. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 1918 AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL 61 hear them roaring and then pound on the hive while the others were flying. BIRDIE M. HARTLE, Reynoldsville, Pa. Your anxiety for the welfare of the bees is commendable, but in this case hardly well founded. Please note that you are advised to pound on the hives of those that are quiet while others are flying, and not after they have ceased flying. If it is warm enough for them to fly they will likely be flying within five minutes after you begin pounding, and as it is not at all likely to cool down in- stantaneously, they
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 1918 AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL 61 hear them roaring and then pound on the hive while the others were flying. BIRDIE M. HARTLE, Reynoldsville, Pa. Your anxiety for the welfare of the bees is commendable, but in this case hardly well founded. Please note that you are advised to pound on the hives of those that are quiet while others are flying, and not after they have ceased flying. If it is warm enough for them to fly they will likely be flying within five minutes after you begin pounding, and as it is not at all likely to cool down in- stantaneously, they are practically sure of having abundance of time to fly if they should. Indeed, if you should delay pounding until flying had about ceased, any colony that had not flown would still find it warm enough to fly if any flight should be heeded. You say "the large amount of honey they had taken up * * * might cause ; So it might if they consumed the honey, but car- rying honey up and emptying it in the cells is entirely different from consuming it. for in the former case there is no loading of the intestines, and in the latter there is. Loading the honey-sac with honey does not produce dysentery, but loading the intestines with what remains after digestion does. It would do no harm to listen at the entrance, but it would hardly do any good, for if the bees should be stirred up to the point of roaring, they would quite surely be 'Beedonv^ 'Boiled T>owiv; I Italians Resist I. O. W. Disease I have had a good year, as trade has been good for both bees and honey. Isle of Wight disease is still with us, but the nearer pure Italians I keep, the less I lose with it. I have never lost a pure Italian stock. HERBERT WATTS, Holmleigh, England. No Failure in Ontario I extracted over two tons of clover and basswood honey from thirty colonies of bees and sold it all at IS cents per pound. I am a beginner with bees, but like them very much. Being a machinist, I have
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