. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. June 10, 1915.] THE BRITISH BEE JOURNAL. 195 2oz.; shellac, 4oz. ; colour with loz. ver- milion for red, for black use ivory black or sufficient lamp black mixed with tur- pentine to colour it; for green, finely powdered verdigris; blue, verditer or smalt; yellow, massicot or chrome; purple, vermilion and smalt. For common bottle wax melt together 18oz. resin, loz. shellac, loz. beeswax, and colour with either red lead, Venetian red, or lamp black. SWARM OF BEES IN A CLOTHING WORKS. A " Constant Reader " sends us this cut- ting f
. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. June 10, 1915.] THE BRITISH BEE JOURNAL. 195 2oz.; shellac, 4oz. ; colour with loz. ver- milion for red, for black use ivory black or sufficient lamp black mixed with tur- pentine to colour it; for green, finely powdered verdigris; blue, verditer or smalt; yellow, massicot or chrome; purple, vermilion and smalt. For common bottle wax melt together 18oz. resin, loz. shellac, loz. beeswax, and colour with either red lead, Venetian red, or lamp black. SWARM OF BEES IN A CLOTHING WORKS. A " Constant Reader " sends us this cut- ting from the Halifax Daily Guardian, and adds this postcript, " And he deserved to be burnt " : — "Consternation was caused in the cloth- ing works of Messrs. Redman Bros., Scar- bottom Mill, Mytholmroyd, on Wednesday, June 2nd, by a swarm of bees from a local apiary taking refuge there. They entered the overlight, which happened to be open, in their hundreds, and flew amongst the girls, causing them to be much alarmed and to cease work. A number of the male workers tried to exterminate the insects. Various methods were used, and as the last resource, a quantity of sulphur was set on fire, but when work finished for the day there were a quantity still left. Mr. John Gibson had the misfortune to have one of his hands badly burnt by burning sulphur getting on to ;. 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 as a guarantee of good faith. Illustrations should be drawn on separate pieces of paper. We do not undertake to return rejected communications. PREVENTING "ISLE OF WIGHT" DISEASE. [9146] I am a constant reader of the "British Bee Jouknal," and find great help from writers of experience who
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