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VOL, VIM, FLINT, MICHIGAN, NOV, 10, 1895, 



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Experimerital 



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R. L. TAYLOR, APIARIST. 

 COMPARISON OF SECTION COMB FOUNDATIONS. 



TN making an 

 1 experimeut 

 with comb foun- 

 dation this j-ear I 

 have pursued a 

 course dift'erinnr 

 in some re? peels 

 from that pursu- 

 ed in former ex- 

 periments. In the 

 tirst place all the 

 s imples made hy 

 others (o lie used 

 in the experimeut were procured in 

 such a way that none of the manufacturers 

 could know that it was to be used by me 

 except the single one wiiich I have called 

 the Root-Given which I will explain here is 

 a foundation made by a machine got up by 

 the A. I. Root Co. to make foundation in 

 imitation of that produced by the Given 

 l)ress tliough the machine itself is a roller 

 mill. Then instead of using a single sample 

 of Given foundation of my own manufac- 

 ture for comparison as in former experi- 

 ments I used two— one was freshly made 

 from wax selected on account of its bright 



yellow color and its hard brittle character 

 from a lot of wax which was mostly pur- 

 chased and perhaps from five to ten percent 

 of the selection was made frorri cappings. 

 On account of the character of this wax the 

 proper sheeting of it for use in the Given 

 press was decidely more difficult than is 

 ordinarily the case as the sheets were so 

 prone to crnckin cooling and when they did 

 not crack they were considerably inclined to 

 roll or crinkle. The other was made last 

 year and was from the lot used in making 

 the test a year ago. In the table the former 

 is simply d iuominated Given while the 

 hitter is called the Old Given. In addition 

 to the three mentioned I procured a sample 

 from each of the three following manufac- 

 turers viz. C. Dadaut ct Son, Hamilton, 111., 

 the A. I. Root Co., Medina, 0., and M, H. 

 Hunt, Bell Branch, Mich. The method of 

 ompnrison puisued [was the same as was 

 emiiloyed in last year's trial. Sections 

 nine to the foot were used in cases holding 

 thirty t^ix such sections without separators, 

 the theory, I may repeat, being that the 

 kind of foundation best adapted to such use 

 would be worked first and drawn out far- 

 thest by the bees and so be found to contain 

 the most lioney. To make the test a fair 

 one each case was filled with one of the sorts 

 of foundation selected for the trial and the 

 other half with another sort, the two sorts 

 being made to alternate throughout. 



As will be seen the Given foundation 

 made from the hard yellow wax is tiie kind 

 selected with which to compare each of the 



