. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. BEE-KEEPERS' RECORD AND ADVISER. No. 474. Vol. XIX. 82.] JULY 23, 1891. [Published Weekly, (Editorial, Uoticjes, &• USEFUL HINTS. Weather.—After a severe thunderstorm, with a deluge of rain on the 8th and 9th, we have had ten days of fine weather, so fine generally that bee-keepers north and south have but little cause for complaint. Moreover, a good deal of honey has been secured, and the numerous swarms appear to have done uniformly well. It will be quite a common occurrence this year for swarms located in good districts, and hi
. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. BEE-KEEPERS' RECORD AND ADVISER. No. 474. Vol. XIX. 82.] JULY 23, 1891. [Published Weekly, (Editorial, Uoticjes, &• USEFUL HINTS. Weather.—After a severe thunderstorm, with a deluge of rain on the 8th and 9th, we have had ten days of fine weather, so fine generally that bee-keepers north and south have but little cause for complaint. Moreover, a good deal of honey has been secured, and the numerous swarms appear to have done uniformly well. It will be quite a common occurrence this year for swarms located in good districts, and hived from four to six weeks ago, to yield forty or fifty pounds of surplus. Our dread just now is that the warm, dry days, so fre- quent, may tend to promote a too plentiful supply of honey-dew ; but sufficient for the day is the good thereof, and, with white clover abundant, bees arc kept busy on its bloom without having time or inclination to forage about in search of the objection- able stuff just named. It is quite abnormal to look upon white clover in full bloom in the south at date of writing (July 21st), when we were accustomed to sec it nearly over by the same date in our former more northerly location of West Cheshire. The reports reaching us of the prospects of a good year arc uniformly satisfactory, while in some places we hear of ' honey coming in by the hundredweight.' Those who still cling to the Briton's inborn belief that a dry ' St. Swithin ' means a dry fortnight following were in great " form' this year, for the good saint's day was free from rain in most parts. Said one bee-keeper to us, after anxiously noting the sky on the even- ing of the 15th, 'We're all right now for a fine fortnight!' And certainly it was as nearly • all right' as could be wished until the evening of the 19th, when a heavy downpour occurred—clearly proving, of course, that. there must have been rain somewhere on St. Swithin's Day. The tre- mendous downfall which took place
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