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Title: British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser
Identifier: britishbeejourna1903lond (find matches)
Year: 1873 (1870s)
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Subjects: Bees
Publisher: London
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Dec. 31, 1903.) THE BRITISH BEE JOURNAL. 525 the same thing next season. I also keep colonies and nuclei of these bees.—F. W. L. Slauen, Bipple Court Jpia^, near Dover. A CORNISH BEES' HOME. (5373 ) In my wanderings during my summer holidays in North Cornwall, I hap- pened to come across a beautiful specimen of a natural observatory bee-hive, which may be of interest to your readers I therefore send you a photograph. This self-selected bees' home is an old unused rabbit-hutch, built into a cob (mud and straw) wall about 5 ft. from the ground. The swarm took possession of this early in July by entering through the individual bees in the original photograph are very distinct. — C. V. S., Walton Park, Gkvedon. mm and Jlc^lies. (3299.) Requeening Stoclts in December.— I have to-day found a dead queen on the ground outside one of my Italian stocks, and, as a reader of your journal, would be obliged if you will give me some advice on the following :—1. Is it toD late now to introduce another queen, or should I allow the stock to remain queenless until spring, and then unite the bees to another colony ? 2 If this course
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BEES IN A CORNIStI RABBIT HUTCH. holes when the doors were closed, as shown on the right-hand side of the photograph. This p'cture represents the wonderful result of their labours from that time up to Sep- tember 3 (just two months), when the photo- graph was taken. The partition which is seen goes through to the back, the left-hand portion is evidently the brood-chamber, and the right-hand a surplus-chamber. All the combs are remarkably regular, since they are entirely the bees' own handiwork. I estimate that there are 30 sq. ft. of comb, and abiut 30 lb. of honey. If they survive the winter, which is doubtful, a very large quantity of honey should be obtained another season. The is not advisable, what do you recommend me to do ? It should be explained that I moved the hive a foot or two away from its original stand on Saturday, the 19th, but no commo- tion seemed to be caused in hive through removal, or I should have opened and examined it. 3. Do you think the queen was "balled as a consequence of reruoving, as I cannot otherwise understand how she was killed ?—A. H. Bartlett, Crowthorne, Berks, December 23. Reply.—1. Bees that have been queenles? all winter are of little u'e for uniting pur- poses in the following spring. We should I, akej_the first chance of examining the comba

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