. The A B C of bee culture: a cyclopaedia of every thing pertaining to the care of the honey-bee. i;; live lieavy coniljs an' almut as many as oiic cares to cairy at diu'c. The coiiilis slaiiild liaiiR on metal lalibets tlie same as tliey do | ill the hive, to avoid (Miisliiiis lioes wlien they are set in hastily. Vimr tin-siiiitli should lie alile to make yon oiu' like tlie above, for alioiit SLii"). COXXIB FOUSTDATIOVr. .Since the in- 1 induction nt foinidatinn. williintlie i>ast few years, many ditlicnlt points have been solved completely; snch as. how to insure straight
. The A B C of bee culture: a cyclopaedia of every thing pertaining to the care of the honey-bee. i;; live lieavy coniljs an' almut as many as oiic cares to cairy at diu'c. The coiiilis slaiiild liaiiR on metal lalibets tlie same as tliey do | ill the hive, to avoid (Miisliiiis lioes wlien they are set in hastily. Vimr tin-siiiitli should lie alile to make yon oiu' like tlie above, for alioiit SLii"). COXXIB FOUSTDATIOVr. .Since the in- 1 induction nt foinidatinn. williintlie i>ast few years, many ditlicnlt points have been solved completely; snch as. how to insure straight Climbs, how to insiu'e all worker-comb or all ilrone-conib. as the case may be. and how to Inniish the bees with the wax they need without being obliged to secrete it by the consiiiniition of honey. It is so simple a matter to make a practical test of it by lianging a piece in a hive when honey is coniing in. that I think I may lie excused from describing the way in which the bees use it, at any great length. Xeither will it be needful to dwell on the successive steps by which it was discovered, and brought to its present state of perfection. The first mention we have of wax foundations that were accepted l>y the bees, was published in a (iernian bee-journal as far back as Mr. J. Mehring. of Fraiikinthal. (ieiiiiany. if I am correct, seems to have been the original inventor. For nearly i;il years the matter seems to have slumbered, although different ones at different times, among whom was our friend Wagner, took it up, made some improvements, and dropped it again. The sheets made in both England and (lermany had no side-walls, but simply inilentations. Mr. Wagner added shallow side-walls, making it much more like nat- ural comb. I'ntil recently it was all made with a pair of plates; and even yet the (tiven press is used and liked by some; but it did not reiiuire much wisdom to decide that such an article, if wanted in large quantities, should be rolled out by machi
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