THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW 



191 



Retrospect 



(Continued from page 164) 

 old hive will have lost most of its 

 bees, and what remains consists of 

 very young bees. The queen can be 

 t^asily found and the hive returned 

 to its old place. 



Why Does Comb Foundation 



Stretch? 



Why does comb foundation stretcl 

 or rather expand? That is the ques- 

 tion asked and answered by Arthur 

 Miller on page 272. His answer is 

 characteristic of the man: "What 

 an absurd question! Suppose you 

 had been rolled out as flat an a 

 pancake and sat upon by a lot of 

 females, don't you think you would 

 stretch yourself if you had a 

 fhance? I would." 



Everybody knows that every- 

 thing expands more or less when 

 the temperature rises. If a cool 

 piece of foundation is fastened 

 into a frame and then put in the 

 warm hive, a certain amount of 

 expansion will tako place and as 

 the frame does not expand, or ex- 

 pands only very little the piece of 

 foundation will necessarily bulge, 

 or buckle or stretch, whichever 

 term you choose to use. That ex- 

 ] ansion (or stretching) is very 

 small and does no harm. But with 

 the modern weed foundation, some- 

 thing else comes into play. The 

 weed foundation is made by an 

 normous pressure on the wax 

 sheets. This puts the wax in a 

 unnatural condition and reduces its 

 bulk. Under the heat of the hives, 

 the wax softens and the molecules 

 become movable and regain their 

 natural positions, thus expanding 

 the bulk of the wax and causing 

 considerable bulging or stretching. 

 The Ritsche press foundation made 

 practically without pressure stretches 

 but very little, not enough to give 

 trouble. Mr. Miller says that some 

 old foundation that had been stored 

 in the attic for several years did 

 not stretch. An attic in summer 

 *ime is a very warm place. Very 

 likely it had been warm enough to 

 soften the wax and allow it to re- 

 turn to its natural condition. 



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