. The American bee keeper. Bee culture; Honey. ,04. THE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER. 251 BEE AS A SIGN PAINTER. withdrawn from the hive and that may be emptied of their honey by a /ork Directed So As to Form Let- centrifugal machine. A pure and lim- ters of the Honey-comb. pid honey is thus obtained with sur- prising rapidity and without breaking Occasionally there is to be seen at the combs, which are replaced in the jricultural fairs and similar institu- hives to be filled anew by the bees, ons honeycomb worked into the It is sufficient, then, to suspend these lape of inscriptions or other designs,
. The American bee keeper. Bee culture; Honey. ,04. THE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER. 251 BEE AS A SIGN PAINTER. withdrawn from the hive and that may be emptied of their honey by a /ork Directed So As to Form Let- centrifugal machine. A pure and lim- ters of the Honey-comb. pid honey is thus obtained with sur- prising rapidity and without breaking Occasionally there is to be seen at the combs, which are replaced in the jricultural fairs and similar institu- hives to be filled anew by the bees, ons honeycomb worked into the It is sufficient, then, to suspend these lape of inscriptions or other designs, sheets of wax in a hive to cause the .ccording to a French journal de- bees to utilize them as a foundation 3ted to natural science, the letters for the lateral cell-walls. They must, lat form these inscriptions are really however, be made of absolutely pure lade entirely by the bees, and are wax; if not, they are torn to pieces lied with honey by them only. But by the bees and thrown out of the ley are not proof either of art or of hive. This custom of bees, of follow- itelligence, for the bees blindly fol- ing the bee-keeper's indications, is )wed the will of their master, to utilized to make them build their 'horn the entire credit is due. He combs in all sorts of odd shapes. It nderstood how to choose the mo- is necessary only to fix strips of mold- lent when they felt the imperative ed wax perpendicularly on a plank,. FIG. A. FIG. B. FIG. C. eed of building cells to hold their recious product, and to oblige them ly an adroit trick to give to their con- tructions the shape that he wished to mpose. It is by the use of molded ax that this is done; but what is nolded wax? It is wax in thin sheets m which are stamped impressions laving the shape of the bottoms of loneycombed cells (generally known ,s "comb-foundation" or simply 'foundation"). This wax has done nuch for the progress of modern api- :ulture. It was invented in 1857 after tiany trials by Jean Mehring
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