. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. Sept. 28, 1911.] THE BRITISH BEE JOURNAL. 387 I proved a great success. I would not take ten dollars for it if I could not make another. How easy it is to shake a swarm into a basket, let the bees through, and find the queen!" Mr. Root adds: "Several of our correspondents liave found that they can shake black bees in front of an entrance-guard, and after the bees are all in find the queen on the ; Here we have little difficulty in finding queens, but with a very strong lot <if bees the foregoing might save a large
. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. Sept. 28, 1911.] THE BRITISH BEE JOURNAL. 387 I proved a great success. I would not take ten dollars for it if I could not make another. How easy it is to shake a swarm into a basket, let the bees through, and find the queen!" Mr. Root adds: "Several of our correspondents liave found that they can shake black bees in front of an entrance-guard, and after the bees are all in find the queen on the ; Here we have little difficulty in finding queens, but with a very strong lot <if bees the foregoing might save a large amount of very warm and exhausting Mork. Intcrrsting.—Mr. Wesley Foster writes: assertion that there is a veiy large amount of infant mortality in the brood nest. Thousands of eggs in a season fail to mature into the perfect bee. Close observers have drawn my attention to this fact repeatedly, and my own observation confirms that even in a perfectly healthy hive there are at times suspicious signs which need not cause alarm. Arfipcidi Pollen.—The American quoting from a German source, says: •• As a substitute for pollen, flour from the legumes, as peas and beans, is greatly superior to that from the grains. The latter contains only 10 to 12 per cent, of. .\ HOME-MADE OHSERVATGRV HIVE. •• My queens lay on the average eggs from loth May to loth June; 10,000 of these, for one reason or another, fail to hatch, so 30,000 is what I get in new- workers for this month. Now if a queen lays 80,000 eggs in May and June, and (dO,000 of them hatch into bees, the prob- ability is she will maintain throughout the honey flow a little over 50,000 workers. The . mortality amongst bees is very heavy, but from watching the brood nest I am confident the heaviest loss is in the egg, larva and pupa ; The subject deserves a little study. I am con- fident Mr. Foster is quite correct in his nitrogenous matter, as against 20 to 26 per cent, in the legumes, which more
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