. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. June 22, 191G.] THE BRITISH BEE JOURNAL. 195 Then I said to myself, " My Mary weeps For the dead to-day : Haply her blind old grandsire sleeps The fret and the pain of his age ; But her dog whined low; on the doorway sill, With his cane to his chin, The old man sat; and the chore-girl still Sung to the bees stealing out and in. And the song she was singing ever since In my ear sounds on :— " Stay at home, pretty bees, fly not hence! Mistress Mary is dead and gone! " ECHOES FROM THE HIVES. A record from me may inter
. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. June 22, 191G.] THE BRITISH BEE JOURNAL. 195 Then I said to myself, " My Mary weeps For the dead to-day : Haply her blind old grandsire sleeps The fret and the pain of his age ; But her dog whined low; on the doorway sill, With his cane to his chin, The old man sat; and the chore-girl still Sung to the bees stealing out and in. And the song she was singing ever since In my ear sounds on :— " Stay at home, pretty bees, fly not hence! Mistress Mary is dead and gone! " ECHOES FROM THE HIVES. A record from me may interest and en- courage some of your readers. Last June, 1915, I possessed in Devizes out of five hives a very strong hive on 14 combs which I supered on May 21. May 24, honey out, 24 lbs. June 12, honey out, 31 lbs. June 22, found the 12 shallow combs sealed up with 45 lbs., and besides this they gave me a small box, 10 lbs. Total, 110 lbs. The record was the 44 lbs. gathered and sealed in the fortnight. Owing to removal to a new home I did not send this before. I have just started with a colony of Italians purchased from Mr. C. Overton, and have now three hives, as the original gave me two swarms in May, but there is little honey about. I believe I am the sole possessor of bees in Alfold owing to the ravages of "Isle of Wight " disease. There have been an enormous number of queen wasps, and I offered our children in the schools M. for every one brought in. So far, with what I have myself killed, 1,400 queens have been secured. Has anyone else, I wonder, noticed an unusual number of these pests? Can any of your readers tell me how to distinguish a queen from a drone? Both appear to have stings.—Philip W. G. FiLLEUL (Rev.). Alfold, Billingshurst, Sussex. [The drones are not reared until August or September, and with the workers perish during the winter. The drone has one more segment in the abdo- men. To the ordinary observer, however, the most noticeable difference i
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