. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. September 18, 1890.] THE BRITISH BEE JOURNAL. 440 shows the 'long firm' fraud is not confined to the milk trade, and the deputation from the milk-producers, whicli I see is to call the atten- tion of the Minister of Agriculture to this matter, might as well comhine the two interests. âE. S. Rkad, Arundel. [We will gladly assist in any practical scheme for protecting bee-keepers from fraud; but, in the meantime, would strongly advise them not to part with their produce without a reference in any case.âEds.] THE SIMPLE SUPER CLEARER. [;US.]
. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. September 18, 1890.] THE BRITISH BEE JOURNAL. 440 shows the 'long firm' fraud is not confined to the milk trade, and the deputation from the milk-producers, whicli I see is to call the atten- tion of the Minister of Agriculture to this matter, might as well comhine the two interests. âE. S. Rkad, Arundel. [We will gladly assist in any practical scheme for protecting bee-keepers from fraud; but, in the meantime, would strongly advise them not to part with their produce without a reference in any case.âEds.] THE SIMPLE SUPER CLEARER. [;US.] Being responsible for giving to the bee-world the above little invention, I think a few words in reply to ' Stanmer' (^41) will not be out of place. First of all, I may say that simple as the thing is, it did not occur to me all at once. However, it is not my intention to entertain j'our readers with a history of my failures and partial successes before I hit upon the right plan : I only wish to assure tbem that I did not make my modus operandi for clearing supers public without first applymg it to my own bees and those of neighbouring friends. Finding it in every instance a complete success, I distributed a large number of the cones among customers, and awaited their reports again before writing to the Journal. In practice it will be found that young and old bees alike will escape through the funnels and re-enter by the ordinary entrance into the stock hive. It is too generally assumed that young bees cannot fly, simply because imder ordinary cir- cumstances they do not fly. It should not be forgotten that bees, like other insects, emerge from the nymph state as perfect insects. Under a natural impulse young bees, lilce old bees, can and will fly. This natural impulse seems to seize the young bee when stimulated by the example of its elder sisters; it leaves the super of its own accord, and emerges into the open air through the funnels. If we shake a young bee roughly from t
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