Weather Prejudices
No weather suits everything. Bees and apples have had as bad as corn and potatoes and plums a good season ; and even a good harvest may have its disadvantages. Plums are too many in comparison with the supply of jam-making sugar, and early potatoes are already a drug on the market. Unduly frightened by the Ministries, every grower in garden as on farm has grown his maximum, and the inability to sell is largely due to the small gardener's home supply. As to the bees, the yield of honey is likely in many apiaries to be less than the rather generous supply of bee-sugar. May wasps (as so far seems not unlikely) have fared worse than the bees! Butterflies are another genus that has fared badly, though there is news that once again the powerful milk-weed butterfly (whose unusual power of flight I noticed in Argentina) has " gone frantic and flown the Atlantic " ; and for myself I was astonished at the number of caterpillars of the not less gorgeous swallow-tail.
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