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op and bottom starters, and I have 

 lad a kind of "sneaking feeling" that I 

 S^as a little on the back number order 

 lecause I use only starters or half 

 heets. But if it is wrong to use lull 

 heets because of fraud, then if one 

 ised only a little starter that would 

 Iso be wrong, though using full 

 heets as per Doctor Miller's plan 

 vould be deserving of capital punish- 

 aent, while using starters, say one 

 rich square, would entitle one to 

 bout thirty days in jail. 



of the largest firms that make and 

 handle bee supplies. It was almost 

 white and even in the hottest weather 

 it did not get soft. I am told that it 

 has been bleached, and that when 

 thus treated, it becomes whiter and 

 harder, but I surely don't understand 

 why bleaching should render it so that 

 it requires more heat to melt it. I 

 think it contains a pretty large per 

 cent of paraffine. but I may be wrong. 

 If not, then why do not all makers 

 bleach their foundation? I find that 



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No, Friend Greiuer, I surely don't 

 gree with you, because wax founda- 

 ion is not really an artificial produc- 

 ion, but the pure bees' wax is merely 

 abulded into convenient form. What 

 ind of comb honey would we have 

 without foundation? 



I think starters are all right and full 

 heets better, because you get your 

 ections to weigh just about a pound 

 nd more uniform. But let me tell 

 ■ou where the harm is: 



Two years ago I got ten pounds of 

 ice, thin super foundation from one 



the bees do not accept this white foun- 

 dation as readily as that which has a 

 yellowish color. Since that time I 

 have been using it. 



We are told that all foundation made 

 in the United States is unadulterated 

 and that no paraffine is used in foun- 

 dation. Now, my fellow bee-keepers, 

 why did Professor Wiley, who is 

 chief in chemistry at Washington, 

 give to the Rural New Yorker an 

 article for publication last winter in 

 which he stated that paraffine was 

 used in making comb base? 



