. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. Fig. 4.—End of left tibia of Apis meUifera, worker, end view showing excipula and limen ; r, comb. Ap/S, L&ft Leg. AMONG THE BEES. FORETHOUGHT. J5// T). .1/. M'drdonald, Banff. Last year was a very bountiful one. This year, on the contrary, was very poor, as far as surplus honey was concerned. Honey being plentiful in 1911, the crop sold out slowly at a poor figure, while this year it was disposed of before being taken off the hive. Hei'e is a subject deserving careful thought from all prescient bee- keepers. Extracted honey can be eas
. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. Fig. 4.—End of left tibia of Apis meUifera, worker, end view showing excipula and limen ; r, comb. Ap/S, L&ft Leg. AMONG THE BEES. FORETHOUGHT. J5// T). .1/. M'drdonald, Banff. Last year was a very bountiful one. This year, on the contrary, was very poor, as far as surplus honey was concerned. Honey being plentiful in 1911, the crop sold out slowly at a poor figure, while this year it was disposed of before being taken off the hive. Hei'e is a subject deserving careful thought from all prescient bee- keepers. Extracted honey can be easily preserved for a or two, but it is generally understood that comb honey deteriorates before early spring arrives. Not necei-sarily! Several bee-keepers last year unable to procure customers for all their sections preserved them carefully throup-h the past winter and sold them at a good figure during June of this year; indeed, if they had known the crop was to prove so much of a semi-failure as it did, they could easily have disposed of them at an enhanced price. Candied sections are unsaleable, but these were carefully stored away in a cuplioard in a " garret," close to the roof ceiling, and came out in eairly summer as fresh as when they were packed away. In testing them I was unable to detect any granules, and the flavour was particularly good, almost as plea-ant as when taken off the hive. I reasoned it out that by a little forethought many bee- keepers in a year of a glut could thus pre- serve even section honcv to profit by the enhanced price. The only danger 1 can see is that the following season miglit bo a bountiful one, too, and that, therefoie, the "preserved" honey might prove a drug on the market. yomenclature.—I find there is often a very large amount of careless and inap- propriate application of technical terms from even educated men in speaking about liees and bee-keeping. Thus a su-'inn is frequently called a h'tve, while there
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