Apiary ExPERiMENts. " 



21 



Table Giving the Proportionate Weights of Honey and Wax in Capped 



Comb Honey. 



KINDS OP COMB, 





bo CO 



'SB 



fee 



1.2 



H 



.SB 



hIS cd 



off 



Offl 



w a 

 Is "3 



OS 



II 



So 



Natural 



On Small Starter 



II II II 



II Ik II 



II II It 



On Pull Piece '99 Deep- Cell Starter 

 On Full Piece '98 Deep-Cell Starter 



1.37 



1.13 



.75 



308. 4B 

 174.00 

 75.00 

 374.00 

 351.00 

 346.00 

 344.20 

 344.00 

 312.80 

 287.00 

 ri44 00 

 4;i4.C0 



297.95 

 167.71 

 71.14 

 358.76 

 334.40 

 330.40 

 328.50 

 328.19 

 298.00 

 273.20 

 525.08 

 884.00 



10.50 

 6 29 

 3.86 

 17.24 

 16.60 

 15.60 

 15.70 

 15.81 

 14.80 

 13.80 

 18.92 

 20.00 



1 to 28.38 

 1 to 26.66 

 1 to 18.43 

 1 to 20.70 

 1 to 20.02 

 1 to 21.12 

 1 to 20.92 

 1 to 20.76 

 1 to 20.13 

 1 to 19.80 

 1 to 27.75 

 1 to 19.70 



In case of natural comb honey 1.37 inches thick the honey 

 weighed 28.38 times as much as the wax, while the sample .75 of 

 an inch thick, which was built at the same time as the thicker 

 comb and by the side of it, had only 18.43 times as much honey as 

 wax. The intermediate sample (1.13 inches thick) had 26.66 times 

 ■as, much honey as wax. 



AH other comb samples in this table were taken from sections 

 measuring 4Jx4i inches and If inches thick. The combs were 

 built on small tpp starters, except in case of the last two examples, 

 one of which was built upon a full-piece ot the "1899'' deep-cell 

 foundation and the other upon a similar sheet of "1898" deep-cell 

 foundation. The thickness of the comb was not taken in these sec- 

 tions, but it did -not vary much from one and, one-fourth inches in 

 any case. 



The comb in the sections with small starters did not vary 

 much from one-twentieth of the weight of honey in any case, and 

 the proportion of wax was somewhat greater than in the samples of 

 natural conab of similar thickness. 



Passing to the sample of c6mb on the -'1899" deep-cell founda-- 

 tiou, we notice, first, that it is much heavier than any of the preced:. 

 jng, and hence much thicker, and in consequence it has a much 

 higher ratio of honey to wax, 1 to 27.75. This is also in keeping 

 with results announced on previous pages, indicating that this 



