. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. THE. u Jmipat, [No. GO. Vol. V.] APRIL, 1878. [Published Monthly.] (BbkaxxKl, ^atxm, fit. APRIL. The past month of March, if ' a peck of its dust be worth a king's ransom,' has showered untold wealth upon the British nation, for a drier and more dusty period can scarcely have been within the memory of man. Its coming in was traditionally rough, and it was hoped that its lion-like violence would abate with its waning days ; but, alas! its rude and angry blast in 1878 will render it memorable in the annals of time ; for on Sunday, its 24th d
. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. THE. u Jmipat, [No. GO. Vol. V.] APRIL, 1878. [Published Monthly.] (BbkaxxKl, ^atxm, fit. APRIL. The past month of March, if ' a peck of its dust be worth a king's ransom,' has showered untold wealth upon the British nation, for a drier and more dusty period can scarcely have been within the memory of man. Its coming in was traditionally rough, and it was hoped that its lion-like violence would abate with its waning days ; but, alas! its rude and angry blast in 1878 will render it memorable in the annals of time ; for on Sunday, its 24th day, its terrible breath caught the sails of the good ship Eurydice, and blew her over on her beam ends, when she in- stantly sank with three hundred souls on board, and that, too, within half-an-hour of home. Ours is not a journal in which such disasters are usually chronicled, and we do not now men- tion this with a view to investigating into the nature of the calamity, or apportioning the blame which must be clue to some one. But inasmuch as the same freezing blast has pro- bably capsized the hoj>es of many bee-keepers, we think it a subject which may be fairly men- tioned, for in bee-keeping, as well as in nautical affairs, what are called accidents are usually preventable, are capable of being foreseen, or could have been provided for. ' Who would hare thought' that so noble a ship within half-an- hour of port, all sails set, and riding so gaily, woidd have been caught in the fatal squall that filled her sails with snow, and hurled her to the bottom of the sea ? Yet it could have been fore- seen, as by the same rule the disasters which the sudden snap of cold will have caused to bee- keepers might have been foreseen, and many sig- nals have been made in this Journal as warnings to provide against the dangers which would arise therefrom. "We are writing on the 26th, and for the past four days the weather has been ' biting cold,' and the wind rough with scudding snow
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