. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. THE. 0mm [No. 23. Vol. II.] MARCH, 1875. [Published Monthly.] dEbrtcrnal, ^^tices, t^t. MARCH. March is one of the most important months to an apiarian, and should be one of the busiest, as upon „the careful management of the bees during its ' many weathers' depends, in a great measure, the probability of a successful autumn result. It must not be inferred from this that good management at the pi'esent time will ensure full supers during the ensuing summer; because the honey jaeld depends on influences over which man has no control, except
. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. THE. 0mm [No. 23. Vol. II.] MARCH, 1875. [Published Monthly.] dEbrtcrnal, ^^tices, t^t. MARCH. March is one of the most important months to an apiarian, and should be one of the busiest, as upon „the careful management of the bees during its ' many weathers' depends, in a great measure, the probability of a successful autumn result. It must not be inferred from this that good management at the pi'esent time will ensure full supers during the ensuing summer; because the honey jaeld depends on influences over which man has no control, except in so far as the scattering of seeds and the f)lanting of flowering shrubs and trees may tend in that direction. Before a harvest can be reaped there must be a seed-time ; and the spade, the plough, and the harrow, must be freely used in their season, or the result will not be satis- factory ; and in apiculture, if a goml harvest is to be expected, there must be a season of pre- paration ; and that season, we emphatically say, is the present. The one great essential to profitable bee-keeping is the having large populations in all the hives when the honey season arrives, so that there may be plent}' of labourers to collect and store it. If a landed proprietor knew that at certain seasons his domains would be visited by innumerable flocks of wild fowl or game; would he wait until they arrived before making prcjiarations for their capture ? Does the fisher wait until the shoals of fish are seen, ere he makes preparation for taking them ? Most emphatically. No ! Yet there are thousands of bee-keepers iu this country who never dream of preparing for the honey season until it has arrived; and while they are then making ready, the opportunity j)asses away, and is lost. Many people who keep bees for profit talk and write much that is ridiculous on the subject of ' letting bees alone :' they argue that ' bees, in a state of nature, never require to be interfered with—never want man
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