36- A Modem Bee-fanti 



early, these will get to work in earnest, and give him little- 

 trouble ; but the more backward colonies will have most 

 brood just when they ought to be storing heavily, and 

 will be more inclined to waste time in swarming. 



Uniting or Doubling 



as already explained, will rectif)- this difficult}', using or 

 rearing for the purpose, young queens to take the place of 

 the older mothers ; and seeing that the\inited populations 

 have always plenty of room in advance of their require- 

 ments. 



A Heavy Flow of Long Duration 



may not often occur, but during the season of 1893, the 

 bees had a remarkable time in this country ; fine steady 

 weather lasting from early Spring until Autumn. There 

 were practically no swarms, and strange to tell, compara- 

 tively little honey gathered by the majority of bee- 

 keepers. 



With a great many owners it was one of those strange 

 cases of " sliding," of sheer helplessness, and yet a little 

 management at the right time would have rolled in tons 

 of the honey then going to waste because the bees were 

 not numerous enough to secure it. 



Only think of a honey flow commencing so early that 

 the bees were hardly roused from their winter's rest, ere 

 they were at work as hard as they could go, from earl)- 

 morning till late in the evening, day after da)', week alter 

 week, without intermission. And the result — -breeding 

 combs clogged with stores, principally pollen, before the 

 brood nest could be expanded, and long before the- 

 bees were numerous enough to enter surplus chambers. 



What an opportunity was here lost by many ! Stocks 

 on hand, and yet having no power to accumulate the 

 wasting riches offered by Nature's bounteous hand ; 



