. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. Fig. 31. Fig. 32. {To be continued.). 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. WHO IS RIGHT? In the " ; of July 17th, Mr. Herrod-H
. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. Fig. 31. Fig. 32. {To be continued.). 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. WHO IS RIGHT? In the " ; of July 17th, Mr. Herrod-Hempsall, in his useful hints for beginners (and for old hands as well!), states that queens should on no account be bred from yearling mothers, and that a good mother should be bred from even in her fifth year. Far be it from me to contradict Mr. Herrod-Hempsall, the guide and counsellor of beginners. There is only one man whose contradiction of him can have any real weight—and that is Mr. Herrod- Hempsall, the Junior editor of this journal. Now, in the self-same issue of the "," the latter called the attention of readers to Mr. S. Simmins's book, "A Modern Bee Farm," whence (as he says nothing to the contrary) we must conclude that he endorses its teachings—among others, that no queen should on any ac- count be bred from anything older than a yearling mother. Moreover, I seem to recollect that, not so long ago, the " ; came out with a most fulsome eulogy of Mr. Simmins's book, expressmg no dissent from any of its doctrnies. Whom, then, is the ordinary perplexed bee-keeper to believe—Mr. Herrod-Hemp- sall the guide, or Mr. Herrod-Hempsall the editor ? To speak frankly, the position strikes me as little short of ludicrous. Here are the small bee-keepers of England anxiously struggling against a strange disease and looking to their more experienced brethren for advice. For aught we know, the age of queen-mothers may be the very crux
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