. The ABC and XYZ of bee culture; a cyclopedia of everything pertaining to the care of the honey-bee; bees, hives, honey, implements, honey-plants, etc. ... Bees. COMB FOUXDATIOX, 101 COMB FOUXDATIOX. bar of the frames. So if a frame be given when lit- tle storingris going- on, the 'bees will deliberately dig away the foundation at the bottom; and even if it has been built down, but the cells not very fully drawn out, they will do more or less at gnawing a l^ass ige. To make a success the frames should be given at a time when work goes on uninterrupttdiy, until full-depth cells reach the botto
. The ABC and XYZ of bee culture; a cyclopedia of everything pertaining to the care of the honey-bee; bees, hives, honey, implements, honey-plants, etc. ... Bees. COMB FOUXDATIOX, 101 COMB FOUXDATIOX. bar of the frames. So if a frame be given when lit- tle storingris going- on, the 'bees will deliberately dig away the foundation at the bottom; and even if it has been built down, but the cells not very fully drawn out, they will do more or less at gnawing a l^ass ige. To make a success the frames should be given at a time when work goes on uninterrupttdiy, until full-depth cells reach the bottom-bar. Under some conditions the bees will gnaw around the wooden stays, as shown by the illustration, p. 100. This occms more partic- ularly when bees have not much to do: and when they run across any thing which is fibrous they will at such times show a dispo- to remove the object. The suggestion has been made that in no case should the splints be allowed to project beyond the edge of the foundation: or, bet- ter still, the sheet should reach clear to the bottom-bar. Other devices have been used, such as paper imbedded in the center of the foun- dation: but this is very objectionable be- cause the bees soon discover that this is a foreign substance, and proceed to tear out the paper bit by bit, utterly ruining the foundation. They do not altcays do this; but sooner or later they will; when they have nothing else to do tliey will begin to tear out the paper, imagining, peihaps, that the fiber is a part of the silken gallery of the moth-worm. FASTENING FOUNDATION TO THE TOP-BARS OF BROOD-FRAMES. After the wires have been imbedded in. say, 100 frames, the top edge of the foimda- tion is fastened to the top-bars, either with the Van Deusen wax-tube or double-groove wedge plan shown next. This makes use of a top-bar with two giooves and a wedge. top-bar. In this groove is inserted the sheet of foundation, as at D. The wedge-shaped strip of wo(:d B is then driven into the o
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