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tication, any thing aud every thing that had 

 cells into which they could pile their honey, 

 as they had not time to draw out the ordin- 

 ary foundation. In the case of Mr. Doo- 

 little, the honey-flow was wauintr, and, as 

 drawn foundation has flat bases, the bees 

 were probably halting between two opinions 

 — on the one side, whether they should utilize 

 cells already drawn out, but which had fiat 

 bases that they didn't like, or should stop 

 to draw out the foundation that had natural 

 bases. As they were not able to give them 



an hexagonal form they did the next best 

 thing, and tilled up the corners with wax, as 

 will be seen at G. and to a less extent in .">. 

 The result of all of this goes to show that 

 we were honest in reporting what we saw, 

 and Mr. Doolittle was equally honest in re- 

 porting exactly what he observed. It is 

 evident, then, that, even in deep-cell (or 

 drawn ) foundation, flat bases do not always 

 eait the bees, and ttiat there are times when 

 they will try to remodel these bases by 

 sticking in more wax, and thus making a 

 more perceptible midrib. 



Mr. Weed, who has made all of these 

 plaster casts, and has given me all of my 

 pointers, assures us that he can make drawn 

 ( or deep-cell ) foundation, if you please, 

 with natural bases. His first idea was, in 

 fact, to make such bases: but his experi- 

 ments last summ^'r led him to believe that 

 flat bases, when deep walls were u=pd. were 

 JQst as good as natural. But Mr. Doolittle's 

 letter caused us to stop and scratch our 

 heads, and go a' I over onr experiments 

 again more carefull.N : and the result is that 

 Mr. Weed ha^ about come to the conclusion 

 that natural bases are better, even in the 

 case of deep-cell foundation, and he now 

 proposes to remodel his bases; and this, I 

 iiave no doubt, he will do successfully. 



I am willing to acknowledge that, in one 

 respect at least, drawn foundation is not 

 what we at tir-st hoped it would be, but in 

 only one respect, and this in relation to the 

 matter of the bases: but if that is the only 

 trout)le we can easily remedy it. 



But there is one thing we can not do. and 

 that is to prevent the bees from building 

 their all-worker comb-^ heavier at some 

 seasons of the year than at others. A few 

 weeks from now we hope to show yon sam- 



ples of drawn foundation having natural 

 bases instead of flat, said bases being just 

 as thin as the bees make them. Probably 

 the walls will be a little thicker near the 

 bottom of the cells than at the top. But 

 that makes no difference, because the bees 

 like the job, seemingly, of thinning down 

 the walls, for we know they almost invari- 

 ably do so. " 



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