Gleanings in bee culture . s are usu-ally chosen for tliis purpose. Second, itdoes not overcome the antipathy of beesagainst drawing out foundation. Concern-ing bait sections, while they evidently havesome influence in inducing bees to entersections, the incentive is not strong enoughto outweigh their antipathies; hence it occa-sionally happens that the bait sections arethe only ones in the super that are tins case the others present a forlorn anddilapidated appearance as the result of anattempt on the part of the bees to removethe foundation as so much waste fact, coup
Gleanings in bee culture . s are usu-ally chosen for tliis purpose. Second, itdoes not overcome the antipathy of beesagainst drawing out foundation. Concern-ing bait sections, while they evidently havesome influence in inducing bees to entersections, the incentive is not strong enoughto outweigh their antipathies; hence it occa-sionally happens that the bait sections arethe only ones in the super that are tins case the others present a forlorn anddilapidated appearance as the result of anattempt on the part of the bees to removethe foundation as so much waste fact, coupled with the knowledge tliatfancy and No. 1 honey are seldom found inbait sections, is sufficient to prohibit theiruse. After testing each of these methods inturn, we discarded them both as being in-effieient, ineffective, and totally inadequateto our needs. ON THE BIGHT TRACK. Being thus thrown upon our own re-sources we began to cast about to discoversome method that would enable us to over- 80(5 GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. Apiary of T. Slapleton, Gwinear, Hayle, England. Mr. Stapleton also has an outyard. In both apiarieshe uses strictly up-to-date hives and fixtures. come these seemingly insurmountable ob-stacles. At tliis stage, however, the beejournals were discussing, pro and con, theadvantages of using full sheets of partlydrawn comb in all the sections. Thoughconvinced of the soundness of the theory,we were no nearer the coveted goal, forwant of a practical method of securing thesecombs and fitting them into sections. Atthis time, however, the Root Co. being, asusual, awake to the needs of the hour, wereexperimenting with machinery for the man-ufacture of partly drawn combs, of a sizeto fill completely a 4^/4 section. THE PROOF OF THE PUDDING. After securing a sample, and finding itentirely satisfactory, we immediately order-ed enough to fill 2000 sections; and hayinglost no time in putting them on the hiveswe anxiously awaited results. We did nothave long to wait, howev
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