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VOL. IX, FLINT, MICHIGAN, SEP. 10. 1896. NO. 9. 



AVork at IVCidiigan's 



Experimental 



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R. L. TAYLOR, APIARIST. 

 COMPARISON OF SECTION COMB FOUNDATIONS. 



/SrOMB founda- 

 VJ tion bears 

 about the same 

 relation to the 

 npiarist as com- 

 mercial fertilizer 

 is to the farmer 

 who is compelled 

 to use it. In 

 each case the 

 quality of the 

 article has much 

 to do with the 

 success and prosperity of the class usiug it. 

 It is of the utmost importance, consequently, 

 that purchaser:* V)e informed in so far as 

 m;i\ l)e of the chiiracter of the goods offered 

 for sale by different dealers, a condition 

 which results not only in present safety to 

 the purchaser but also ( and this is perhaps 

 even more important ) compels manufac- 

 turers continually to make every effort to 

 keep the quality of their product at the 

 highest possible point. It is therefore 

 deemed de.sirable that the experiments 

 heretofore made with comb foundation 

 should be repeated and this has been done 

 during the season of 189G. 



It is all the more important that these ex- 

 periments should be continued, because new 

 methods are from time to time being learn- 

 ed and practiced in the manipulation, and 

 it is of the highest interest that it be known 

 if possible whether the methods affect the 

 product favorably or otherwise. During 

 the past year especially, there has been a 

 marked change in methods by the adoption 

 by our leading manufacturers of the Weed 

 invention. This is a machine the most im- 

 portant feature of which seems to be the 

 contrivance by which melted wax is made 

 into sheets of any length by being passed 

 between cylinders. The immediate object 

 of the present experiment was to test the 

 quality of foundation made by this new 

 process. 



As a basis for comparison I made some 

 foundation on the Given Press out of wax 

 carefully selected for its purity, color and 

 favorable texture, the efifort being directed 

 to the selection of wax known to be most 

 acceptable and most readily worked by the 

 bees. The samples compared were three, 

 one from the largest manufacturer in this 

 state, M. H. Hunt. Bell Branch, Mich., 

 which was made by the method heretofore 

 in vogue, and the other two respectiyely 

 from the two leading manufacturers of this 

 country if not of the world, the A. I. Root 

 Co. of Medina Ohio, and Chas. Dadant A 

 Son, of Hamilton 111., made by the new 

 process. One case was devoted to the three 

 kinds, that is each case of a size to contain 

 36 sections nine to the foot was filled with 



