. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. April 1, 1880.] THE BRITISH BEE JOURNAL. 245. may make it worth while for you to read another note from me.—J. F. R. [It may be helpful to many of our readers if we make it clearly understood that unfertilised eggs in worker cells, whether deposited by a queen or a fertile worker, always de- velope into drones, to give room for which the bees elongate the cells in which they are deposited, and when sealed they stand high above the surrounding worker cells, as shown in the wood-cut. Drones bred in worker-cells are considered useless for fer
. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. April 1, 1880.] THE BRITISH BEE JOURNAL. 245. may make it worth while for you to read another note from me.—J. F. R. [It may be helpful to many of our readers if we make it clearly understood that unfertilised eggs in worker cells, whether deposited by a queen or a fertile worker, always de- velope into drones, to give room for which the bees elongate the cells in which they are deposited, and when sealed they stand high above the surrounding worker cells, as shown in the wood-cut. Drones bred in worker-cells are considered useless for fertilising purposes.—Ed.] COTTAGERS' BEES. In your editorial notices in the March Journal you say the cry from all quarters is, ' That the Cot- tagers' Bees are all dead.' I am sorry to say it is so iu many cases ; but I am thankful to say it is not the case with me, having eight hives in the autumn—five in bar-frame hives, and the others in skeps, am glad to say, through successful feeding they are all alive, healthy, and strong, having given them over a hundredweight of sugar-syrup according to your directions in Journal. Hoping it will be a good season this year. Although I did not get any- thing out of them last year, I did not lose by them, having sold swarms to make up for the outlay in feeding.—J. L., Wirksworth, March 8, 1880. BEES IN SCOTLAND. I have, during the past fortnight, delivered pub- lic lectures in five different centres in the North- east 'of Scotland, viz., Marykirk and Banchory in Kincardineshire; Miutlaw and Huntly in Aber- deenshire ; and Arbroath in Forfarshire. Only in places where the influence of Bee Journals and Societies have penetrated do 1 find anything like numbers of promising stocks. Generally, the num- bers have been lamentably reduced by starvation and foul brood, the latter pest being very prevalent in Aberdeenshire. I have seen the famed apiaries that have boasted of occasional grand results under the system of large skeps, but from
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