. The American bee keeper. Bee culture; Honey. ii8 THE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER May,. THE BEE-KEEPING WORLD Stall Contributors: F. Greiner, Adrian Getaz Conlribulions to this department are solicited Irom all quarters ol the earth FRANCE. Deformed Foundation. Mr. Dadant says that it is an error to think that the bees can change the worker foundation into drone combs. He says that some times when mak- ing foundation the operator fails to put enough lubricant on the cylinders. Then the wax sticks to some extent to .the cylinder and is pulled upward. This makes the cells longer in the direction of the
. The American bee keeper. Bee culture; Honey. ii8 THE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER May,. THE BEE-KEEPING WORLD Stall Contributors: F. Greiner, Adrian Getaz Conlribulions to this department are solicited Irom all quarters ol the earth FRANCE. Deformed Foundation. Mr. Dadant says that it is an error to think that the bees can change the worker foundation into drone combs. He says that some times when mak- ing foundation the operator fails to put enough lubricant on the cylinders. Then the wax sticks to some extent to .the cylinder and is pulled upward. This makes the cells longer in the direction of the going through, and the elasticity of the wax easily changes the width also, at least to some ex- tent. The result is necessarily some larger cells. This may also occur when the sheet of wax is too hot when passed through the cylinders. Furthermore the wax thus stretched looses something of its strength, and will stretch more when loaded with the weight of the bees working at it. Impurity is another cause of trouble. When mixed with dirt and impurities the wax has much less strength than when pure and — Bulletin de la Suisse Ramande. The Rietsche Press. Many times in this department, something has been said about the Rietsche press, and probably many readers have wondered what it is. A description is given by Mr. Pincot in the Apiculteur, from which the fol- lowing is taken, except a few items that come from some other papers. To begin with, the Rietsche press is not a press, but what we would call here a mould. Something like the plaster moulds sold some years ago by Oliver Foster, of Indiana. Two pieces of metal or cement composi- tion are hinged together at -one side and can be shut together like a book. The corresponding faces have the im- prints of a sheet of foundation. The press is opened; enough melted wax poured on one of the pieces and the press shut immediately, so as to spread and imprint the wax. After a few seconds the wax has solidified, and the sheet ca
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