. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. THE. [No. 78. Vol. VII.] OCTOBER, 1879. [Published Monthly.] €bxtaxml, ftottas, #r. OCTOBER. With the present month will end all hope of further honey-harvest, and there will be nothing to do but pack up the poor bees for the winter, and we most earnestly advise immediate attention in that respect. The past month Las been more kindly than was expected, and gave nearly a whole week of fine weather, during which much was done in securing the crops of hay (first crops in September ! !) and corn; but the bees had little opportunity for anythin
. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. THE. [No. 78. Vol. VII.] OCTOBER, 1879. [Published Monthly.] €bxtaxml, ftottas, #r. OCTOBER. With the present month will end all hope of further honey-harvest, and there will be nothing to do but pack up the poor bees for the winter, and we most earnestly advise immediate attention in that respect. The past month Las been more kindly than was expected, and gave nearly a whole week of fine weather, during which much was done in securing the crops of hay (first crops in September ! !) and corn; but the bees had little opportunity for anything save the very natural process of robbing and uniting. There is an old law, universal it would appear, that— ' They shall take that have the power, And they shall keep who can;' and in regard to bees in the natural state, or in the hands of careless bee-keepers, it is a law which provides against their extermination; and it is really providential that their instincts survive their attempted domestication to so great an extent. We say ' attempted,' but we mean, in numerous instances, their pretended ' domestication,' for with many hundreds of bee-keepers their cultivation is but a sham, and they are let alone to follow their own devices ; and but for the brigand instinct which teaches them to ' rifle, rob, and plunder,' and absorb the weaker with the stronger stocks, there would be great danger of their ceasing out of the land. We regret very much that the season has been such a bad one; it troubles us exceedingly, because it has been one of great effort, as may be seen by the newspaper reports of the doings of the British (and other) Bee- keepers' Associations, and it is really grievous that such effort should be nullified in so great a measure by weather contradiction. We, in common with all well-wishers to bees and bee-keepers, continually assert the advan- tages that accrue from the humane system of bee-culture, and urge upon cottagers the de- sirability of their cultiv
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