. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. Photo by Geo. J. Mokton Gkove. Illinois. Showing Upward Huilding of Comb Over a Crowded Hive. any that are loaded in cars and shipped out. I know when they have arrived at their des- tination that the covers had worked off in a similar manner, and if the dealer at the other end had the tools for opening cases, he should not have very much trouble in re- moving the covers nailed w'ith cement- coated nails without splitting them. In my inspection work I have to open a great many cases during the season, and it is not very often that a cover board
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. Photo by Geo. J. Mokton Gkove. Illinois. Showing Upward Huilding of Comb Over a Crowded Hive. any that are loaded in cars and shipped out. I know when they have arrived at their des- tination that the covers had worked off in a similar manner, and if the dealer at the other end had the tools for opening cases, he should not have very much trouble in re- moving the covers nailed w'ith cement- coated nails without splitting them. In my inspection work I have to open a great many cases during the season, and it is not very often that a cover board is split. Of course, the nails we are using for covers are not larger than ; Death of Bernhard Rietsche.—In the May number we announced the death of a man who has been one of the most important factors in the advancement of bee-keeping in Germany, Bernhard Rietsche. He was the inventor of a number of things of value to bee-keep- ers, but the one thing above all others that has made his name a household word in German bee-keeping circles is the Rietsche foundation press. In Ger- many conditions connected with the manufacture and use of comb founda- tion differ greatly from conditions in this country. In Germany it is the common thing for a bee-keeper to make his own foundation. Here it is the uncommon thing. To be sure, some years ago quite a number of bee-keepers made founda- tion for themselves and neighbors among American bee-keepers, but gradually this has disappeared. Foun- dation in this country is now practi- cally all made by the few foundation makers who make it on a large scale. German thrift requires that so far as possible no cent shall be paid out for anything that can be made at home. But that is not the only reason—per- haps not the chief reason—why Ger- man bee-keepers make their own foun- dation. Strange as it may seem, so much of the foundation that is sold there is adulterated, that the purchaser may generally be in doubt about what he is buying
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