. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. 318 THE BRITISH BEE JOURNAL. [Aug. 6, 1914. sentence near the bottom of page 277, " Something may be due to weather or other conditions at the moors," has a great deal to do with differences of opinion on the subject. As a beginner I took three stocks to the moors in 1912. The weather was bad, heavy rains, strong winds, and cold nights, even frost at the end of August. On returning, No. 1 had very little honey in brood chamber, No. 2 almost overdone with it, No. 3 nearly sufficient to carry them through the winter. In the spring
. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. 318 THE BRITISH BEE JOURNAL. [Aug. 6, 1914. sentence near the bottom of page 277, " Something may be due to weather or other conditions at the moors," has a great deal to do with differences of opinion on the subject. As a beginner I took three stocks to the moors in 1912. The weather was bad, heavy rains, strong winds, and cold nights, even frost at the end of August. On returning, No. 1 had very little honey in brood chamber, No. 2 almost overdone with it, No. 3 nearly sufficient to carry them through the winter. In the spring 1913 (January) No. 2 started a rather bad attack of "Isle of Wight " disease, No. 3 had it later on not so bad, and No. 1 hardly at all. Thus the stock with most heather honey suffered most, and the one fed with syrup hardly suffered at all. So possibly, heather stores gathered in a wet season may be bad as a winter food. A friend informed me that pollen from heather, under certain circumstances, is rank poison for bees. Is this so?— Heathek . THE IMMUNITY CHIMERA. [9063] The fact that Mr. Heap chooses to exaggerate and distort my argument shows pretty clearly that he feels his own to be weakened by it. It is surely as easy for a* bee to pick up a beneficent microbe as a hostile one. Mr. Heap is able to imagine the latter because he knows that it has been done: but the former is im- possible for him to imagine. It is not true to say that I " brush aside" the a priori argument. Mr. Heap brushes aside Zander and ends by relying on such a state of affairs as Zander proved. He now doubts whether there is any such thing anywhere as "absolute ; I doubt whether anyone ever suggested that there was; certainly I should not. What I am looking for and what I see coming is a state of affairs in which Nosema apis is (once more) not fatal to an ordinarily healthy bee community. The weaklings will spring dwindle, as they did in the past, others will di
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