. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. THE BRITISH BEE JOURNAL. [Feb. 19, 1914. candy. The winter has not been normal, having been too mild, and mild winters mean lost stocks.âD. Wilson. EARLY FORAGERS. [8954] As I have not seen any report in the "; of the bees making a start, I thought you would like to know that mine were busy carrying pollen on February 4th and 5th; both days were sunny, and the temperature on the 5th was 61deg. in the sun. It was very interesting indeed to watch them carrying in the first pollen, but it would be more interesting to kn
. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. THE BRITISH BEE JOURNAL. [Feb. 19, 1914. candy. The winter has not been normal, having been too mild, and mild winters mean lost stocks.âD. Wilson. EARLY FORAGERS. [8954] As I have not seen any report in the "; of the bees making a start, I thought you would like to know that mine were busy carrying pollen on February 4th and 5th; both days were sunny, and the temperature on the 5th was 61deg. in the sun. It was very interesting indeed to watch them carrying in the first pollen, but it would be more interesting to know where they got it from. The aconite should be flowering before this, but I doubt whether many are grown about here, and the crocus shows no sign of flowering yet; at least, mine do not. and they were planted in October and have been through the ground for weeks. These bees were carrying pollen on Novem- ber 5th, and drones living from one hive (see ", Nov. 13, 1913, page 456), so they have had a very short winter, but, alas ! it is now windy, cold, and raining, and no bees are to be seen.âW. P. L., Baklock, Apiary Accounts (p. 37).âAs Mr. Small- wood takes his seat so squarely upon the stool of repentance, he may consider him- self fully forgiven for his metaphorical references to the Dons Quixote who ride full tilt into mares' nests. It would, however, be well to restate the accounts accurately for the benefit of those bee-keepers who desire a model. But there is one aspect of such accounts to which I should like to draw attention, and this is the regarding of a credit balance as profit. Profit it may be, but gross profit. The true view of it is expressed by Mr. Carver (p. 48), where he states it as a return for work done. This is as it should be, since labour is a first charge upon such profit, and, to my mind, any question of the occupation being profitable should consider the time employed in the occupation. A practical consideration of this might e
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