. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. 224 THE BRITISH BEE JOURNAL. [June 4, 1<J14. To-day (May 2) being rather finer than the past few days, I have made arrange- ments for commencing queen-rearing by splitting one of my strongest stocks and taking a few frames and the queen to an out-apiary. The dequeened portion will be tried with larva? in cups. Drones are now in the hives, so the time is quite opportune. From time to time the question crops up as to the suitability of heather honey as a winter food for bees. I have before expressed my opinion that it is a good winter foo
. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. 224 THE BRITISH BEE JOURNAL. [June 4, 1<J14. To-day (May 2) being rather finer than the past few days, I have made arrange- ments for commencing queen-rearing by splitting one of my strongest stocks and taking a few frames and the queen to an out-apiary. The dequeened portion will be tried with larva? in cups. Drones are now in the hives, so the time is quite opportune. From time to time the question crops up as to the suitability of heather honey as a winter food for bees. I have before expressed my opinion that it is a good winter food. This season I have taken special notice, and I am able definitely to state that the stocks which went to the heather last August have wintered HOME-MADE OBSERVATOEY HIVE. with less consumption of stores, and have come through stronger in bees than those kept at home and fed up on syrup. As a consequence, they are now ready either for supering or dividing, whilst the others are having to receive special attention to get them ready for the clover-flow. Perhaps if other bee-keepers would give their experience of heather stores during the past season we should go a long way towards settling the vexed question once and for all. I should like (if the Editor will allow) to add a note of personal thanks for the instructions given in recent numbers of ''' for making an observatory hive. Although I do not claim quite to come under the head of 'Novices,' I found the article most helpful, and was waiting each time for the next contribution. I am not a "Croesus," and so have never been able to afford an observatory hive before, having always had something else to do with my money. But now, with the Editor's help, the expenditure of a few shillings, a little labour, and a little in- genuity, I am set up for a time. My hive is only made of deal, enamelled white, but next winter I intend to make another in mahogany.—D. Wilson. BLURTS FROM A SCRATCHY PEN. SUNDAY AT
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