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DR. MILLER S 
Q. How many sections 4^x4J4 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. 12. — 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- 
ever, that if you care to try it you can get drone-foundation. 
Q. 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 if 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 
