. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. BEE-KEEPERS' RECORD AND ADVISER. .â¢No. 589. Vol. XXI. N. S. 197.] OCTOBER 5,1893. [Published Weekly, (Efotiorial, Satires, t£c. USEFUL HINTS. Weather.âA little over a week ago we had no " hints" to write, or probably those who care to peruse this column would have been told that snow was lying two feet deep in some parts of Scotland, and that winter was travelling south very fast. As it is, we find ourselves in these parts still in the midst of phenomenal warmth and sunshine. The Harvest.âThe honey season being now quite over,
. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. BEE-KEEPERS' RECORD AND ADVISER. .â¢No. 589. Vol. XXI. N. S. 197.] OCTOBER 5,1893. [Published Weekly, (Efotiorial, Satires, t£c. USEFUL HINTS. Weather.âA little over a week ago we had no " hints" to write, or probably those who care to peruse this column would have been told that snow was lying two feet deep in some parts of Scotland, and that winter was travelling south very fast. As it is, we find ourselves in these parts still in the midst of phenomenal warmth and sunshine. The Harvest.âThe honey season being now quite over, bee-keepers are totting up results. And what, harvests of honey some of our northern friends have secured to be sure ! We have beeu looking over the "reports " in our monthly, and it is quite refreshing to learn how well bees have done in Scotland and some parts of the North of England. Among many big " takes " recorded, we think that of Mr. A. Muir, as reported on p. 136 of Record now bids fair to stand at the top. Here it U :â "I had nineteen hives,s^ring-count, aud finished the season with twenty , Had only four hives that swarmed. I wrou^ .c twelve hives for ex- tracted honey, six for one-pound sections, and one for seven-pound supers. I find, on counting up, I have got nineteen hundredweight of honey, besides twenty frames of honey given to driven bees. My two best extracting hives gave me 150 pounds each ! the best ' take' being from 13th to 19th Juneâsix daysâwhen the bee* drew out five shallow frames and" gave me thirty-nine and "a half pounds from each. My best hive, worked for sections, gave me five crates of twenty-one pounds eae*, or 105 sections in all. The hive with supet â gave me 100 pounds in supers, and twenty-u ree pounds of heather honey from shallow ; The " Wells " System.âNo Moubt the comparative fewness of the reports to hand concerning the success or failure of this system in the hands o
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