. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. April 27, 191G.] THE BRITISH BEE JOURNAL. 135. The Editors do not hold themselves responsible for the opinions expressed by correspondents. No notice will be taken of anonymous communications, and correspondents are requested to write on one side of the paper only and give their real names and addresses, not necessarily for publication, but a$ a guarantee of good faith. Illustrations should be drawn on separate pieces of paper. We do not undertake to return rejected communications. BEE-KEEPING EXPERIENCES IN 1915. [9,260J I send an account
. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. April 27, 191G.] THE BRITISH BEE JOURNAL. 135. The Editors do not hold themselves responsible for the opinions expressed by correspondents. No notice will be taken of anonymous communications, and correspondents are requested to write on one side of the paper only and give their real names and addresses, not necessarily for publication, but a$ a guarantee of good faith. Illustrations should be drawn on separate pieces of paper. We do not undertake to return rejected communications. BEE-KEEPING EXPERIENCES IN 1915. [9,260J I send an account of my ex- periences last year in case you may think them of sufficient general interest to pub- lish. At the beginning of 1915 I was for- tunate enough to have three stocks alive, many bee-keep-ers round here having lost all. Here is the record of the three hives, condensed from notes which I made dur- ing the year. Hive No. 1 :—Italians, with 1914 queen. Examined April 15th, bees covering six frames. I had suspicions of " Isle of Wight " disease in my apiary at the very beginning of the year, but this stock pro- gressed normally throughout May, June and July, except that on three days, May 10th, 15th, and June 28th the same thing happened. Whilst apparently all right at midday, in the evening there were between one and two hundred dead and dying bees on the ground in front of the hive. On each occasion I sprayed the alighting board and ground with Izal, mixed with water in the usual proportion, and in two or three days the bees were all right again and " carrying-on " as if nothing had happened. From this stock I took 70 lbs. of extracted honey at the end of (Very little, work was done in July owing to bad weather.) During August and September I was away from home, and when I returned I found this stock rapidly failing from " Isle of Wight " disease. I sprayed the bees with Simmins' B-well mixture, and the crawling stopped almost immediat
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