. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. THE. [No. 62. Vol. VI.] JUNE, 1878. [Published (fyxttttml, itoixas, fc. JUNE. May has at length dragged itself to a close, after vindicating to the full the value of the warning which we gave on page 4 of the Journal for that month. We then said that 'a fort- night's wretched weather' might be expected about the middle of it; and, almost to the minute, it set in on the 15th, and continued more or less boisterous, wet and cold during nearly the whole of its remainder, only occa- sionally varied by thunderstorms, short gleams of su
. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. THE. [No. 62. Vol. VI.] JUNE, 1878. [Published (fyxttttml, itoixas, fc. JUNE. May has at length dragged itself to a close, after vindicating to the full the value of the warning which we gave on page 4 of the Journal for that month. We then said that 'a fort- night's wretched weather' might be expected about the middle of it; and, almost to the minute, it set in on the 15th, and continued more or less boisterous, wet and cold during nearly the whole of its remainder, only occa- sionally varied by thunderstorms, short gleams of sunshine, and early morning frosts. In such weather the early fruit-blossoms having de- parted bees have found great difficulty in ob- taining sufficient provision for their offspring, and in many places white brood was thrown out of the hives, to the dismay of those who will not believe that the incoming of honey is the touchstone by which the bees gauge their ability to increase and multiply with safety to their community. Dead queens on alighting boardshaveastonished severalownersof bees, and alarmed them for the safety of their colonies ; but, in our opinion, such instances are but the result of delayed swarming, whieh has permitted young queens to mature, and either themselves escape or drive their mothers from their hives, to fall victims at the doors of those at which they sought refuge. Happily, the time has not been one of drought and blighting east wind ; but, on the contrary, the rains and general mildness of the temperature have filled the earth with verdure and floral beauty ; and if the pluvial god would but stay his hand and allow the much-desired solar brightness to shed its benign influence on the landscape, how glad would be the hearts of all bee-keepers, for, under such preceding influences, the earth would burst with blossoms and make our happy land to flow indeed with milk and honey. Already the grass crops in our neighbourhood are fit for the scythe, bending
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