. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. l! THE BRITISH BEE JOURNAL. [April 23, 1896. latter has been filled with broken combs— pressed close down by the loose lid laid over all—the boiler is filled with cold water until the wax-holder is completely submerged. As the water heats the wax melts and passes upward to the surface of water above, on which it floats till removed, when cold, as a solid cake of clean wax, the debris being retained in the ;. Fig. 2. Mr. Meadows informs us that he has made some further improvements in existing appli- ances of his own make wh
. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. l! THE BRITISH BEE JOURNAL. [April 23, 1896. latter has been filled with broken combs— pressed close down by the loose lid laid over all—the boiler is filled with cold water until the wax-holder is completely submerged. As the water heats the wax melts and passes upward to the surface of water above, on which it floats till removed, when cold, as a solid cake of clean wax, the debris being retained in the ;. Fig. 2. Mr. Meadows informs us that he has made some further improvements in existing appli- ances of his own make which tend to place them in the list of" Novelties" of which we may give particulars later. [Other appliance-manufacturers will oblige by forwarding illustrations and descriptions of " Novelties " they may desire to bring before bee-keepers for insertion in this column.— Eds.] EARLY SWARMS. The Rev. E. Davenport (who is now on an "Expert" tour), dating from Evesham on Monday, the 20th inst., writes :— " I have this day met with the first swarm for this year, so far as I know. It came off in the apiary of Mr. Bent, of Evesham, and was a very fine swarm indeed. All hives are boiling over with bees, and sections are filling ; We have also had the following cutting sent us from the Northampton Mercury of ihe 10th inst. :—"Mr. W. J. BlackwelJ, of Stanwick Hall, had a swarm of bees on Tuesday last. The bees, which were strong and in good con- dition, alighted on an iron fence along the carriage drive to the ; gurries and lilies. [1-155.] Bees Dying in Hive—Noticing in February last that no bets came out on warm days from one of my hives, I lifted quilt, and found them all dead. There were scarcely 2<)0 in the hive. I had meant to join them to another stock in the autumn, but they were at least 100 yards from the next one, and I did not have time to move tbcm up, to let them take their chance. On examining combs,
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