 
telescopic in structure. These were constantly in- 
creased in perpendicular height, so that the bees were 
kept struggling to fill the gap formed by the repeated 
carrying up of the roof. 
When all is completed, the complexity of the form 
of the comb, and the weight of the super, often 
