. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. Dec. 24, 1908.] THE BRITISH BEE JOURNAL. 515 to pass back into the blood, and the sys- tem becomes contaminated, giving rise to acute pains—gout (,?.). This would ap- pear, then, to be due to a state or con- dition of the blood. I understand that formic acid, coming in contact with uric acid, neutralises it, forming a perfectly harmless compound. As one's state of vitality is for ever changing, there may be at any time a surcharge of uric acid, and consequently a recurrence of the malady ; but the bee-keeper is constantly liable to a sting
. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. Dec. 24, 1908.] THE BRITISH BEE JOURNAL. 515 to pass back into the blood, and the sys- tem becomes contaminated, giving rise to acute pains—gout (,?.). This would ap- pear, then, to be due to a state or con- dition of the blood. I understand that formic acid, coming in contact with uric acid, neutralises it, forming a perfectly harmless compound. As one's state of vitality is for ever changing, there may be at any time a surcharge of uric acid, and consequently a recurrence of the malady ; but the bee-keeper is constantly liable to a sting, and certainly at times gets one, or may be more, so he is fre- quently introducing into his system a check to the securing enough to carry them through the winter besides. Sixty-three sections from a single colony was my previous record. There is just as great diversity on the debit side of the balance-sheet. One or two cases that have come under my notice will illustrate this point. Thir- teen years ago a man obtained a colony of bees that had made its home in the crown of a pollard elm tree. From this small and inexpensive beginning, by the addition of swarms and driven bees, an apiary of between twenty and thirty colonies has been built up, with no further outlay than the cost of the annual sub- scription to a bee - association - which every bee - keeper should make it a point to in- cur—and tim- ber necessary for the making of hives, and just the smal- lest amount of apparatus with which to work. Working on these lines, it is not at all sur- prising that o u r friend "D. M. ; puts the profits as high as cent, per cent. The above might be p u t m u c h higher. Another started bee- keeping with a n u c1e us of Lignrian bees in a most elabo- rate hive at a cost of £5, and although that w a s several years ago, I be- the same garden, mfssrs. odier and meyer's apiary, xyox, Switzerland, iieve neither yet neither the stocks for transferring and swarming. the hi
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