. Bees for pleasure and profit; a guide to the manipulation of bees, the production of honey, and the general management of the apiary. Bees. HOW TO MAKE A STAET IN BEE-KEEPING. 27 draw out thesft side walls when the foundation is given them. Tn some fovindation the bases of the cells are made flat; hence it is known as " flat-bottomed foundation" : it is used princi- pally in supers, but the bees do not seem to take to it so readily as to the natural-based sort, and so, though it can be rolled somewhat thinner, it is not to be recommended to the tyro. Foundation for the stock hive i
. Bees for pleasure and profit; a guide to the manipulation of bees, the production of honey, and the general management of the apiary. Bees. HOW TO MAKE A STAET IN BEE-KEEPING. 27 draw out thesft side walls when the foundation is given them. Tn some fovindation the bases of the cells are made flat; hence it is known as " flat-bottomed foundation" : it is used princi- pally in supers, but the bees do not seem to take to it so readily as to the natural-based sort, and so, though it can be rolled somewhat thinner, it is not to be recommended to the tyro. Foundation for the stock hive is now usually made in two thicknesses, the first being that most generally Used, of which about sis sheets cut for use in the standard frame weigh. one pound, and the second and thinner foundation intended for wiring into frames, about nine sheets of which go to the pound. The advantages of wiring foundation into the frames are very great, as we thereby obtain perfectly straight combs, and can use a thinner make of foundation, which, though a little dearer by the pound, is much cheaper in use when we consider the extra number of sheets in the pound. 'For ex- tracting, too, wired frames are invaluable, owing to the extra strength given to the combs by the wires which run through them. I have had beautifully straight combs built in the brood nests of hives in wired frames filled with foundation so thin that sixteen sheets went to the pound. Why Foundation is used. Why we should use foundation instead of letting bees build comb for themselves unaided is the question which will probably occur to the reader's mind. The two principal reasons are that bees take a long time to build comb and use a good deal of honey in doing it—though they do not use nearly so much as was thought at one time, as Simmins and others have clearly demonstrated. Simmins states that 6-| lbs. of honey are consumed in producing. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may ha
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