AMERICAN BEE JOURNA3 



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Don't fool with such plans, but use 

 thin foundation in sections. — J. H. Lak- 



RABEET. 



I would use the thiii surplus foundation 

 in the sections to begin with, and save 

 the bother. — E. France. 



If your time is worth anything, use 

 thin foundation, without being drawn 

 out. — Mrs. L. Harrison. 



Use the thin surplus foundation, and 

 place it at first where it is to be com- 

 pleted. — Mrs. J. N. Heater. 



Use thin surplus foundation — the 

 thinner the better, if you want nice 

 comb honey. — H. D. Cutting. 



" I don't know." Your plan is worth 

 trying. But, well — I dunno ! See Re- 

 view for March. — W. M. Barnum. 



I would use the thin surplus founda- 

 tion, and have it drawn out at the side 

 of the brood-frames. — A. B. Mason. 



In the first case you would not be 

 sure that it would be thinned. I prefer 

 very thin foundation for the sections. — 

 A. J. Cook. 



Use thin foundation without having it 

 drawn out. The other way you have 

 your work for nothing, for we take it 

 that one bee's time is worth as much as 

 another's. — Jas. A. Stone. 



Use thin foundation, every time. It 

 does not pay to putter with foundation 

 to have it drawn out in any place ex- 

 cept the cases where it is to be finished 

 into perfect section honey. — C. H. Dib- 



BERN. 



No one should think of using founda- 

 tion as heavy as 8 feet to the pound for 

 comb honey ; 11 to 12 feet to the pound 

 is as heavy as can be used without dan- 

 ger of a "fish-bone" in the comb honey. 

 ^G. M. Doolittle. 



I would prefer to take the chances 

 with a good article of thin foundation. 

 You might gain something by getting it 

 partially drawn in the brood-chamber, 

 if you have but few colonies, and plenty 

 of time. With a large number of colo- 

 nies you would likely find it tedious. — 

 S. I. Freeborn. 



I think it profitable foundation of 

 about 9 feet to the pound, but whatever 

 weight I used I would have it drawn out 

 in the sections only. What possible ad- 

 vantage can foundation drawn out in 

 the brood-chamber behind a division- 

 board have over that drawn out in the 

 sections ? — R. L. Taylor. 



If you mean profitable in dollars and 

 cents, then ray answer would be, the 

 foundation that costs the least and will 

 bring the most money when worked into 



combs. If you want a real, first-class 

 quality of comb honey, the thinner the 

 foundation the better. I should not use 

 any brood-foundation in the sections if I 

 expected to get a first-class price for my 

 honey, and hold my customers. Neither 

 should I use any combs that had been 

 drawn out before the bees were ready to 

 fill them with honey. — Emerson T. Ab- 

 bott. 



I use the thin surplus. Your project 

 is too much time used for so small an 

 item. Use the thin foundation at first. 

 You would not likely get it drawn out in 

 three days behind the division-board, 

 every time. Bees are bees, and some- 

 times they will, and sometimes they 

 won't. — Mrs. Jennie Atchley. 



The thinnest that you can get. I 

 never found foundation drawn out much. 

 But if bees do draw it out, isn't the wax 

 all there? And will you not find it 

 when you eat the honey ? I do. Comb 

 is one thing. Beeswax is another. I 

 never saw a person who liked beeswax 

 on their bread. — Eugene Secor. 



If you have plenty of time that is not 

 of very much value, the former plan is 

 the more profitable. If I wanted to get 

 as large a crop as possible, regardless of 

 labor, I would use foundation drawn out 

 in the brood-chamber. Time could be 

 spent in this way more profitably than 

 in many of the ways most bee-keepers 

 use it. — J. A. Green. 



In my opinion the thin foundation 

 only should be used in sections. Brood- 

 foundation, even as light as 8 feet to the 

 pound, Langstroth frame size, would 

 show a thick midrib in the comb honey, 

 and that is just what we wish to avoid. 

 I use the thinnest foundation I can ob- 

 tain — all I require being that it shall 

 hold together ; 12 to 14 feet to the 

 pound, Langstroth frame size, I find 

 works well. — J. E. Pond. 



There is no advantage in having foun- 

 dation drawn out in the brood-chamber 

 and then cutting it out and putting into 

 sections. The bees will draw out foun- 

 dation in the section supers quick enough 

 if they can be made to enter them in 

 force when honey is coming in. The 

 only secret in this matter is to use a 

 small, shallow brood-chamber with 

 queen-excluder, and then the placing of 

 section foundation in the brood-chamber 

 to get it partly drawn out, either in sec- 

 tions or brood-frames, is quite unneces- 

 sary. The extra-thin foundation is the 

 only kind that should be used in the sec- 

 tions. Thin brood-foundation is only fit 

 for brood.— G. L. Tinker. 



