Gleanings in bee culture . A STUDY IN CELL-MAKING. Note that the cells are made independent of each other, andlthat it is the droppings cf m .i-tar in brick-laying, that seems to tumble into the interstices to fill 1907 GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 1033 ity, and most perfect adaptation to circum-stances. Wax is produced by the l)ee at agreat expenditure of labor, material, andstrength. Well-informed investigators saythat The costliness of wax to the bee, sinceit can be produced only at the expense ofmany times its own weight of honey orsugar, has led to great economy, one pound
Gleanings in bee culture . A STUDY IN CELL-MAKING. Note that the cells are made independent of each other, andlthat it is the droppings cf m .i-tar in brick-laying, that seems to tumble into the interstices to fill 1907 GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 1033 ity, and most perfect adaptation to circum-stances. Wax is produced by the l)ee at agreat expenditure of labor, material, andstrength. Well-informed investigators saythat The costliness of wax to the bee, sinceit can be produced only at the expense ofmany times its own weight of honey orsugar, has led to great economy, one poundof it being molded into 35,000 worker-cells,while others have observed 50,000 madefrom that amount. To help the bee in thiseconomy, apiarists have found it advanta-geous to use machinery which shall work thesame material over and over. As the combsbecome old they are melted, the pure waxtaken out and remodeled into thin comb-building foundations. But thisis in no sense the manufactur-ing of a new product, but anextracting, purifying, and re-modeling of the bees own choicematerial. It simply saves thebees much axduous labor thatmachinery can do easier and atless expense, when we considerthe effect on the bee. No one is fool eno
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