. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. Sept. 7, 1916.]. THE BRITISH BEE JOtJRNAL. 281 confines of Macedonia and Thrace, are the seat of the fabled taming of bees by Bac- chus, when he shut them up in the hollow oak. The honey of Attica generally was very fine, and Corinth honey had p. fame of its own. Migratory bee-keeping was car- ried on in Greece, bees being taken from Achaia as far as Attica. They were also transported in boats from one part of the coast of Thessaly to another to catch the flow from different sources. The famous " Grecian " hive was at an early da
. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. Sept. 7, 1916.]. THE BRITISH BEE JOtJRNAL. 281 confines of Macedonia and Thrace, are the seat of the fabled taming of bees by Bac- chus, when he shut them up in the hollow oak. The honey of Attica generally was very fine, and Corinth honey had p. fame of its own. Migratory bee-keeping was car- ried on in Greece, bees being taken from Achaia as far as Attica. They were also transported in boats from one part of the coast of Thessaly to another to catch the flow from different sources. The famous " Grecian " hive was at an early date in apiculture so arranged that surplus honey could be obtained without killing the bees, and we glean many hints to convince us that bee-keeping was then in a forward condition. The bee, too, was studied and highly appreciated for its own inherent virtues, as well as for the delicious sweet it conferred on mankind freely and at little cost. M. ECHOES FROM THE HIVES. What sort of a season? A most peculiar one indeed. January was almost summer- like. Winter quarters vacated meant scant stores, and yoimg liecs and an abnoi'nially high death rate in March and April, many bee-keepers in the Mid-Cornwall district suffering losses ranging as high as 80 per cent. Wasps, as well as bees, became very scarce. My own winter losses were less than 14 per cent., but in the last week in June all were on the verge of starvation owing to a very wet and cold mid-simimer month. July came most beautifully fine, and with hives teeming with bees, and the coimtry white with clover, anxiety ended, hope was rewarded, and a record made, two hives actually building comb outside after hive lifting.—J. M. Best, Trewoon Apiary, St. Austell, Cornwall. "It is an ill wind that blows nobody any ; This is an old saying which is coming true this year; I mean as regards the bees. The five months drought which we have experienced here in Jersey has resulted in an exceedingly good honey fiow, and
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