. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. Dec. 14, 1911.] THE BRITISH BEE JOURNAL. 497 above. Nectar in the fields was abundant, of space there was ample, and the workers were willing. What wonder, then, that the work went right merrily on. The interior measured 20in. by 13in. by 13in. One wonders how the pliant wax could bear the weight. There were two perfectly straight built combs of these dimensions each measuring 260 square inches, or the two together 520 cubic inches. It was not possible to measure the other combs; they were irregularly built, as we know they often are, but
. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. Dec. 14, 1911.] THE BRITISH BEE JOURNAL. 497 above. Nectar in the fields was abundant, of space there was ample, and the workers were willing. What wonder, then, that the work went right merrily on. The interior measured 20in. by 13in. by 13in. One wonders how the pliant wax could bear the weight. There were two perfectly straight built combs of these dimensions each measuring 260 square inches, or the two together 520 cubic inches. It was not possible to measure the other combs; they were irregularly built, as we know they often are, but every possible inch was filled, and the contents being weighed struck the beam at 1031b. vicious lot of bees using their lancets re- morselessly, you, too, would have been glad to place it gently and safely on its side and trust to Providence. Nor is it "professional" for an expert to wear a veil. But if the bees, scornmg the power of the human eye, find a delight in going tor that same organ, or the nose, being prominent, and getting there, I commend his discretion as being the better part of valour. Of the driving of those bees from the box and the cutting out of the combs the expert writes nothing. Those who have essayed a similar task, when the bees will. BEES IN A BOX. It would have been a pity not to have preserved a photographic record of such a "take," and therefore the Rev. E. C. Spicer, the fortunate owner of the hive, brought the camera into action. Now I know that critics will at once say, "What a very stujDid fellow that expert was to turn the box on its side. Why did he not place the box so that the combs hung per- pendicular?" Perfectly true, my dear critics, but if you had a box filled with honey weighing nearly one hundred- weight and a quarter on the top of a frame- hive threatening to topple over from head- weight, and in addition a remarkably stick in the farthest corner and the combs begin to break, know the delights of the wor
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