. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. 124 THE BHITISH BEE JOTEXAL. [Maicli 27, 1913. "almost impovssible," and he replies by saying that he employed these Avords in- tentionally because he might not appear to be too hard upon me and others " who have needlessly lost many stocks by the ' Isle of Wight ' ; I cannot speak for the "others," but in dealing with me I do not want Mr. Simmins to wear soft gloves, because I am prepared to receive hard blows. The discussion not, however, been without definite results, for I have got from Mr. Si
. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. 124 THE BHITISH BEE JOTEXAL. [Maicli 27, 1913. "almost impovssible," and he replies by saying that he employed these Avords in- tentionally because he might not appear to be too hard upon me and others " who have needlessly lost many stocks by the ' Isle of Wight ' ; I cannot speak for the "others," but in dealing with me I do not want Mr. Simmins to wear soft gloves, because I am prepared to receive hard blows. The discussion not, however, been without definite results, for I have got from Mr. Simmins a series of confessions which it will be useful to remember when he again writes albout " more self-help being wanted," "vital recuperative the references will see that only one of these confessions is direct; but the others, I think, are fairly deduced from the con- text. Mr. Simmins does not say directly in his correspondence what his system of treatment is, but we may arrive at it by the inductive method. First, the bee- keeiJer with "Isle of Wight" di-sease in his apiary must buy a bottle of mixture and, according to directions, sjjray, or sprinkle it over the bees ; secondly, destix)y the queen, whether old or young, and liurcliase an immune (sic) one in June; and thirdly, swarm or divide the stock, presumably getting one or more extra. MR. T. UARDXEr's APIARV AT SFRl^NG FIELD TERRACE GATESHEAD. energy," " tone to the system," or " re- cuperative manipulation" (the latter phrase, I take it, means holding all the crawling bees, if not every member of the stock, in the "warm, moist hand for a few minutes") I summarize his admis- sions as follows, the figures relating to the pages of the "; on which they appear:— He is not in a position to .state what is the definite origin of the malady (98). It is possible ("almost impossible" changed to " absolutely impossible," 97) for
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