36 
All small pieces of wax should be saved. Several 
pieces may be fastened together with melted wax into a 
movable-comb frame, and if such combs are given to a 
new swarm they will fill them in a very short time, and 
usually swarm the same season; or such comb may be 
given to strong colonies, and frames filled with honey 
taken instead, and should any colony, at the approach 
of winter, be deficient of stores, such frames with honey 
are “just the things” to be inserted. 
The cells or cups of comb are of two sizes. Those in 
which worker-bees are reared, are called worker-cells, 
or worker-comb ; and those in which drones are reared, 
are called drone-cells, or drone-comb. The worker- 
cells are smaller than the drone-cells ; five worker-cells 
measuring one inch in width — one square inch contain- 
ing twenty-five cells on each side. The diameter of 
such comb, ot the depth of two cells, with one bottom 
or base between, measures about seven-eighths of an 
inch. The drone-cells are wider, four cells measuring 
one inch in width, and one : quare inch contains six- 
teen cells on each side. The thickness of such comb is 
nearly one and one-fourth of an inch. Where bo h 
sizes of cells are built on one comb, small, five-sided 
intermediate cells are built between them. Those cells 
in which honey is stored are of both sizes, and vary 
greatly in depth. 
