. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. 256 THE BRITISH BEE JOURNAL. [June 25, 1914. " burr," and are you not, by lending your countenance to the above, running some risk oif renewed hostilities? Doomed to Extinction (p. 182).—(9) I take it that these interesting extracts are quotations, but " D. M. ; labels them facts. As such they would seem to be open to exception. For instance, No. 9 dooms a colony to extinction, but there are several possible ways in which it might be saved. An entering swarm is perhaps in- admissible, but a stray queen might save it.
. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. 256 THE BRITISH BEE JOURNAL. [June 25, 1914. " burr," and are you not, by lending your countenance to the above, running some risk oif renewed hostilities? Doomed to Extinction (p. 182).—(9) I take it that these interesting extracts are quotations, but " D. M. ; labels them facts. As such they would seem to be open to exception. For instance, No. 9 dooms a colony to extinction, but there are several possible ways in which it might be saved. An entering swarm is perhaps in- admissible, but a stray queen might save it. And we are not without some testi- mony that bees in desperate case occa- sionally steal eggs. Probably these are nigger bees! Thickness of New Comb (p. 182).—(19) I have just made some measurements, and these do not agree with the T^oin- given by " D. M. ; Not only is the piece of natural comb which I have measured much thinner than this, but there is a difference between the thicknesses of base and wall, and between ''drone " and " ; The latter difference can actually be seen when the comb is held to the light, and the measurements lead me to challenge the oft-repeated statement that there is con- siderable economy of wax in drone comb. The portions of wax were slightly flattened between parallel faces before measurement, without, however, being squeezed outward at all, the same pressure being applied in all cases. The readings were taken be- tween the faces, and are as under : Drone wall, 4 thousandths of an inch; drone base, 5i to 5^ thousandths; worker wall, 3^ thousandths; worker base, 4 thousandths. Of course, natural comb may vary, and some difference may be due to method of measurement. I do not, however, remem- ber that these differences have been pre- viously noted. Pro Bono Publico (p. 182).— (26) "Bars were used centuries ago in ; Why, of course they were, wisely and well, let us hope. There, no doubt, the Ro
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