. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. Fig. 93. Fig. 94. that have never laid again after I have received them, and I have sent out splendid tested queens that have shown the same fault in the hands of the recipient. Fertile tjueens from strong stocks, in full lay, with their ovaries loaded with eggs, should not be sent straight off. Reduce the eggs in the ovaries by placing the queen in a small nucleus for a few days before despatching. {To be continued.). The Editors do not hold themselves responsible for the opinions expressed by correspondents. No notice will be taken of an
. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. Fig. 93. Fig. 94. that have never laid again after I have received them, and I have sent out splendid tested queens that have shown the same fault in the hands of the recipient. Fertile tjueens from strong stocks, in full lay, with their ovaries loaded with eggs, should not be sent straight off. Reduce the eggs in the ovaries by placing the queen in a small nucleus for a few days before despatching. {To be continued.). The Editors do not hold themselves responsible for the opinions expressed by correspondents. No notice will be taken of anonymous communica- tions, and correspondents are requested to write on one side of the paper only and give their real names and addresses, not necessarily for publica- tion, but as a guarantee of good faith. Illustra- tions should be on separate pieces of paper. We do not undertake to return rejected com- munications. INCUBATION OF BEES, [9300] Please permit me to draw your attention, and that of your subscribers, to a little experiment which I tbink is likely to be one of great interest to our brother apiculturists, as well as of not a Uttle practical utility. It must be now some twenty years ago, more or less, since I had the pleasure of meeting Mr. T. W. Cowan and Mr. W. B. ('arr together at the Eoyal Agricultural Slinw. held that vear at Doncaster. Tlu^- were amused at an incident I mentioned to them, and at a suggestion arising from it. I remarked to them that having upon one occasion cut out some queen cells from one of my hives it had occurred to me to pin them up near a kitchen hot-water cylinder, and that from each cell a fine, healthy young queen had emerged. I then suggested to them the possibility of a bee incubator which I thought might prove exceedingly useful. They laughingly advised me to try the experiment. It un- fortrmately happened that shortly after- wards I was compelled to change my address, and I had not the opportunity of giving a trial to bee in
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