. Gleanings in bee culture . respect today. Notethe brood close to the top-bar. thin sheets with a cloth center. The bakeliterenders the cloth very hard and smooth witia glass-like surface. While our experimentsare not conclusive as yet, we fear that theexpense of this material will be an objec-tion; also that its odor of carbolic acid willprove offensive to the bees. Wood Base Foundation. The foundation that has given us by farthe best results is that having a base of thinwood veneer with the grain running vertic-ally. We hived a weak colony on such foun-dation in the spring of 1920. The colo
. Gleanings in bee culture . respect today. Notethe brood close to the top-bar. thin sheets with a cloth center. The bakeliterenders the cloth very hard and smooth witia glass-like surface. While our experimentsare not conclusive as yet, we fear that theexpense of this material will be an objec-tion; also that its odor of carbolic acid willprove offensive to the bees. Wood Base Foundation. The foundation that has given us by farthe best results is that having a base of thinwood veneer with the grain running vertic-ally. We hived a weak colony on such foun-dation in the spring of 1920. The colonybuilt up nicely, wintered well in 1920-1921and seemed to be normal in every respectlast season. Brood was reared close to thetop-bars. In fact, we have seen sealed broodin the row of cells adjoining the is, of course, no possibility of saggingor stretching, and the cells are not deformedin the upper part of the combs; thereforethe brood area is greatly enlarged. Thin Februaky, 1922 GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 81. A representative comb from the latest pattern wood-base foundation having the cell walls clearly are no more imperfect cells than would be found in case of, combs built on regular comb is one of twenty built during a goldenrod honey flow in September, 1921, by twenty differentcolonies. There are some irregular cells next to the top-bar because by an oversight the cells were notnot clearly defined on the wood base clear to the top-bar. top-bars and bottom-bars are possible, for,of course, the wood veneer makes the framesvery strong. Early in the season of 1921 we tried woodveneer only 1/40 of an inch thick. We foundthat this, however, has a tendency to wrin-kle in the hive, so that the combs have acorrugated appearance. We first nailed the wood veneer solidly inthe frames, but we found that unless thereis room for some expansion and contractionfrom one end-bar to the other, the woodveneer even 1/20 of an inch thick has a tenden
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