. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. Jan. 9, 1919. THE BRITISH BEE JOURNAL. 11. The Editors do not hold themselves responsible for the opinions expressed by correspondents. No notice will be taken of anonymous communications, and c&rrespondents are requested to write on one side of the paper only and give their real names and addresses, not necessarily for publication, but as a guarantee of good faith. Illustrations should be drawn on separate pieces of paper. We do not undertake to return rejected communications. Dutch Bees. [9828] When " An Oxfordshire Par- son &qu
. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. Jan. 9, 1919. THE BRITISH BEE JOURNAL. 11. The Editors do not hold themselves responsible for the opinions expressed by correspondents. No notice will be taken of anonymous communications, and c&rrespondents are requested to write on one side of the paper only and give their real names and addresses, not necessarily for publication, but as a guarantee of good faith. Illustrations should be drawn on separate pieces of paper. We do not undertake to return rejected communications. Dutch Bees. [9828] When " An Oxfordshire Par- son " (9825) has kept hees a little longer he may change ihis mind. I agree that Dutch are excellent for increase, and he certainly has a wonderful strain of them —if, indeed, they are pure Dutch. What colour are they, I wonder? With regard to legislation. I have tried to get a few signatures to»the forms you sent me, but though the more advanced hee men will sign many people seem to have had enough of Government officials these last years.—R. B. Mani^ey. A Letter from a Soldier in France. [9829] Yoii will be interested to learn that I am kept pretty well booked up with lectures at various huts, and I think that next year will see a boom in the craft— that is, if the questions I get asked cotint for anything. I had a unique experience on Thursday night, being asked to lecture at the Hut in the Chinese labour camp, through an interpreter. Of course I went, and chose for my subject " How We Keep Bees in ; Using slides from your set and some from a set the have got hold of, I left out all the anatomical slides, and I must say I have never had a more keenly interested audience than the " Chinks " were that night. The hut was packed with three or four hundred of them, and we had to take extraordinary precautions to keep them from crowding. The sheet we hung in front of the stage, wet, with the lantern behind, and a barrier in front
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