. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. June 13, 1895.] THE BRITISH BEE JOURNAL. 235 in the workshop. Mr. Greenhill had left the shop, and was breakfasting in the house attached when the alarm of fire was raised, and, owing to the inflammable nature of the stock, the place was burnt out before any effort could be made to extinguish the flames. Fortunately the fire was confined to the work- shop, the stock of made-up goods in the ad- joining building being uninjured ; otherwise the loss would have been still more serious, as nothing was insured. HULL AND DISTRICT The sunle
. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. June 13, 1895.] THE BRITISH BEE JOURNAL. 235 in the workshop. Mr. Greenhill had left the shop, and was breakfasting in the house attached when the alarm of fire was raised, and, owing to the inflammable nature of the stock, the place was burnt out before any effort could be made to extinguish the flames. Fortunately the fire was confined to the work- shop, the stock of made-up goods in the ad- joining building being uninjured ; otherwise the loss would have been still more serious, as nothing was insured. HULL AND DISTRICT The sunless sky of Monday, June 3, was rather a drawback to the visit of the Hull and District Bee-keepers' Association to Burton Pidsea, at the invitation of the vicar, the Rev. R. M. Lamb, but a most interesting afternoon was spent in the vicarage garden, and the vicar's lucid explanation of the habits of the busy bee, and the pitch to which the production of honey can be raised by long experience and careful study of these habits, was no less interesting to the lay mind than to the students of bee-culture themselves. Mr. Lamb was able to demonstrate that, with proper care and attention, bee-keeping could be made a profitable as well as an interesting hobby, and his willingness to impart the results of his own experience and others should lead to the extension of bee-keeping in the East Riding, which is admirably suited in every way for the production of that delicious but comparatively little-used deli- cacy, honey.—(Communicated.) NOVELTIES FOR 1895. THE " BRICE " QUEEN-CAGE. The queen-introducing cage here illustrated has been devised by our correspondent, Mr. H. W. Brice, whose articles on queen-raising, which appeared in our pages last year, created considerable interest in the subject. Regard- ing his queen-cage Mr. Brice says :—If we take the parts 1, 2, and 3 separately there is. Fig. 1. little that is entirely original in them, but viewed together the cage will
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