. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. 66 THE BRITISH BEE JOURNAL. [August 1, 1875. meaning offence to none, none will be taken. It is my earnest desire that the show of 1875 should eclipse that of 1874, and be a credit alike to its pro- moters and to the British Bee-keepers' Association, and to that end, and to that only, have I written. In conclusion, I should like to mention three matters that have come under my notice, and which as yet no one has publicly remarked upon. The first is, Mr. Pettigrew's remark on Foul Brood in Journal of Horticulture, June 17, in which he disti
. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. 66 THE BRITISH BEE JOURNAL. [August 1, 1875. meaning offence to none, none will be taken. It is my earnest desire that the show of 1875 should eclipse that of 1874, and be a credit alike to its pro- moters and to the British Bee-keepers' Association, and to that end, and to that only, have I written. In conclusion, I should like to mention three matters that have come under my notice, and which as yet no one has publicly remarked upon. The first is, Mr. Pettigrew's remark on Foul Brood in Journal of Horticulture, June 17, in which he distinctly asserts that the bees do not convey the contagion from one hive to another. A more erroneous state- ment was never made, and unless contradicted would lead into the mire those who believed in it. The next is, the four-legged bee with which Mr. Hunter illustrates his Manual. Are these the ones we may expect to see in class 7 ? And the last is, Mr. Cheshire's ingenious waxing gauge illustrated in The Country of July 15, which if he had ever tried to use before recommending it to others, would no doubt have been accompanied by a mathematical demonstration of how to draw through a 1£ inch aperture, a bar \% inches wide. Really this is too good.—R. Symington. WALTON'S EXTRACTOR. Just a line to say that I went over to Weston the other day, and bought Mr. Walton's Cottage Ex- tractor, and that after a fair trial I find it does its work perfectly. It empties two combs as speedily as his large extractor, and its cheapness will bring it within reach of a great many cottagers, to whom I can thoroughly recommend it. The lime harvest here has been a very poor one, though there are more than 300 fine trees full of blossom within very easy reach of my bees. But the weather has been so unfavour- able, and the nights so cold, that they have again, as last year, stored all below and refused to go up into bell-glasses. The Extractor therefore has been an immense help to me. My Ligurians
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