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season. This allows the newly built combs 

 to be sorted over and the imperfect ones 

 cnlled out and rendered into wax. | 



If seeuriut; straight all-worker comb is 

 not the greatest benefit arising from the 

 use of foundation, it is certainly next to 

 the greatest. The advantages of having 

 each comb a counterpart of all others, to 

 be able to place any comb in any hive, in 

 short, to have eich interchangable with all 

 the others: and to be able to control the pro- 

 duction of drone-, to have them reared from 

 such stock as we desire, and in such quan- 

 ities, no more and no less, all these are 

 advantages that cannot be ignored, even at 

 the cost of tilling our frames with founda- 

 tion, and securing a little less surplus. We 

 HiKsf have straight, worker combs. If they 

 can be secured without foundation well and 

 good; if not, it must be used. By using 

 weak colonies, or queen rearing nuclei, or 

 by feeding bees in the tall, straight all- 

 •worke" combs may be secured at a profit. 



Perhaps the greatest iinmeiliafe profit aris- 

 ing from the use of foundation, is not so 

 much in the saving of honey that would 

 otherwise have been used in the elaboration 

 of wax, as in the quickness with which it 

 enables the bees to furnish storage for hon- 

 ey. When bees are storing lioney slowly, 

 t'le wax that they secrete, without consura- 

 inj7 honey express'y for that pnrf>ose, prob- 

 ab'y furnishes sutlicient material, and there 

 is probably abundant time, for the building 

 of comb in which to store the honey. As the 

 flow of honey increases, the handling of 

 larger quantities of nectar increases the 

 natural or involuntary wax secretion; but, 

 as the yield of honey i' creases, a point is 

 reached when honey must be consumed ex- 

 preaslu that wax may be secreted. It is 

 quite likely that, at this point, foundation 

 may be u^ed at a profit to aid the bees in 

 famishing storage. When the yield is so 

 great that the bees cannot secrete wax and 

 build comb with sufficient rapidity to store 

 all the honey that they might gather, then 

 foundation is cert^kily us 'd at a profit, 

 l! urthfTinore, I have seen the yield of honey 

 so boiintifid that even foundation did not 

 answer the purpo-.e; ttie bees could not draw 

 it out fast enough to furnish storage for all 

 of the honey that could have been brought 

 in. At such times, drawn combs are needed. 



It will be seen th^t this (jnestion of foun- 

 dation is one to which there may he pro- 

 fitably given much ttiought and experimen- 

 taMon. If the bee-keeper lives where the 

 honev flow i* light, but. Derhaps prolonged, 

 he ^ill find it more profitable to allow his 

 bees to t>uild th«'irown combs. If he can't 

 get perfect brood combs, he certainly can 

 allow the bees to build their combs for the 

 surplus comb honey. If honey comes in 

 'floods.' as it sometimes does in some 

 localities, the man who allows his bees to 

 build their store comb* unaided at such a 

 time, loses dollars and dollars. If fonnda- 

 tion is needed only for the sake of securing 

 straight worker combs, it need not necessa- 

 rily be heavy. A" foundation in brood 

 frames, upon whic'i swarms are hived, 

 should be wired in prevent sagging and 

 breaking down." 



I^idney and 

 Bladdetr Tt^oable 

 Quickly Cured. 



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Men and woman doctor their troubles so 

 often without benefit, that they get dis- 

 couraged and skeptical. Inmost such cases 

 serious mistakes are made in doctoring and 

 not knowing what our trouble is or what 

 makes us sick. The unmistakable evidences 

 of kidney trouble are pain or dull ache in the 

 back, too frequent desire to pass water, 

 scanty supply, scalding irritation. As kid- 

 ney disease advances the face looks sallow 

 or pale, eyes puffy, the feet swell and some- 

 times the heart acts badly. Should further 

 evidence be needed to find out the cause of 

 sickness, then set urine aside for twenty- 

 four hours; a sediment or settling is also 

 convincing proof that our kidneys and blad- 

 der need doctoring. A fact often overlook- 

 ed, or not understood, is that women suffer 

 as much from kidney and bladder trouble as 

 men do. 



Dr. Kilmer's Swamp-Root is the discov- 

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 and as such is not recommended for every- 

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 in cases of kidney and tiladder disorders or 

 disorders or troubles due to weak kidneys, 

 such as Bright's Disease, gravel or rheum- 

 atism. 



The mild and extraordinary effect of 

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