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also begun experimenting in the same line. 

 The experiments will be continued in the 

 spring. When the results are published I 



shall probably report the results to the 

 readers of Gleanings. 



Markt Oberdorf, Bavaria, Germany. 



THE NET= WEIGHT LAW 



BY T. K. MASSIE 



It may be remembered by the older read- 

 ers of the bee-journals that for years past I 

 have seriously objected to the use of light- 

 weight sections, refusing to use them at all 

 myself. It has always looked to me too much 

 like taking the advantage of our customers 

 to sell them a 12, 13, or 14 ounce section 

 when the customers were thinking that they 

 were getting a pound of honey for the price 

 charged. I believed then, and do now, that 

 such practice is an offense in the sight of 

 God. I believed that he would use the works 

 of man to punish those who followed that 

 practice. 



For several years I have used the 4i/4 x 5 

 xl% plain section, it being the nearest to 



the full pound section of any on the market. 

 Now that we have to readjust ourselves on 

 this matter, why not adopt a section with 

 sufficient cubic capacity to hold a pound of 

 honey? In localities like mine, where it is 

 necessary to have the honey ripened up 

 rapidly, a comb 1% inches thick suits better 

 than a thicker one. My latest experiments 

 prove that, with honey produced in sections 

 1% thick, it requires about 21 square inches 

 of the comb honey to weigh 16 ounces. 

 Making no allowance for the thickness of 

 the sections nor the bee-spaces, the 4^ x 5 

 X 1% gives us 29 cubic inches. The 4%, x 

 41/4x11/2 sections give 27 cubic inches. Now, 

 if we had a section 314 x 6I/2 x 1% it would 



Charles Y. Hake's new hives all ready for the bees, and a couple of old earthenware hives. 



