. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. QUEEN. dab of white or red paint, and when seen she would almost invariably be found surrounded by a set of courtiers, as shown in the cut. After the eye had a. little tuition with a queen illuminated as suggested, there would he little difficulty in detecting other royal dames, however clad or surrounded. The method sug- gested for making artificial swarms would, in a measure, succeed; but would be very wasteful. Instead of taking a comb or two, with queen-cells on one of them, a comb with the queen herself should be taken, and put into t
. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. QUEEN. dab of white or red paint, and when seen she would almost invariably be found surrounded by a set of courtiers, as shown in the cut. After the eye had a. little tuition with a queen illuminated as suggested, there would he little difficulty in detecting other royal dames, however clad or surrounded. The method sug- gested for making artificial swarms would, in a measure, succeed; but would be very wasteful. Instead of taking a comb or two, with queen-cells on one of them, a comb with the queen herself should be taken, and put into the new hive on the old stand (as suggested), and all would be correct. To give bees egress from conservatories, cut away a quaiter inch space from the front edge of the ' plate ' on which the glass eaves rest. The aperture will be sufficient to allow bees to pass, but can be closed with a strip of wood or a short bit of cord, to keep out the cold air when ventilation is not needed. ' Prevention is better than cure,' and covering the ventilators with mosquito netting would save many hundreds of bees. If anything we have tried to elucidate has not been made, plain, we shall be glad if you will inquire further, or if vou are ever in our neighbourhood, and will favour us with a call, we will undertake to show you all we have tried to explain.—Ed.] Honey a Remedial Agent in the Restoration of Sight.—A correspondent in Church Bells (May 29) says : — 'I am desirous of your inserting a remedy, which has lately come to my personal knowledge, of a gradual restoration of sight to a person of about 55 years of age, whose eyes had been pronounced to have cataract by a clever medical practitioner, and that nothing could he done till sufficiently advanced to be operated on. The person heard, some time afterwards, that the simple pro- cess of anointing three times daily, with pure and fresh honey, first cleansing the lids of the eyes before applying it, would remove cataract. She tried t
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