. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. Aug. 22, 1895.] TIIE BRITISH BEE JOURNAL. 331 interest in all industries, and hopes, by example, to persuade the peasant population to take up new and left-off industries.—British Weekly. METEOROLOGICAL SUMMARY. July, 1895. Locality, Stoke Prior, Worcestershire. Height above sea-level, 225 ft. Rainfall, 2'65 in. In July, 1894, 257 in. rain fell. Greatest fall in 24 hours, 0'58 in. on the 18th. Rain fell on 14 days. In July, 1894, 12 days. Max. shade temp., 76° on the 8th ; max. for July, 1894, 81°. Min. temp., 38° on the 12th and 29th ; mi
. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. Aug. 22, 1895.] TIIE BRITISH BEE JOURNAL. 331 interest in all industries, and hopes, by example, to persuade the peasant population to take up new and left-off industries.—British Weekly. METEOROLOGICAL SUMMARY. July, 1895. Locality, Stoke Prior, Worcestershire. Height above sea-level, 225 ft. Rainfall, 2'65 in. In July, 1894, 257 in. rain fell. Greatest fall in 24 hours, 0'58 in. on the 18th. Rain fell on 14 days. In July, 1894, 12 days. Max. shade temp., 76° on the 8th ; max. for July, 1894, 81°. Min. temp., 38° on the 12th and 29th ; min. temp, for July, 1894,40°. Max. shade temp, at !) , 67° on the 7th. Min. temp, at 9 , 55° on 3rd and 4th. Frosty nights, nil. During July, 1894, nil. Max. barometer, 30"075 on 5th and 6th. Min. barometer, 29"3 on 2nd, 20th, and 21st. A cold and wet month. What a contrast to June ! Very little nectar secreted. Sections being emptied in some hives. Aftermath far better than anticipated, but owing to the low temperature not much visited. Yield of honey in the immediate neighbourhood far below the average.—Percy Leigh, Beemount. NOVELTIES FOR 1895. Mr. W. P. Meadows forwards particulars of some seasonable novelties for present use. The first of these is his latest improvement in super-clearers, which—as will be seen in the cut—consists of a slide of tin, inserted in the. meadows' improved super-clearer. outer edge of clearer, by means of which a circular hole in floor of the latter is covered or opened at will from the outside. This arrange- ment enables the bee-keeper to set his clearer on in the usual way, and when the surplus chamber is removed after beiDg cleared of bees the combs can be returned tor " clearing up" after extracting, the bees re-admitted by withdrawing the slide, when combs are cleared, and again shut off from below by pushing in the slide, the bees passing into the brood nest by the bee-escape. Thus the bees pass in a
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