. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. Auor. 12. 1897.] THE BRITISH BEE JOURNAL. 315 are charged by the Postmaster-General 200 per cent, more for a sample of bees than any other industrial sample. Why is this ? Why, I ask, is our small iadustry handicapped thus ? Has any consignment of bies through the mails ever caused an injury either to the officiils or to th3 matter in ransit with the bees ! If so, let us know who sent the consignment and then we will try aud "CONDEMNED" BEES. [2973.] In the years gone by, at this season we used to go round with pony
. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. Auor. 12. 1897.] THE BRITISH BEE JOURNAL. 315 are charged by the Postmaster-General 200 per cent, more for a sample of bees than any other industrial sample. Why is this ? Why, I ask, is our small iadustry handicapped thus ? Has any consignment of bies through the mails ever caused an injury either to the officiils or to th3 matter in ransit with the bees ! If so, let us know who sent the consignment and then we will try aud "CONDEMNED" BEES. [2973.] In the years gone by, at this season we used to go round with pony and carriage rescuing condemned bees. That was when we were voung and energetic, and had visions of a garden (day-dreams) with fifty hives down one side of it and fifty down the other. The garden is there right enough, but somehow the bees never increased beyond twenty hives ; CJUNTi^ HONEY TROPHIES AT "ROYAL" SHOW, 1897. (No. 2. SECOND PRIZE, YORKSHIRE instruct him how to send queens without the slightest risk of any escape of bees, even if her Majesty's mails should get wrecked. This subject affects only a minority of bee-keepers, yet I think it worthy the serious attention of the British Bee-keepers' Association. Who will start the cause?—W. Woodley, Beedon, Newbury. or, if they did, some one came along and made us a tempting offer, and so the bees went. Bees in these parts do not swarm very readily. If you super early they rarely swarm at all, so to increase the apiary it is necessary to arti- ficially divide or make extra stock in the autumn with condemned bees. In those days we were young and inexperienced, conse-. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original London
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