. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. Nov. 19, 1914.] THE BRITISH BEE JOURNAL. 409. MR. D. WILSONS LECTURE. {Continued from page 404.) I wish to point out that there is a diver- sity of opinion as to the wintering quality of heather honey. Some heather-going bee-keepers con- demn heather honey totally as a winter food for bees, and make it a rule to take out as much store as possible, supplying syrup store in its place. I myself am an advocate for wintering bees on heather stores, never having found it detrimental to them. Indeed, observation has taught me that in my case, yea
. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. Nov. 19, 1914.] THE BRITISH BEE JOURNAL. 409. MR. D. WILSONS LECTURE. {Continued from page 404.) I wish to point out that there is a diver- sity of opinion as to the wintering quality of heather honey. Some heather-going bee-keepers con- demn heather honey totally as a winter food for bees, and make it a rule to take out as much store as possible, supplying syrup store in its place. I myself am an advocate for wintering bees on heather stores, never having found it detrimental to them. Indeed, observation has taught me that in my case, year in and year out, bees do hetter on heather than on fed stores. I have no desire here to restart a con- troversy which is very old, but merely point out this apparent discrepancy for the benefit of those who may be con- templating heather-going. The subject recpiires more investigation. Certainly, when competent investigators in different districts have arrived at â different conclusions when examining the effects of heather honey as a winter food, we cannot say that one set is right and the other wrong. Rather it may be said that both are right in their own location. Causes may be purely local. The moor- going bee-keeper must settle the question for himself in his own district, and, having settled it, must work accordingly, remov- ing all stores if necessary and putting his hees on to combs filled with syrup or summer honey, or, on the other hand, allowing them to winter on their own sealed stores. In conclusion, I wish to say that when a bee-keeper has arrived at a certain stage of competence in the management of bees in his home apiary, for what I have called, for lack of better definition, " one crop only," he cannot do better than turn his thoughts to heather-going. "When he has done so, and has completed one season's working only, he will be com- pelled to admit that he is only on the threshold of bee-keeping as a paying hobby, or even as a business. He w
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