. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. 334 THE BRITISH BEE JOURNAL. [Aug. 27, 1914. after the settling. When recording heavy swarms it is always more interesting to give such details as those furnished by W. Mountney (9044). A Little Arithmetic (p. 261).—Mr. Small wood must forgive me. I forgot that figures might be a- sore point with him, but I little knew that he would claim poetic license for mathematics. I can readily believe that he has not attempted to work my foolish problem, or he would have discovered that no "deci- mal fraction" was involved. Perhaps when co
. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. 334 THE BRITISH BEE JOURNAL. [Aug. 27, 1914. after the settling. When recording heavy swarms it is always more interesting to give such details as those furnished by W. Mountney (9044). A Little Arithmetic (p. 261).—Mr. Small wood must forgive me. I forgot that figures might be a- sore point with him, but I little knew that he would claim poetic license for mathematics. I can readily believe that he has not attempted to work my foolish problem, or he would have discovered that no "deci- mal fraction" was involved. Perhaps when cooler weather comes he may try it. But may the hot weather last, for we brethren of the moor have our bees at the heather, and we look to the ling to improve an otherwise unsatisfactory year. " Hoping for a better season next ; Hiving Purchased Sees (p. 265).— Another simple method is to stand the travelling skep upright on the hiving board. Before doing so make sure that the final untying can be quickly accom- plished. "When in place the cloth is spread out flat upon the hiving board and the skep lifted up. The bulk of the bees will be upon the cloth ready to run into the hive, and a few taps upon the skep will dislodge the rest. "New Zealand Box Hives'" (p. 276).— Really, I hardly know what to say to Mr. Hopkins. His standpoint appears so opposed to my own, so antipodean, that we probably could not agree. He seems to me to consider two irreconcilable things as one, which makes agreement hopeless. So that I am reduced to flat negatives, which is regrettble but neces- sary; for I am not "convinced against my ; I have the will to be con- vinced, but remain unconvinced that the skep hive is an evil thing. His involved statement of comparative evil is amusing, but quite absurd, being based on the mis- conception referred to above, and the differing use in different countries of the- same term, " box ; As already stat
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