British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser . equirefood to keepthem going. Ifind some of mystocks scarcein bees haveplenty of stores,mainly, I sup-pose, of therebeing no beesto consume thefood. I waslooking at abook lately (amodern one)and becamemuch interestedin it till a pas-sage occurredwherein theauthor advo-cated a 40 ! Thiswas an Italianspecialty. Smallwonder thatour friend,D. M. on to theblacks. What-ever their faults, they do not require feed-ing at this rate ! I was also interestedin the exploits of your correspondent, Humble Bee (6271, page 144), witTi hisfishing-rod.
British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser . equirefood to keepthem going. Ifind some of mystocks scarcein bees haveplenty of stores,mainly, I sup-pose, of therebeing no beesto consume thefood. I waslooking at abook lately (amodern one)and becamemuch interestedin it till a pas-sage occurredwherein theauthor advo-cated a 40 ! Thiswas an Italianspecialty. Smallwonder thatour friend,D. M. on to theblacks. What-ever their faults, they do not require feed-ing at this rate ! I was also interestedin the exploits of your correspondent, Humble Bee (6271, page 144), witTi hisfishing-rod. I have read a deal on queen,mating, but fishing for drones with a virginqueen as bait fairly takes the cake.—Mac, Midlothian. any of your readers will kindly assist usin this matter by lending anything con-nected with bee-keeping which would be ofgeneral interest. I need hardly say thegreatest care would be taken of such andcarriage both ways would be gladly paidby us.—G. R. Alder, Secretary E. and Rawreth, Wickford, May (Made ^rom ESSEX AND SUFFOLK [6316.] Our association is holding an ex-hibition of interesting and instructivearticles connected with apiculture at theEssex Agricultural Show, Brentwood, onJune 13 and X4 next. I shall be glad if [3295.] A Beginners Queries.—I see yougladly give advice to readers, 60 I am ask ing the favourof replies to thefollowing ques-tions : -1 havethis spring com-menced keepingbees in frame-hives. 1 hadthem before inskeps, but sometime ago Iplaced thestrongest stockover the body-box of a frame-hive, for trans-ferrence to thelatter, as recom-mended in the Guide skep hasbeen on it nowfor five weeks,yet the queenhas not com-menced to de-posit eggs inlower hive,although theskep is crowdedwith bees. Doyou not thinkshe is a long timegoing down ? thought ofworking it ondoubling sys-tem. Willthere be time tofollow that plan this season? Then, withregard to stock No. 2. This is ; weak lot,although they have b
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