. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. 506 THE BRITISH BEE JOURNAL. [Dec. 12, 1895. by themselves, as the Sabines often did when their children became very many. You are aware when this is about to happen, because they make a vehement noise, as soldiers do when they are about to march. Then the bee-keeper casts dust amongst them, and, tinkling a kettle, he astonishes them, and. makes them ; While presenting to the readers of the , the foregoing extracts, I feel bound to utter a word of warning. My oracle is not infallible. I may say it is not always truth- ful. O
. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. 506 THE BRITISH BEE JOURNAL. [Dec. 12, 1895. by themselves, as the Sabines often did when their children became very many. You are aware when this is about to happen, because they make a vehement noise, as soldiers do when they are about to march. Then the bee-keeper casts dust amongst them, and, tinkling a kettle, he astonishes them, and. makes them ; While presenting to the readers of the , the foregoing extracts, I feel bound to utter a word of warning. My oracle is not infallible. I may say it is not always truth- ful. Or, to use plain language, it does not scruple on occasion to tell you the most bare- faced—well, we will call them stories. In corroboration of this indictment I would refer to certain instructions for turning lead into gold. You are directed to cast an ounce of a certain preparation upon 3 ok. of lead, then, in the words of the oracle, " it will turn yellow ; then cast 1 oz. upon 8 oz. of lead pre- pared, and you shall have perfect gold. Praise God for it, and give something to the poor ! " — Gerard W. Bancks, , Green- street Green, Dartford. (To be Continued.) VERIFY YOUR QUOTATIONS. [2336.] Just a line to say that the lines quoted (No. 2287, p. 466) from Butler's ,k Hudibras," " He that complies against his will Is of the same opinion still," are given in the edition from which I take this extract :— " He that complies against his will Is of his own opinion ; —Butler's (1 Hudibras,'' part iii., canto iii., lines 547-8, Gilfillan & Clarke's edition, vol. ii, 1862.— D. D., November 21. PREVENTION OF SWARMING. (Concluded from page 497.) Those early colonies already mentioned will show how to get comb-building done above the stock chamber ; you have only to give them the supers wherein to do it, but do not attempt to use starters only in the sections. Use nothing les9 than fall sheets—and surely foundation is cheap enough,
Size: 1735px × 1441px
Photo credit: © Library Book Collection / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury, bookdecade1870, bookpublisherlondon, booksubjectbees
