THE BEE-KEEPERvS' REVIEW. 



down on their very "knees" to squeeze 

 through between the ends of the cells and 

 the separator. In such a case, he says 

 that there will be trouble. He also says 

 that these same conditions will produce 

 ridged, or "washboardy" honey when the 

 "fence" style of separator is used. I no- 

 ticed that Mr. Danzenbaker's honey did 

 have a slight "washboardy" appearance 

 if it were held so the light struck it just 

 right. Mr. Aspinwall's honey shows 

 nothing of the kind, but then, his separa- 

 tor is not of the "fence' ' style. He writes 

 me, however, that he has heard from sev- 

 eral, and some report ridged combs, in 

 some instances, from the use of "fence" 

 separators. 



I think that Mr. Bingham's point in re- 

 gard to the artistic appearance of "bor- 

 ders" would be much stronger if the wide 

 edge of the section entirely surronndcd 

 the comb, but, as it is on only tivo sides, 

 it reminds me of a picture that has a 

 frame on only two sides. 



That the combs would be more likely 

 to be injured in their journey from the 

 retailer's ca.se to the consumer's kitchen, 

 I think looks reasonable. That project- 

 ing edge is quite a protection against in- 

 jury to the comb. l<ct us be honest 

 about these things. 



When I was coming home from the 

 Michigan convention, I stopped a few 

 hours at Saginaw, with Mr. O. J. Iletlier- 

 ington; and I found him rigging a few 

 cases with the "fence" style of sepirator 

 and the plain sections. He is going to 

 give them a trial in a small way; and I 

 honestly believe that that is the best way 

 for all bee-keepers to do. Never mind if 

 you do lielieve these things are a "snare 

 and a delusion," try \X\<i\\\ yourself in a 

 small way. On the other hand, no matter 

 how certain you may be that they are of 

 superior merit, don't throw away your old 

 fixtures and go tomany dollars of expense 

 in adopting the new until you have first 

 tried a few and seen how they "pan out." 



Those who are using T supers can try 

 the plain sections with no other expense 

 than that for "fence" separators. 



THE NO-W AIX FOUNDATION. 



Some of my readers will remember that 

 at the meeting of the Michigan State 

 Bee-Keepers' Association, held in 1896, 

 Mr. Bingham so strongly advocated what 

 he considered the advantages of a very 

 thin foundation having no side-walls, 

 that sufficient money was contributed to 

 pay for the expense of making a mill up- 

 on which such foundation could be man- 

 ufactured. Some of this foundation, 

 running about sixteen feet to the pound, 

 was sent out to the diff'erent members; 

 some of them using as much as ten pounds 

 of it. Unfortunately, however, so far as 

 a report was concerned, Mr. Bingham 

 was about the only one present who had 

 given the foundation much of a test. I 

 produced no comb honey in my own 

 apiary last year, and Mr. Aspinwall was 

 detained at home by company. 



Mr. Bingham ])roduceda nice little crop 

 of comb honey in 1S97, using this style 

 of foundation exclusively, if I remem- 

 ber aright, and he was delighted with it. 



It will be remembered that Mr. Aspin- 

 wall had previously reported in the Re- 

 view that he was pleased with it so far as 

 the eating quality of the honey was con- 

 cerned, but that it curled too much to 

 suit him. He farther expresses himself 

 on the subject in this issue of the Review. 

 His only objection is that of curling. To 

 show how little trouble he had from curl- 

 ing, Mr. Bingham brought along to the 

 convention a super full of partly finished 

 sections just as they came from the hive. 

 The foundation had been drawn out, or 

 partly drawn out, and filled with honey, 

 and, as this was at the end of the season, 

 when, as all experienced bee-keepers 

 know, there will be curled combs if at 

 any time, the exhibition of that super, 

 just as it came from the hive, was a pretty 

 good proof that the foundation will not 

 curl in some places where it might be ex- 

 pected that it would. Of course, no one 

 doubts that it did curl with Mr. Aspin- 

 wall, but, of course, there must have 

 been some reason for it — something in 

 his management, locality, or something. 



