. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. July 14, 1892.] THE BRITISH BEE JOURNAL. 271 E. C. R. White (Salisbury).— Queen cast out after Swarming.—The queen sent lias been ruptured in some way, as well as having an injured wing. Under such circumstances bees will generally cast out queens which have been injured. You must leave them to raise another queen. Stocks may be re-queened in autumn or in spring as convenient. We should not be very anxious to kill off queens of 1891 which ' have done exceptionally well this year,' unless we had surplus queens on hand. If you can raise quee
. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. July 14, 1892.] THE BRITISH BEE JOURNAL. 271 E. C. R. White (Salisbury).— Queen cast out after Swarming.—The queen sent lias been ruptured in some way, as well as having an injured wing. Under such circumstances bees will generally cast out queens which have been injured. You must leave them to raise another queen. Stocks may be re-queened in autumn or in spring as convenient. We should not be very anxious to kill off queens of 1891 which ' have done exceptionally well this year,' unless we had surplus queens on hand. If you can raise queen-cells in your own hives for re-queening, do so instead of purchasing. A. D. Scott (Ventnor).—The bees in skep are evidently not strong enough in numbers to make them take to the frame hive below. If they make sufficient headway to want more room, they will do so, no doubt; meantime, are you sure the skep had not swarmed before you purchased it ? Ernest A. S. Cotterell.—A Beginners Queries.—1. Comb sent is diseased. The smell of foul brood is often very offensive, but we cannot exactly say ' what the smell is like.' 2. Naphthaline is sold in so many forms and of such different strength that we can only be responsible for the effect of such aa we have seen. In some forms it is rath«r dangerous in use, and we have had instances of brood being killed by its use in a too powerful form. 3. Bee-houses, if not kept clean, do harbour insects. 4. There is nothing unusual in a few dead bees being thrown out. A. Mitchell (Bristol).—.Bees Deposing Queens. —There is no accounting for bees occasionally deposing queens as in your case, and it is an undoubted fact that they do so more fre- quently than is supposed. They will no doubt raise a successor to the queen thrown out. Errata.—In first paragraph of ' Useful Hints ' last week for 'Sussex' read Essex; and on p. 258, in last paragraph of M. Balden- sperger's letter, for ' hornets ' read locusts. Several articles, queries,
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