. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. THE. [No. 108. Vol. IX.] APRIL, 1882. [Published Monthly.] dBtntcrnal, Hfotkcs, $L APRIL. We think it may safely be recorded that the winter, which may now be considered ' past,' has been the mildest and kindest ever known in this country, for during the whole of it there has scarcely been snow enough to make a snow- ball with, or ice strong enough to bear a duck; and there has been a singular reticence of rain. Up to the 21st of March the whole of that month had been beautifully fine and open, and birds and bees were breeding merrily, whi
. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. THE. [No. 108. Vol. IX.] APRIL, 1882. [Published Monthly.] dBtntcrnal, Hfotkcs, $L APRIL. We think it may safely be recorded that the winter, which may now be considered ' past,' has been the mildest and kindest ever known in this country, for during the whole of it there has scarcely been snow enough to make a snow- ball with, or ice strong enough to bear a duck; and there has been a singular reticence of rain. Up to the 21st of March the whole of that month had been beautifully fine and open, and birds and bees were breeding merrily, while the gardens and orchards assuming spring attire, cheated the bees, and not a few bee-keepers, into the belief that it was May instead of March, and that the time had arrived for swarming, and all the other operations incidental to that month of merrie and happy associations. But on the 21st,—the equinoxial day, which popular belief invests with the power of determining the weather of the three months next ensuing, —there came a change, which narrowed and lengthened the faces of the popular believers, and must have filled their minds with despair. Hereabouts—nine miles west of the metropo- lis—the weather of the 21st was of the most miserable: it rained and blew, and snowed and snew, the livelong day, and at the ' witch- ing hour,' mid-day, when the weather-clerk's determination is supposed to be exhibited, the wind, and the rain, and the snow, and the sleet, had a lively struggle for supremacy, and it was bitterly cold. Since then the weather has been changeable, but generally cold, and the bees very much confined to their hives. Under these circumstances, it will not be surprising if many hives suffer considerably, especially where they have been highly stimulated for being heavily charged with brood, which the bees could easily attend to while the weather was warm and genial, but which under the altered circumstances they may be obliged to neglect, much of it may b
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