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DR. MILLER S 



Q. How many sections 4J4x4J4 will one pound of thin super 

 foundation fill; full sheets? 



A. About 100, or a few more. 



Q. Don't you think it would be a good plan for the manufac- 

 turers of foundation to furnish the section foundation with 

 drone-size base? It would save the bees considerable work in 

 comb-building where full sheets are used. 



A. You would probably not like it. Generally there is less 

 drone-comb in the brood-chamber than the bees would have if 

 left to their own devices, and with little or no drone-comb below 

 and abundance above, the queen would be likely to make trouble. 



Fig. }2. — Full sheets of foundation assure combs with a minimum of drone-brood. 



To be sure, you might keep her down with an excluder, but that 

 would be trouble and expense, and you would find that some sec- 

 tions would not be finished up as promptly as they should be, for 

 the bees would hold the cells open for the queen. I think, how- 

 ex cr. that if you care to try it you can get drone-foundation. 



(J. If I order more foundation than I use, how can I keep it 

 from spoiling? 



A. I hardly know what you can do with it that it will not 

 keep, unless you put it in an oven where it will melt, or spread it ■ 

 out in the sun and rain for a year. Just keep it covered up where- 

 ever it is convenient. Even i£ you have it filled into sections, 

 keep them where they will be dry and nice, and they will be all 

 right. Although bees take hold of fresh foundation a little more 

 readily than that which has been kept over, there isn't much dif- 

 ference. But if you leave it on the hives in the fall, when no 



