DOUBLE SUMMER FOR BEES
Bees have not yet given notice of strik** ing for an eight-hour day, hut they niar yet cot together and protest against the double-season work, which it is stated fins been started bv an ingenious beekeeper in British Columbia. To make- his bees gather two crop« of honey per year instead of one. he had adopted the plan of keeping them in British Colundbn during th« northern summer and then shipping them across tho equator to Australia when winter comes to the Northern Hemisphere. Aftev tho voyage across the Pacific Gift are supposed to emerge from their hives and start to work on their second ‘umnmr of tlje y«ar
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New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12607, 18 November 1926, Page 8
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113DOUBLE SUMMER FOR BEES New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12607, 18 November 1926, Page 8
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