Note 15 — MANIPULATION AND USES OF BAR AND FRAME HIVES.

They should be first dismembered from the comb by running a penknife between.

[16] Artificial comb may be advantageously used, especially if a little time (say a couple of days) be allowed to elapse before it is put into the hive; because, at first, so eager is a swarm to push forward the work of comb-building, that the sheets are liable to become mutilated. For guide-comb, cut the sheets in strips of rather more than an inch in depth, and fix them as mentioned at page 154.