. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. 356 THE BRITISH BEE JOURNAL. July 22, 1080. tied a string round the bottom, then cut the thistle down and took the lot home. When there he set an old cheese box near the neck of the shirt, untied the string, and they aU walked into the box. They gave 25 lbs. of honey, but, alas 1 the " Brimstone Pit" ended the liees. I have never known so many queens to get lost as this year. I have had two swarms without a queen, and to-day I have hived a swarm I took yesterday late in the evening off a pear iree, but again I failed to find a qu
. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. 356 THE BRITISH BEE JOURNAL. July 22, 1080. tied a string round the bottom, then cut the thistle down and took the lot home. When there he set an old cheese box near the neck of the shirt, untied the string, and they aU walked into the box. They gave 25 lbs. of honey, but, alas 1 the " Brimstone Pit" ended the liees. I have never known so many queens to get lost as this year. I have had two swarms without a queen, and to-day I have hived a swarm I took yesterday late in the evening off a pear iree, but again I failed to find a queen. They came out of one of my own hives on June 11, but returned again. They had eleven brood bars in the hive, and two racks of shal- low bars on nearly finished. I cut out all queen cells, but they came out again on June 12. There were about 7 lbs. of them. A friend tells me he had a swarm come out three weeks ago, but he failed to find the queen. Three days after he found her with about twenty bees some yards away, dead. One of my hives swarmed about the same time, and I found the queen and about twenty bees on the garden about ten yards away. Can you say why so many queens should drop? [We cannot give any explanation beyond that for some reason the queens were unable to fly far.—Eds.] Like Mr. Oldham (10195, June 10) I find that when some of the bees we now have make up their minds to swarm they will do so. I have had a case this year where one lot swarmed, although they had ten brood frames, four of which they had Bot begun to draw out, and two racks of shallow bars on, so they had plenty of room, yet out they came. I find it best to mix two or three of the small lots together, and let the queens fight it out.—C. Reed. Honey Imports. '<=•!'" Tlie registered value of honey imported into the United Kingdom during the month of March was dGl8,963, April £7,854, May £15,183, and .June £30,493. —From a return furnished by the Statis- tical Office, Custo
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