. Gleanings in bee culture . e, for,of course, the wood veneer makes the framesvery strong. Early in the season of 1921 we tried woodveneer only 1/40 of an inch thick. We foundthat this, however, has a tendency to wrin-kle in the hive, so that the combs have acorrugated appearance. We first nailed the wood veneer solidly inthe frames, but we found that unless thereis room for some expansion and contractionfrom one end-bar to the other, the woodveneer even 1/20 of an inch thick has a tendency to warp. We now support thewood veneer by nailing in the center only,and we also saturate the fiber wit
. Gleanings in bee culture . e, for,of course, the wood veneer makes the framesvery strong. Early in the season of 1921 we tried woodveneer only 1/40 of an inch thick. We foundthat this, however, has a tendency to wrin-kle in the hive, so that the combs have acorrugated appearance. We first nailed the wood veneer solidly inthe frames, but we found that unless thereis room for some expansion and contractionfrom one end-bar to the other, the woodveneer even 1/20 of an inch thick has a tendency to warp. We now support thewood veneer by nailing in the center only,and we also saturate the fiber with water-proofing material, so that the wood will belittle effected by atmospheric changes. When we first started making the wood-base foundation we supj^osed that an im-pression of the base only would answer, andwe made no effort to secure a good wall ofthe cell. The bees paid very little the original base and constructed workeror drone cells as suited their , in some instances they seemed to. Sealed honey in a comb built from wood-base foundation. Such a comb could be dropped on the floor with-out danger of breaking. The honey extends not only to the thin top-bar but also clear to the bottom-bar. 82 GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE Februarv,1922 think that the wood base was the cappingof tlie comb, and they constructed queerbridging effects and irregularities makingthe combs quite unfit for use. As soon as we secured wood-base founda-tion with a well-defined cell wall we foundthat the bees built straight worker combswithout showing the slightest tendency tomake deformed or drone cells. In Septem-ber, 1921, during a goldenrod honey flow weselected 20 different colonies, removed twofull combs from each, and on one side ofeach brood-nest we put a thin top-bar framewith wood-base foundation, and on the otherside an ordinary frame with the regularfoundation, these frames in each case beingplaced between the outside comb of broodand combs of honey. In 48 hou
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