. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. 266 THE BRITISH BEE JOURNAL. Aug. 23,1917. is buy " The British Bee-Keepers' Guide Book," ~y T. W. Cowan, read it intelli- gently, and the "scientific processes" will be reduced to simplicity itself. This advice could well be extended to many " keepers-of-bees,'' who are a curse, rather than a blessing, to the craft. E. J. L. NOTES FBOM GBETNA GREEN. [9502] When last I wrote the British Bee Journal my bees were located among the heather hills of Ross-shire; now they forage over the green fields of far-famed Gretna—
. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. 266 THE BRITISH BEE JOURNAL. Aug. 23,1917. is buy " The British Bee-Keepers' Guide Book," ~y T. W. Cowan, read it intelli- gently, and the "scientific processes" will be reduced to simplicity itself. This advice could well be extended to many " keepers-of-bees,'' who are a curse, rather than a blessing, to the craft. E. J. L. NOTES FBOM GBETNA GREEN. [9502] When last I wrote the British Bee Journal my bees were located among the heather hills of Ross-shire; now they forage over the green fields of far-famed Gretna—the scene of many a romantic story. The present-day Gretna, however, is sternly practical, and in the calm of the evening the beehives' hum is drowned by the deeper hum of the big dynamos that supply electricity to the surrounding munition factories. But I digress. The 300-mile journey from Ross-shire to the Solway shore proved disastrous to the bees. From various causes they dwindled down until a dozen stocks were reduced by vAiis sprang to a single colony of Italians. The present season, however, has been so favourable that I now find myself the owner of five colonies, and a large surplus of comb honey as well. I have already removed three full supers, leaving other five, partly sealed, still on. Just now, the pleasant scent of heather honey is in the air, and the strenuous little workers start out each morning at for a long day's work, " owre the muir among the ; This evening they worked on until after eight. The nearest heather hills to us are in Cumberland, and beyond the reach of our bees, so their energies are confined to the Solway Moss moors. When time permits, I hope co g'vt full details of the season's working.—J. M Ellis, Gretna. PRESS CUTTINGS. districts which have become devastated. An apiary of over one hundred colonies will in due course be established at Holmes Farm for this purpose. To a number of visitors from Kirkcudbright on Satur
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