. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. 458 THE BRITISH BEE JOURNAL. [Nov, 17, 1910. stocK, which he also overhauled and left. This (No. 2) had a splendid lot of bees, but on my examining them a short time ago I found them nearly all dead, and only some five or six bees remaining with the queen, though there was plenty of honey in the hive. I happened to have bought a stock from this apiary just before the expert called, and this is still quite healthy and strong. Shortly afterwards when at market a bee-keeper asked me how my bees Avere getting on, and told me his were nearly al
. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. 458 THE BRITISH BEE JOURNAL. [Nov, 17, 1910. stocK, which he also overhauled and left. This (No. 2) had a splendid lot of bees, but on my examining them a short time ago I found them nearly all dead, and only some five or six bees remaining with the queen, though there was plenty of honey in the hive. I happened to have bought a stock from this apiary just before the expert called, and this is still quite healthy and strong. Shortly afterwards when at market a bee-keeper asked me how my bees Avere getting on, and told me his were nearly all dead. He had about thirty-six stocks; the same expert overhauled this apiary, and now there are only about twelve stocks left. Of course, I cannot say why the bees died, but I do not want this expert to look at my bees. it. But that day is, happily, gone by, and I should always be pleased il anyone woidd tell me anythiug for my good. Most of the experts can talk, but we do not see that they put much on the show- bench as an example to teach us cot- tagers what good bee-produce is like. I enclose my name for reference, and now that I have given you my opinion, which may oe right or wrong, I sign myself—A Cottager Bee-keeper. NATURE-STUDY FOR BOYS. [7971.] Some time ago I paid a visit to the superintendent of the Cottage Homes connected with the Worcester Union, and be very kindly took me over the place, and pointed out to me the. LEARNING TO HANDLE THE FRAME-HIVE. As to the foul-brood question, I fancy if some of our leading men who wish for legislation were to examine the cottager bee-keeper's apiary, which is so often men- tioned as a source of infection, they would find the hives as clean and as free from disease as those of many of the big bee^ keepers. I think that if the importation of foreign queens were stopped it would be a great boon to British bee-keeping. If there is no cure for foul brood, of what advantage would legislation be? and if there is a cure let us app
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