. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. 400 THE BRITISH BEE JOURNAL. Dec. 5, 1918. keep up a living temperature, no mat- ter how their numbers might be diminished, by clustering higher and higher in the peak of the cone? This " hive," I may add, had no bottom board. Beneath the combs was an air- space 2 ft. in diameter running down 60 ft. to the bottom of the column. There may be bee-keepers sufficiently interested to carry out experiments to prove, or disprove, the theory that a conical is better than a rectangular win- tering chamber. To such I leave the sug- gestion
. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. 400 THE BRITISH BEE JOURNAL. Dec. 5, 1918. keep up a living temperature, no mat- ter how their numbers might be diminished, by clustering higher and higher in the peak of the cone? This " hive," I may add, had no bottom board. Beneath the combs was an air- space 2 ft. in diameter running down 60 ft. to the bottom of the column. There may be bee-keepers sufficiently interested to carry out experiments to prove, or disprove, the theory that a conical is better than a rectangular win- tering chamber. To such I leave the sug- gestion. A rough box, square at the bottom and tapering to a point, would be simpler to construct than a perfect cone, and should serve almost as well, provided the joints are well sealed. Its adaption to the uses of a bar-frame hive for wintering would also be easy.âG. B. L{.)H14] My interest in bee-keeping leads me to reply to Mr. E. J Thompson's (9797) statement li that the ' Isle of Wight ' disease always breaks out in the bar-frame hiveâat least nine cases out of ; That is not my experience. Last year, 1917, " Isle of Wight " disease visited me a third timeâI had been en- tirely cleared out twice beforeâthe victim was a skep. The other hives were exempt. This last season numerous swarms came off, and I had no frame-hive for the Last one, so, perforce, it was left in the hiving skep. Some weeks back it developed " Isle of Wight " disease. I determined to try and cure it, if possible. I sprayed liber- ally with Flavine, as far as if could be done. All to no purpose. They got worse rather than better. A few days ago I destroyed them. Now for the other side of the questionâ the frame-hive. Swarms came off fast sea- son, and T ran short of clean combs and foundation. I bad, however, a lot of combs on which bees had died of " Isle of Wight " disease, with which I determined to experiment. So I fitted up two hives with them after well spraying
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