. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. A ROLL OF HONOUR. Although bee-keeping is considered a minor pursuit, we venture to say that it has provided more fighting men than the usual average of any .industry. To place on record the part the members of our craft have played in the present war we propose to make a " Roll of Honour," and shall be pleased if our readers will for- ward us the names and addresses, together with the regiment and rank, of any bee-keeper serving his King and Ck)untry; also if killed or wounded. We have received a number of names, a list of which
. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. A ROLL OF HONOUR. Although bee-keeping is considered a minor pursuit, we venture to say that it has provided more fighting men than the usual average of any .industry. To place on record the part the members of our craft have played in the present war we propose to make a " Roll of Honour," and shall be pleased if our readers will for- ward us the names and addresses, together with the regiment and rank, of any bee-keeper serving his King and Ck)untry; also if killed or wounded. We have received a number of names, a list of which we hope to print shortly, but there are many more bee-keepers who have joined either the Army or Navy whose names have not yet been sent in. We shall be pleased to have them as soon as possible. By " ; The Important Question of Heredity.— M. Pierre Odier discusses in the Bulletin de la Societe Romande d'Apiculteur the question of heredity in queen rearing and the influence exercised by the nurse bees on the progeny, by transmitting to the larvse (and in consequence to the queens that may be raised) their good qualities and defects. He alludes to the discussion of this subject in the lievne Internationale d'Apiculteur in 1892 and 1893, in which leading men of the science, such as M. Metelli, Ch. Dadant, F. KandratiefF, A. de Candolie, T. W. Cowan, Schbnfedt, and others took pavt. He says those engaged in queen rearing would derive profit if they were to re-read these pages. Since that time much experience must have been gained, and he asks those who are able to give the results of their obser- vations. He then gives his own experi- ence. He says that all who raise queens have noticed that it is not always the handsomest that give the best results; and small queens raised in feeble colonies have. often given him more satisfaction. Neither does he think that it is necessary to rear queens in the largest and strongest colonies, for a small nucleus well crowded wit
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