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sale at a much less price than white honey. 

 Most producers will also have more leisure 

 at this time of year as the rush of the sea- 

 son will be over. 



I think a greater advantage will be, in 

 having supers of drawn combs, to place at 

 once upon all colonies that are ready at the 

 begining of the white honey flow the 

 ensuing year; instead of having to wait un- 

 til such time as the bees could then do the 

 work. 



In the December Review, friend Bal- 

 dridge in speaking about drawn combs, has 

 this to say. " These combs were simply 

 drawn out on foundation in full sized sheets, 

 and then cut to proper size and transferred 

 to the section. The sheets were of the same 

 size as those used for brood frames, and 

 this, in my opinion, is the only practical 

 way to secure such combs to advantage, and 

 properly drawn out for comb honey. " 

 Friend Baldridge may be right in his 

 " opinion. " I have never been able to get 

 myself to like the plan " a little bit, " and I 

 have tried it to some extent. Have now 

 abandoned it altogether. The plan causes 

 too much extra work, as compared with 

 having the combs drawn out on foun- 

 dation right in the sections; with only one in- 

 dividual handling of the foundation or sec- 

 tions until filled with honey. I find the bees 

 will occupy the supers, and draw out the 

 foundation in sections by my method as giv- 

 en above, just as promptly as on full sized 

 sheets, and save the very careful work 

 (which only an expert can properly do ) 

 necessary to cut up the full sheets of comb 

 and fit them into the sections. 



In conclusion, I want to say right here, I 

 perfectly agree wiih friend Baldridge where 

 he says, " A few colonies in the right con- 

 dition, and with the proper manipulation, 

 will supply a large apiary with all the drawn 

 combs for surplus honey that the bees can 

 seal properly. " 



WiLSONViLLE, Ont. Mar. 8, 1897. 



Accompaningthe foregoing was a private 

 letter from which I make the following 

 extract:— 



Friend Hutchinson — I have just been 

 reading the Feb. Review ( a very interesting 

 issue, by the way ) brought from the office 

 this afternoon. 



After reading Bro. Heddou's article, and 

 your comments on the same, 1 have decid- 

 ed to send you an article which I prepared 

 some time ago; but, as it is new work writ- 

 ing for publication, I thought it might not 



be of any value, hence delayed sending it. 



I have been practicing for years the very 

 plan you refer to in your comments where 

 you say "the place in which foundation 

 will eventually be drawn out for comb hon- 

 ey is in the sections themselves. " 



I have on hand now, in a dark room, up 

 stairs, several piles of supers of drawn 

 comb. I wish you could see how beautiful 

 they look. They were drawn out from the 

 buckwheat flow, also enough more which 

 were used to supply one super of drawn 

 combs to each of the BO colonies, just before 

 loading on the wagon to take to a better 

 pasturage last fall. 



I hope I have made every thing plain to 

 your readers, and if you would like to have 

 any further points I will be glad to give 

 them 



Isaac Luudy. 



[ I shall be very glad to have friend Lundy 

 tell us in detail exactly how he manages to 

 get drawn combs during the white honey 

 flow. — Ed.] 



The Lightest Foundation Ever Made. 



T. F. BINGHAM. 



\F course, every 

 bee-keeper is 

 interested in the 

 welfare of his voca- 

 tion, and would be 

 ylad to know if 

 changes are made, 

 A V and, if made, what 



^^L ^^^ want has led to 



^^V V .vi^^^fe such changes. 

 Watt found imper- 

 perfect tools and 

 machines for making steam cylinders, and 

 such other parts as were needed in the de- 

 velopement of his ideas or theories, the 

 greatest obstacles in the evolution of his 

 greatest of the world's inventions — the 

 steam engine. So it has been in all inven- 

 tions. Inventions do not come to men as 

 dreams, in the half-waking slumber of the 

 morning. A logical theory, command of 

 tools, adoption of means to ends, and pa- 

 tient, thoughtful industry are required. 

 How often have bee-keepers found their 

 ideas described later on, and put before the 

 public by another. The proverbial foot- 

 note is continually coming up like: "That 

 puts me in mind of etc., etc. " Every man 

 is entitled to the credit of the good he does, 

 and should be charged with any injustice he 

 has abetted. 



