Part 4

We are pleased with Mr Holterman’s suggestions, and, if possible, will make some tests, as this matter is of more vital importance to beekeepers than they are aware. We shall refer to this again in the near future.

Mr. Holterman has touched the right key; we must have more careful experimenting with a view to solving some of the mysteries that now surround apiculture, and we trust that others of our readers and beekeeping friends will offer like suggestions and also assist us in making the tests. It will pay you well to do so, and we can by this means help each other very much.--ED.]

FOOTNOTES:

[1] Read at the Beekeepers’ Congress, at New Orleans.

[2] If our friend will visit us we will show him colonies of Italians that can be examined without fear of stings, and this with neither smoke nor protection.--ED.

[3] When working for comb honey, I return all of my swarms so that I get no increase that season.--D. F. L.

[4] Doubtless our readers would be pleased to hear from friend Lashier again, and we trust that he will favor us with the article.--ED.

[5] Nature has wisely ordered it that generally only one-third of the bees in a colony fly out to the fields, so that the colony would not perish even if all the absent bees were lost through some mishap.

[6] Literally magazine or wave house hive.--R. F. H.

[7] We are unable to decide to what extent the “Chaff Hive” was liable for the loss of our friend’s bees, as quite frequently the lack of a thorough knowledge of beekeeping will result in loss of queens or bees which is attributed to the hive or dealer.

Our friend certainly has a right to speak and the columns of the “Apiculturist” are always open to those who wish to express opinions, so long as they do so in a fair, manly way.--ED.

[8] By mistake this communication, which should have appeared in our last, was overlooked and as it contains valuable items we give it in this number.--ED.

[9] This paper was read at a meeting of the New York Microscopical Society, March 6, 1885.

[10] The ocelli are simple eyes or lenses, set between the compound eyes, as additional organs of vision. These organs are possessed by all insects which have compound eyes.--ED.

[Transcriber’s Note:

Obvious printer errors corrected silently.

Inconsistent spelling and hyphenation are as in the original.]