. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. Aug. 28, 1919. THE BRITISH BEE JOURNAL. 369. Seasonable Hints. It will be well now to remove all supers, if possible, except in heather districts. The bees will do with what honey is stored now for winter use. Great care should be taken that no inducement to rob is given. Where feeding is in progress, the syrup should be given in the evening. En- trances should be reduced in proportion to the strength of the colony. Ke-queening, Avhere necessary, had better be done as soon as possible, in order to give the new queen a chance to settle down
. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. Aug. 28, 1919. THE BRITISH BEE JOURNAL. 369. Seasonable Hints. It will be well now to remove all supers, if possible, except in heather districts. The bees will do with what honey is stored now for winter use. Great care should be taken that no inducement to rob is given. Where feeding is in progress, the syrup should be given in the evening. En- trances should be reduced in proportion to the strength of the colony. Ke-queening, Avhere necessary, had better be done as soon as possible, in order to give the new queen a chance to settle down before winter. Those who intend to rear their own queens may now go through the notes made during the season, and decide from the records which are the best stocks from which to rear both queens and drones next season. The queens of those stocks should not, of couri-je, be replaced. A queen must be run full season to prove her worth, and by the time that is done it will be too late for queen-rearing. Some bee-keepers also hold that it is better to breed from a mature queen than from a young one, and that the best stock will result from breed- ing from la queen in her third year than when younger. In anj- case, do not forget that it is just as important to use one of the best queens for raising drones as it is for the queens, so that it is necessary to select two colonies for breeding purposes. It will be much better for British bee- keeping when more attention is paid to breeding from our own best strains, rather than the wholesale importation of foreign races. A Dorset Yarn. Away on holiday from the farm, I was able to see the farming lands between Farehiam and Southampton. The doctors had ordered me to go slow, go where it is quiet; but in the lanes and fields one was never away from bees. Where the fields were very large, with scarce any , yet on all the blackberries there vfere many bees. Mostly all were Italians, but one village had either Dutch or English bl
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