. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. 326 THE BRITISH BEE JOURNAL. [July 25, 1889. the hive should be square ; the inside measurement from side to side should be 10 iuches, to accommodate eleven Hive, showing Floor-board, Brood-chamber, Super, Hoof. (To be continued.) CAHNIOLANS. [2239.] Seeing' opinion of C'arniolans, No. 2229, , 11th inst., I hoped to have seen recorded in your issue of the 18th the experience of some others. I will now give mine, which I will confine to this season, although it had some little to do with them last year. In September or
. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. 326 THE BRITISH BEE JOURNAL. [July 25, 1889. the hive should be square ; the inside measurement from side to side should be 10 iuches, to accommodate eleven Hive, showing Floor-board, Brood-chamber, Super, Hoof. (To be continued.) CAHNIOLANS. [2239.] Seeing' opinion of C'arniolans, No. 2229, , 11th inst., I hoped to have seen recorded in your issue of the 18th the experience of some others. I will now give mine, which I will confine to this season, although it had some little to do with them last year. In September or October last I received from Mr. Benton, of Laibach, six Carniolan queeDS. All arrived in good condi'ion, and I was not kept waiting for them as I have been by English breeders and importers. I think it due to Mr. Benton to mention this, as about that time some reflection was cast by a writer in the , on the buna fides of queen-exporters. These queens were purchased for five friends and myself. One I introduced to a strong stock of blacks belonging to a neighbour, whose bees are within twenty yards of mine. In passiDg her into the queen-cage (Alley's) I acci- dentally injured one of her wings. This stock wintered well, came out strong in the spring, and having an abundant supply of store required little or no feeding. A section crate was put on early in May, but little work was done in it. About the end of that month they swarmed and went back again. Two days after, passing the hive I noticed a tmall cluster of bees on the ground in front, and finding the queen among them I placed her on the alighting board, but the bees would not allow her to enter the hive. 1 then made a nucleus of three frames from the stock and put her into it. A few days later I found that the bees had destroyed her and raised four queen-cells, the old stock having fifteen. A day or two before these young queens hatched my Carniolans swarmed, and went into this hive. I removed the queen and about six
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