. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. Aug. 28, 1919. THE BEITISH BEE JOURNAL. 377 she must therefore cross tlie bee spacej between upper and lower chambers manyl times a day. It has been proved tim^ andi again that sectioned brood nests ai'ei decidedly objected to by queens, so much so that the apiarist is compelled to resort to inversion to compel the queen to filll both, and keep them full. The small frame in two storeys has one advantage only, and that is that the con- traction of the brood nest is simpler when preparations are being made for winter- ing. Perfectly flat com
. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. Aug. 28, 1919. THE BEITISH BEE JOURNAL. 377 she must therefore cross tlie bee spacej between upper and lower chambers manyl times a day. It has been proved tim^ andi again that sectioned brood nests ai'ei decidedly objected to by queens, so much so that the apiarist is compelled to resort to inversion to compel the queen to filll both, and keep them full. The small frame in two storeys has one advantage only, and that is that the con- traction of the brood nest is simpler when preparations are being made for winter- ing. Perfectly flat combs are easier tO' obtain with small frames, but this is a/ matter of skill and experience in the case of large frames. There is no question, in my opinion, andi in the opinion of the rest of the bee-keep- ing world, that Britisli bee-keepers made a gross mistake in fixing the standard at 14 in. X 85 in. It ought to have been Mr. Simmins' 16 in. x 10 in., or even more. Let me here §tate that hives of more than lO^frames of 14 in. x 8^ in. in one storey are a mistake. The brood cluster is a sphere, and there is no use making the dimensions in plan more than a square* , you gain nothing by having a brood chamber longer than the length of the frame.—H. M. Stich, A Re-Queening Puzzle. [0896] On Thursday, the 14th inst., a friend of mine who has one straw skep of native bees asked me what I should advise, as they did not know if the ekep had swarmed or not this season, and the bees w^ere hanging outside the hive in a large cluster. I went and saw them, and decided to fetch a frame of brood and eggs from a Ligurian stock of my own bees and place this in a frame hive which he had with drawn-out combs. I drove the clustering bees on to the wing, picked up the skep and carried it away some dis- tance, then I placed the frame hive in the place where I moved the skep from, and the flying bees soon took possession. I have been to-day (the 18th, four days later), and to my s
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