. Bees and honey;. Bees. FIRST LESSONS IN BEE-KEEPING 95 foundation in its place. There will always be plenty of drones reared in corners where the wax was short, or in cells that be- come enlarged by accident. One or two colonies with plenty of drones will be all we need, and we may select them to suit ourselves, and give them the drone-comb right in the center, if we choose. The annual saving by the prevention of rearing a horde of useless consumers through the use of worker-comb founda- tion is, in our opinion, sufficient to pay for the initial cost of this foundation. The reader will readi
. Bees and honey;. Bees. FIRST LESSONS IN BEE-KEEPING 95 foundation in its place. There will always be plenty of drones reared in corners where the wax was short, or in cells that be- come enlarged by accident. One or two colonies with plenty of drones will be all we need, and we may select them to suit ourselves, and give them the drone-comb right in the center, if we choose. The annual saving by the prevention of rearing a horde of useless consumers through the use of worker-comb founda- tion is, in our opinion, sufficient to pay for the initial cost of this foundation. The reader will readily comprehend by the above expla- nation why the business of comb-foundation manufacture has. Fig. 72—Honey-Comb. a, Drone-Comb; b. Intermediate Cells; c, Worker-Comb; d. Queen-Cells. gained in importance. It is a product that every bee-keeper needs, and he quickly realizes this. Comb foundation must be made of absolutely pure bees- wax. Its tenacity at certain temperatures; its malleability at blood heat, which is the heat of the hive, make its adulteration by any other compound absolutely undesirable. The bees themselves know their product from all other compounds, and adulterations of comb foundation with similar products in min- eral or vegetable waxes have always proven an entire Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Newman, Thomas Gabriel, 1833-1903. [from old catalog]; Dadant, Camille Pierre, 1851- [from old catalog] ed. Chicago, Ill. , The American bee journal
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