. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. 24 THE BRITISH BEE JOURNAL. [Jan. 20, 1916. each time. In the light of that experi- ence we are looking forward to another trip with better Inck next time.— Lancastrian. REASONS FOR LATE SWARM (page 456, Vol. 43). [9224] Though my letter of August 31st was not intended to raise the ques- tion of why the bees swarmed, but to point out that other reasons than want of room will cause them to do so, I will give you a few more particulars of the hive. I had taken off the top rack of shallow frames about a fortnight previously, since when the hi
. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. 24 THE BRITISH BEE JOURNAL. [Jan. 20, 1916. each time. In the light of that experi- ence we are looking forward to another trip with better Inck next time.— Lancastrian. REASONS FOR LATE SWARM (page 456, Vol. 43). [9224] Though my letter of August 31st was not intended to raise the ques- tion of why the bees swarmed, but to point out that other reasons than want of room will cause them to do so, I will give you a few more particulars of the hive. I had taken off the top rack of shallow frames about a fortnight previously, since when the hive had not been touched, so it was not induced by manipulation. Neither do I think that the queen had been injured at that time either by myself or by the bees, as no smoke was blown into the bodybox, only into and under the top rack when putting on the clearer, and there was a queen excluder under the lower rack which was left on. I did not mean to imply that the hive was weak, but that it was not strong enough to swarm. The queens in the cells I cut out were very vigorous, and as the bees are still in. good condition I do not think that there was any diseased brood in the hive at the time. I had noticed that this hive was retaining its drones after all the others had killed theirs. If they were superseding the queen the question still remains, " What caused them to swarm .P " I had a big stray swarm come in on August 17th, which I hived on shallow frames, but it has since died out—" Isle of Wight" disease I expect, though they did not show so many signs of .it as did two of my stocks last year, which, never- theless, came through the winter all right and gave me a lot of honey this summer. —Arthur F. Hardy. He is not worthy of the honeycomib That shuns the hive because the Ibees have stings.—Shakespeare. Even the beeswax business here interests the Germans of ~ Luneberg.—Evening News. THE BEE. (From the French hy Jno. Smallwood.) Satin winged, no
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