. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. May 1, 1880.] THE BRITISH BEE JOURNAL. wooden arrangement is needed. We use a piece of board A with two strips EE nailed along the back of it projecting both ways. The frame is laid against the wood as shown in woodcut, the foundation I) laid in its place, and molten wax run along the junction of frame-bar and foundation. If the latter is more than an inch wide, wax is afterwards poured along its other side, and, provided the frame-bar be quite dry, and the wax quite hot, it will not be likely to give way or flake off. The best apparatus f
. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. May 1, 1880.] THE BRITISH BEE JOURNAL. wooden arrangement is needed. We use a piece of board A with two strips EE nailed along the back of it projecting both ways. The frame is laid against the wood as shown in woodcut, the foundation I) laid in its place, and molten wax run along the junction of frame-bar and foundation. If the latter is more than an inch wide, wax is afterwards poured along its other side, and, provided the frame-bar be quite dry, and the wax quite hot, it will not be likely to give way or flake off. The best apparatus for applying the boiling wax in this case is Abbott's smelter—a spouted boiler on the glue-pot prin-. ^ ^ ciple, in which the wax is kept at boiling heat until it is poured out at the fine spout. The inner vessel is for wax, the outer for water ; and the whole being of copper will last a life- time, if not allowed to burn itself out through getting dry. Swarming and Hiving. — The glorious weather of spring which has given surviving bees so good a start after the long bad winter, will insure early swarming; and probably ere this reaches our readers, the first natural swarm will have issued, and its advent have been duly chronicled; but there will be many to come in this merry month, and we hope they will be well cared for. When a natural swarm issues they will have with them in their stomachs (honey-sacs) sufficient honey to enable them to live for two or three days, and for the first day or two will require no feeding; but after that time they should be fed on every day during which they have not been able to gather freely from natural sources. The first requirement of a swarm is worker-comb, in which the queen may deposit eggs to be developed into young worker bees ; and so long as the honey-supply is mode- rate they will build worker-comb only: but if large quantities of honey are at hand, or if syrup be supplied to them too abundantly they will build drone-comb to store i
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