. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. 20 THE BRITISH BEE JOURNAL. [June 1, 1876. the earliest consistent period, and steps at once taken to ameliorate its condition by uniting it with a stock having a queen.* It has occurred to us that the bees of queenless stocks at this time of year will be best utilised by adding them to hives from which artificial swarms have been driven. As we have elsewhere shown, the bees are of little use as nurses, so the building up of stocks by giving brood- combs to them must be profitless as well as tedious; but by the principle now advocated arti
. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. 20 THE BRITISH BEE JOURNAL. [June 1, 1876. the earliest consistent period, and steps at once taken to ameliorate its condition by uniting it with a stock having a queen.* It has occurred to us that the bees of queenless stocks at this time of year will be best utilised by adding them to hives from which artificial swarms have been driven. As we have elsewhere shown, the bees are of little use as nurses, so the building up of stocks by giving brood- combs to them must be profitless as well as tedious; but by the principle now advocated artificial swarms may be made much stronger than ordinarily, and at once furnished with the combs of the queenless bees, while the latter can be utilised and reinvigorated by being placed in the combs of the stock from which the artificial swarm has been driven. The plan then is simply to await until drones appear, and then make the respective occupants of a queenless and a full stock change their tenancies. Each set of bees must be kept on its own stand, and the hive of each given to the other, the artificial swarm will then quickly fill the broodless combs of the queenless bees, while the latter will act as heat-producers in the others' brood-combs, and prevent the pos- sibility of loss through sparsencss of bees, a casualty too common when driven stocks have been removed from their original stands. The young bees, which will hatch by hundreds daily from the combs of the driven bees, will speedily raise queen-cells therein, or, if possible, a queen or queen-cell may be given to them, but in either case we think the bees of the queenless stock will have been put to the best possible use. THE MYSTERIES OF THE BEE-HIVE. {Continual from p. 4.) Having traced the bees to their hive, and shown how their cells are formed, we cannot but pause to admire the wondrous beauty of their arrangement, and the perfection of skill exhibited in their construction. Various theories have been started
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