. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. April 1, 1876.] THE BRITISH BEE JOURNAL. 227 Those minute, death-dealing little germs, micro- cocci, have, to many a bee-keeper's cost and sorrow, been introduced by buying or lending -such a frame, unconscious of the invisible agent of destruction that accompanied them. Foul brood in England is not now so wide-spread but that it can be stamped out; but introduce a standard frame and how great is the risk of infection increased. The innocent amateur purchases such, the seller being, perhaps, no wiser than the party purchasing. Or, as I hav
. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. April 1, 1876.] THE BRITISH BEE JOURNAL. 227 Those minute, death-dealing little germs, micro- cocci, have, to many a bee-keeper's cost and sorrow, been introduced by buying or lending -such a frame, unconscious of the invisible agent of destruction that accompanied them. Foul brood in England is not now so wide-spread but that it can be stamped out; but introduce a standard frame and how great is the risk of infection increased. The innocent amateur purchases such, the seller being, perhaps, no wiser than the party purchasing. Or, as I have known cases where, owing to disease, an apiary has dwindled until the owner, at last disgusted with his bad success, sells all he can dispose of to realise a trifle, at the same time unconscious of the injury he is doing. It may be replied,' Such can now be the case.' True, but will it not be increased and aided by a standard frame when so many would have the same size and be eager to purchase ? Standard frames would not tend to make practical bee-keepers in the future, for instead of as now cut- ting combs out of various sized frames, and so man- ipulating a little, this would he discarded for a wholesale purchase of frames with comb in, as an easy resort. Such a frame would, to a serious extent, confine the inventive faculties and desire for improvement in hives, as is manifestly not the case now when we look at the most notable bee-keepers in all countries differing so much in their construction and size of frame. Wherein does a great deal of the beauty and in- terest of bee-keeping lie ? Is it not in carrying out new ideas in size of frame and hives amongst the other furniture ? Having thus stated my objections, I cannot coin- cide with Mr. Desborough that the subject is of great importance further than keeping the contents of a hive equal to 1800 to 2000 cubic inches as a standard not to be reduced, of which there is no mention in his letter. Subjects of far greater impo
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