Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 254, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 October 1920 — Relieves Bees of Labor [ARTICLE]

Relieves Bees of Labor

Metal Honey *Comb Helps Industrial ' Insects to Lay Up More Money _ For Their Owner. “Comb foundation*' {originally the Invention of a woman) is a familiar commercial product nowadays, being [ made of beeswax and turned out by a simple machine that somewhat resemBectangular shoe’*'io material

are placed in the frames of the beehive, and, being already lald out with suitable foundations for the cells, they relieve the bees of just that much work, the industrious insects having only to build up the walls to. such nelght as the spacing ot the frames permits. , A new idea, said to have proved entirely successful, is that of making the foundation sheets of aluminum instead of beeswax When the metal has been brushed lightly with -melted wax it serves the purpose just as well. the

T—bees being quite content to build upon it One advantage of the aluminum sheets is that they are not fragile.*