. Bees and honey;. Bees. 92 BEES AND HONEY; OR given them. For brood-combs, sheets measuring about six square feet to the pound prove best, as the bees find in them almost enough wax to build the entire comb, especially if it is given them a little ahead of need, at a time when they have leisure to manipulate it and draw it out. The experiments of Foloppe Freres, of Champosoult, France, have proven that in drawing out the foundation into comb, the bees manipulate the wax in the same way that the potter handles clay to make a. Fig. 68—Comb Foundation Mill. vase, by a "repoussage" whic
. Bees and honey;. Bees. 92 BEES AND HONEY; OR given them. For brood-combs, sheets measuring about six square feet to the pound prove best, as the bees find in them almost enough wax to build the entire comb, especially if it is given them a little ahead of need, at a time when they have leisure to manipulate it and draw it out. The experiments of Foloppe Freres, of Champosoult, France, have proven that in drawing out the foundation into comb, the bees manipulate the wax in the same way that the potter handles clay to make a. Fig. 68—Comb Foundation Mill. vase, by a "repoussage" which forces the wax towards the outer edge of the cell in a circular way. This is another evi- dence of the bees' intelligence, for the cells are thereby made much stronger than if the drawing of the wax had been made towards the outer edge without any circular manipulation. In the same manner, if the potter had made his vase by pushing the clay outwar4 without the circular rotation, the vase would break much more readily. Figs. 69 and 70 show the section of a sheet of medium comb foundation as given to the bees and as worked by them out of the wax it contains, a, b, and d, show the manner in which the work is begun, continuing and forcing out the wax towards the edge through the different shapes assumed con- seutively at c, e, f, and g. For surplus honey, in the sections, very thin sheets of comb foundation are supplied to the bees, and of the very best grade of light-colored beeswax, for it is important that the combs should be thin and avoid the "fish-bone" toughness of a heavy artificial midrib. As light sheets as 13 and 14 square feet to the pound are now used in sections. As we have already stated, the foundation measuring about six square feet to the pound, is best for brood-combs. Experi-. 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
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