. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 398 plenty of time that he can devote to working with the bees every other day. With proper management the "•sag- ging " that we hear so much about can be readily put up with, and will do no material injury, but the warping, twist- ing and kinking is the trouble which we must seek to obviate. This season I found that to mash a thin strip of wood about ^ inch wide onto the bottom of sheet (which is cut 1*4 inches short in the Langstroth frame) would prevent waving or warping ; but then one end would move out or the frame one way, while the ot
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 398 plenty of time that he can devote to working with the bees every other day. With proper management the "•sag- ging " that we hear so much about can be readily put up with, and will do no material injury, but the warping, twist- ing and kinking is the trouble which we must seek to obviate. This season I found that to mash a thin strip of wood about ^ inch wide onto the bottom of sheet (which is cut 1*4 inches short in the Langstroth frame) would prevent waving or warping ; but then one end would move out or the frame one way, while the other end went the opposite way. Then I cut a slot 3-16 of an inch wide and 2 inches long in the center of the lower end of the end bar, and let these stiffeners run into them. This was all right early in the season, but later when the bees began to gather propolis more profusely, of course, they glued these ends fast in the slots, just as I feared they would when I first got the thought. I will recommend this method to those who are not in a very gluey location and for swarms that issue early, or when honey is plenty in the fields. I have not experimented with it as much as I mean to another season. I have reference entirely to the Wag- ner or Perrine foundation as made on Novice's machine, and also to the Dun- ham foundation, which I am testing on a large scale to satisfy myself of the comparative merits between it and the old style. The flat-bottomed wired foundation I leave out of the list, as its price is, in my opinion, beyond the practicability of its use, and I do not as yet understand that the point of the queen avoiding the wired cells and these wires destroying the brood if she does not, to be a settled problem. I have not tried it. I think that if foun- dation is made just right, of pure wax, and the conditions in the apiary are also right, that the bees will thin the base is certain, and that an expert will have trouble to find out whether any foundation was used o
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