. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. THE. %n Snunial, BEE-KEEPERS' RECORD AND ADVISER. No. 427. Vol. XVIir. 35.] AUGUST 23,1890. [Published Weekly. â¬^xinxm\, llotias, &t. USEFUL HINTS. Weather.âThe sunshine which has been vouchsafed to us came too late, we fear, for much hope of beuetit from it. Some very fair returns have been secured, however, in a good many places of which accounts reach us, and we cannot finally fix upon 1890 as an all-round failure. A large number of stocks have apparently gathered food enough to winter on, and we earnestly hope that readers wh
. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. THE. %n Snunial, BEE-KEEPERS' RECORD AND ADVISER. No. 427. Vol. XVIir. 35.] AUGUST 23,1890. [Published Weekly. â¬^xinxm\, llotias, &t. USEFUL HINTS. Weather.âThe sunshine which has been vouchsafed to us came too late, we fear, for much hope of beuetit from it. Some very fair returns have been secured, however, in a good many places of which accounts reach us, and we cannot finally fix upon 1890 as an all-round failure. A large number of stocks have apparently gathered food enough to winter on, and we earnestly hope that readers who attach any value to our advice will do no ' stripping' of brood nests this autumn. The oft-repeated adage, ' The game isn't worth the candle,' will apply with more than usual force in this case, for the bother of extracting a few score pounds of dark honeyâdifficult to turn into cashâ together with the attendant risks of arous- ing the robbing instincts of our bees, make up a combination of sound reasons why the scanty amount of honey in many stocks should be left untouched by the bee-keeper. The bees will be all the better for it, and taking all things into account, it may be said their owners will save their labour and be none the worse in pocket. Bees at the Heather.âSo numerous have been the inquiries as to bees and the heather, and for instructions on moving bees to the moors, that w^e may anticipate a very large amount of success or failure will result. Quite up to the date of writing bees are still being moved heatherwards, and a Yorkshire moor-man has just assured us that they are ' doing well' on the ling, and advises all and sundry who are the possessors of powerful stocks to hurry them up without delay if the journey is within anything like reasonable distance. Heather honey in the comb should bring a good price, and seeing the amount of trouble involved in moving bees to and fro, an â even faii'ly remunerative figure will be not less than one-third higher t
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