. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. BEE-KEEPERS' RECORD AND ADVISER. No. 454. Vol. XIX. ] MARCH 5, 1891. [Published Weekly. (^tutorial, Uoiras, $r. USEFUL HINTS. Weather.—Warm days, alternated with fog and frost at nights, to be again suc- ceeded by warmth, this time accompanied by a foretaste of ' the ides of March,' in the shape of a biting bit of east wind—is our weather report for the last two weeks. Bees have been abroad a good deal on the several warm days, and pollen seems to be fairly plentiful in many places. There are few bee-keepers who cannot now count up
. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. BEE-KEEPERS' RECORD AND ADVISER. No. 454. Vol. XIX. ] MARCH 5, 1891. [Published Weekly. (^tutorial, Uoiras, $r. USEFUL HINTS. Weather.—Warm days, alternated with fog and frost at nights, to be again suc- ceeded by warmth, this time accompanied by a foretaste of ' the ides of March,' in the shape of a biting bit of east wind—is our weather report for the last two weeks. Bees have been abroad a good deal on the several warm days, and pollen seems to be fairly plentiful in many places. There are few bee-keepers who cannot now count up the number of stocks on which their work for the coming season must depend, seeing that all the doubling or uniting likely to be needed may now be fairly calculated and queeniessness will have been generally dis- covered, so that queenless lots of bees will not be counted on save for helping weak stocks. The curious personal experiences of the weather which fall to the lot of the dweller outside the metropolis are indeed a 'caution,' We leave home—only thirteen miles away from Charing Cross—amidst bright sun- shine, the fresh air of the country, quite June-like in its warmth, birds singing and bees humming the while. The train whisks us off, and forty-five minutes or so later wo find ourselves groping along in more than semi-darkness—dropped down, as it were, from sunny morning into foggy night in a few minutes. How it makes the bee-man long to be where the bees are at such times ! SraixG Work.—We must impress upon our readers the fact that, except in very early districts, there is no hurry yet for beginning work in earnest. It may be well to assist stocks with artificial pollen where the natural article is scarce, but it is usually found that Nature provides in her own way for the bees' requirements; and when stocks are forward by reason of the location, the willows, hazels, and all the early pollen-producing blossoms are forward too, yielding abundance of nitrogen
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