. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. June 25, 1914.] THE BRITISH BEE JOURNAL. 255 last. My suggestion is that unaffected stocks must at all hazards be protected from the crawlers, and is it not a fair inference that the reason why whole apiaries are exterminated is largely be- cause the hives are placed so close to- gether?—H. R. Yeo, Rougham Rectory. SOMETHING LIKE A SWARM. [9042] On Friday, 19th June, I was called to hive a swarm of bees at the residence of one of our members, H. Riley, Esq., West Lodge, Kew. I saw at once it was a monster, hanging so that I could reach it
. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. June 25, 1914.] THE BRITISH BEE JOURNAL. 255 last. My suggestion is that unaffected stocks must at all hazards be protected from the crawlers, and is it not a fair inference that the reason why whole apiaries are exterminated is largely be- cause the hives are placed so close to- gether?—H. R. Yeo, Rougham Rectory. SOMETHING LIKE A SWARM. [9042] On Friday, 19th June, I was called to hive a swarm of bees at the residence of one of our members, H. Riley, Esq., West Lodge, Kew. I saw at once it was a monster, hanging so that I could reach it from the ground. I am not possessed of much muscular strength, and one shake brought so many bees in the skep that I was unable to hold it with one hand. I quickly got the other hand to it, and put it on the ground. I seized a box, about a foot square, lying close by, and shook that also full of bees, and threw them down at the propped-up skep entrance; also a second box full, before I had cleared the branch. I watered the swarm before hiving, and after it was in the skep; also cooled the outside with water, and left it well in the shade under the trees whilst I went home to fit up frames, &c, ready to hive the bees on later. I had only been at home a quarter of an hour when a message arrived, " The bees are off ; I got them in a second time. When finally tied up in skep it weighed lolbs. 8ozs. The skep, cheese cloth, and string, without bees, weighed 61bs. 6ozs., leaving a total weight of 91bs. 2 ozs. of bees. Beg pardon, what did you say? Double swarm? "No such thing, marm," as the dustman told the lady when accused of stealing. There is only one stock in the walled-in kitchen garden; the swarm settled but a few feet away from the stock, tlie gardeners saw it issue from this only hive, and "rung it ; The weighing was done in the presence of Mr. and Mrs. Riley, also the gardeners, one of the maids, and your humble servant. "
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