. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 410 AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL December Brood Foundation—-Most Ecnomical Weight to Use By the Editor. A READER of the American Bee Journal asks what is the most economical weight of. founda- tion to use for brood-combs. It was at one time thought good economy to use only very narrow strips in the frames, just enough to insure the building of straight combs. Numerous tests, both scientific and .practical, have proven that beeswax costs the bees so much in honey that it is advisable to save as much as. FIG. 1.—The lump at the outer edge of the cell, first sta
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 410 AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL December Brood Foundation—-Most Ecnomical Weight to Use By the Editor. A READER of the American Bee Journal asks what is the most economical weight of. founda- tion to use for brood-combs. It was at one time thought good economy to use only very narrow strips in the frames, just enough to insure the building of straight combs. Numerous tests, both scientific and .practical, have proven that beeswax costs the bees so much in honey that it is advisable to save as much as. FIG. 1.—The lump at the outer edge of the cell, first stage—longitudinal section en- larged 35 diameters. possible in this line and use, not only full sheets of foundation in the brood-frames, but a weight of foun- dation that will, as nearly as practi- cable, enable the bees to build the full depth of the cells out of it. Although the bees are sometimes so hurried by the honey crop that they fail to make use of all the available in the foundation, they usually do lengthen the cells to a great extent out of the foundation. This is readily seen if we take up and examine a comb which is being built out of foundation. However, in order to ascertain how much wax is required in the founda- tion to secure the entire depth of the comb from this wax, it was necessary to make careful experiments. The. 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 [Hamilton, Ill. , etc. , Dadant & Sons]
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