BEEKEEPING.
(To MR EDITOR or THE Sereraron.-]
Ste,—With respect to the Isle of Wight disease, my experice:ca may be interesting to some of your readers. I started in 1915 with one hive in the spring, and in the autumn lost all the bees from this scourge. I did not feel like making another start, but a neighbour took a swarm in 1916, and for want of any other place ran this swarm into the hive which I had left standing. I had no hope of their doing any good owing to the state of the hive, which had not been cleaned or disinfected in any way. However, the swarm has prospered. Last year the hive yielded eighteen pound sections of honey, and this year, in spite of the hive having thrown off two swarms, it has yielded eighteen pounds of section honey and thirty pounds of run honey. Can it be that this strain of bees is immune ? Should any of your readers feel interested, I can give further facts which tend to confirm this.—
I am, Sir, Ae., H. VINER. Brookside, Hale Barns, .4 ifrincham.
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