. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. THE. n Jommal, Mfe [No. 82. Vol. VII.] FEBRUAKY, 1880. [Published Monthly.] €iaxtaxmlf |tatucs, #r. FEBRUARY. After the dreadful weather of 1879, the New Year opened most promisingly, for New Year's Day was both fine and mild, and the bees were remarkably busy clearing out their dead and the debris from their hives, and rearranging their quarters with a view to future comfort. An ounce or two of barley sugar gave them re- newed vigour, and the sunny hours gave us the opportunity of clearing floor-boards, to aid the bees in their labour, an
. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. THE. n Jommal, Mfe [No. 82. Vol. VII.] FEBRUAKY, 1880. [Published Monthly.] €iaxtaxmlf |tatucs, #r. FEBRUARY. After the dreadful weather of 1879, the New Year opened most promisingly, for New Year's Day was both fine and mild, and the bees were remarkably busy clearing out their dead and the debris from their hives, and rearranging their quarters with a view to future comfort. An ounce or two of barley sugar gave them re- newed vigour, and the sunny hours gave us the opportunity of clearing floor-boards, to aid the bees in their labour, and to warm into new life those that were nearly dead with cold, and which, but for our aid, would have been cast out to perish altogether. Brushing them (all the helpless) into a dish, and covering with a pane of glass, we had the pleasure of seeing many revive, and having given them a little syrup they were set at liberty, and returned to their hives, and thus many hundreds were pre- served. The first four days of January were equally tine, and the bees active, and the fifth a charming day, so warm and sunny that in the absence of a fusee, we lit our bee-pipe by the sun with a small lens, a proceeding quite phenomenal in these days, and worthy of record. Since then, excepting the 18th and 19th, until we write, there has been no sunshine, but the weather has been very cold, often bitterly so, with occasional ram and snow, confining the bees and rendering interference with them im- practicable. Now, considering that bees are better for being inactive during the winter months, cold dull weather is a boon for which bee-keepers cannot well be too thankful, and in their interest we could hope it will continue, broken occasionally by mild intervals, until the crocuses are in bloom, when operations may with a hope of safety be commenced. Being in correspondence with bee-keepers of all grades, in all parts of the kingdom, we are fairly well able to gauge the condition of bee- keeping
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