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BEES AND BEE-KEEPING. 
two stocks representing average Carniolans and 
Cyprians, weighing evidenced the disparity to be 
considerable, that between the workers being greater 
than that between the drones. Taking twenty of 
each for purposes of comparison, I found — 
20 Camiolan drones weigh 66grs. 
20 C)T3rian ,, ,, 6o ,, 
20 Camiolan workers ,, 40 ,, 
20 Cyprian ,, ,, 28 ,, 
It is clear at once that variations in size of founda- 
tion are, at any rate, desirable, and the actual differ- 
ences between those combs which have been taken 
as models may perhaps explain, to some extent, 
why the rolls of different makes have been set to 
different gauges, although reasons are not wanting 
for supposing that mere accident has had more to do 
with it. 
Mehring plates give 30J cells to 6in. 
Long’s foundation . . . . „ 30 ,, 
Raitt’s ,, .... ,, 29 ,, ,, 
*Flat-bottomed foundation . . ,,28 ,, ,, 
Original Root ,, .. ,, 27 ,, ,, 
Flat-bottomed drone foundation ,, 25 ,, ,, 
Natural worker-comb seems to vary between the 
extremes of 30 and 27 cells to the bin., and drone- 
comb between 26 and 21 to the same space. 
The thickness of foundation has been determined 
a good deal by the demand made upon it for resist- 
ing strain, and hence that running about five super- 
ficial feet to the pound, z>., of -^Cin. in average thickness, 
is usually recommended for brood-chambers. Were 
* The size of this foundation cannot be stated absolutely, since it fails 
in not measuring the same along the three diagonals, which cut the 
parallel sides of the hexagons at right angles. 
