ITALIAN QUEEN BEE 73 



one in the world in Bee Keepers' Supplies, 

 including vast quantities of both comb and 

 extracted honey, as well as one hundred tons 

 of pure beeswax every year, out of which 

 to make comb-foundation, a full description 

 of which does not naturally come in this out- 

 line of my life experiences as an Italian 

 Queen Bee. I can only say it is almost as 

 thin as paper, the hexagonal bases of cells 

 printed on or into sheets of it, by dies, after 

 it has been rim through great steel rolls. 

 IWe simply draw this out into full sized 

 cells, whose walls are thin as onion skin. 

 Thus, the wax furnished us, we waste no 

 time in secreting the amount of beeswax 

 necessary for brood or honey comb, and our 

 energies may be forcefully given entirely to 

 storing honey. In the honey harvesting in- 

 dustry, this is as great a strategem to get us 

 to do our best as is any labor saving device 

 among human workers. Aided in this man- 

 ner, a good colony of Italian Bees will store 

 from thirty to two hundred pound-sections 

 of comb honey each summer, according to 



