. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. A CHEAP HIVE-LEVEL. iron base-plate. The "tin" is bent at right angles along the upper edge, and a centre line is squared down its face, the line passing through the nail. Side lines may be added to give an equal amount of forward tilt to the hives if desired. The sketch shows the device in use, and also an enlarged section.—R. Grose, Bodmin. CURRENT TOPICS. [7721.] Breeding a Strain of Bees.—I note that Mr. Woodley says (page 486) that the driven lot of bees he mentioned were originally a swarm from his own apiary, but this scar
. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. A CHEAP HIVE-LEVEL. iron base-plate. The "tin" is bent at right angles along the upper edge, and a centre line is squared down its face, the line passing through the nail. Side lines may be added to give an equal amount of forward tilt to the hives if desired. The sketch shows the device in use, and also an enlarged section.—R. Grose, Bodmin. CURRENT TOPICS. [7721.] Breeding a Strain of Bees.—I note that Mr. Woodley says (page 486) that the driven lot of bees he mentioned were originally a swarm from his own apiary, but this scarcely entitles them to be called a strain. Mr. Woodley's bees are, I take it, as English as English bees are or can be at the present time, and that is not saying a great deal. For it is practically impossible to avoid contami- nation with the yellow races. Many years ago the "Renfrewshire Bee-keeper" gave an instance of cross-mating- by Italian his queens individually—his drones are selected "in the lump" or collectively. One can imagine him saying to his fifty or hundred young queens: " Now, my beauties, here are some twenty to fifty thousand prospective husbands on the wing, and I do hope that most of you will choose the handsomest and yellowest drones you can ; And the result? Well, it is quite as good as we can reason- ably hope for, albeit only a little more than half of his queens mate exactly as he desires. Brace-combs.—These, says Mr. Craw- shaw (page 499), cannot be said to "brace" when they are only attached' to the separators. I quite agree. What, then, shall we call such? I suggest " freak "-combs. He further suggests that the narrower, no-bee-way sections will probably be more free from brace-combs than the ordinary 2-in. sections. This is a "curious instance of the same idea striking; two minds at about the same. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have be
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