. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. Nov. 30, 1899.] THE BRITISH BEE JOURNAL. 475 want the frame hive to stand on a spot about 10 yards distant from where the skep is now located, the ground being very uneven. Would there be any danger of the bees flying back to the old stand and getting lost, or would they take to the new home as a swarm or as a driven lot ? I do not want to move the skep a short distance at a time if it can be avoided, as it is placed on a fixed stand, and would be very awkward to move. A brief reply in the columns of your valuable journal—which I have take
. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. Nov. 30, 1899.] THE BRITISH BEE JOURNAL. 475 want the frame hive to stand on a spot about 10 yards distant from where the skep is now located, the ground being very uneven. Would there be any danger of the bees flying back to the old stand and getting lost, or would they take to the new home as a swarm or as a driven lot ? I do not want to move the skep a short distance at a time if it can be avoided, as it is placed on a fixed stand, and would be very awkward to move. A brief reply in the columns of your valuable journal—which I have taken in for the last two years—will oblige.—W. E. Spiees, Worcester. Eeplt.—Under the circumstances named we advise placing the frame - hive near the spot where the skep now stands, and as soon as convenient the latter may be placed above the top bars (as it is proposed to do next spring). In the meantime, however, allow the bees to use the ordinary skep en- trance by fixing a square board above the fiames and setting the skep thereon. Measures must, of course, be taken for pro- tecting the lower hive from wet or damp, and when the bees have flown a few times from their new position the hives may be moved a few feet at a time towards the stand they are to occupy permanently. [2307.] Benches for Hive Stands.~l shall be much obliged if, in next issue of your useful Journal, you will inform me if there are any objections to benches for hives. I propose to make a long bench about a foot high for the accommodation of my hives, boarding a portion of each hive so that while attending to the bees I may stand on it any article I may be using instead of on the ground. My reason for asking the question is that in the Journal of November 9, in your introductory remarks to *' Homes of the Honey Bee " you appear to refer to them somewhat doubtfully.—W. T. C, Soutkvnek, near Brirjliton, November 23. Eeplt.—The disadvantage of using a single bench or stand for a number of hives i
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