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Title: British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser
Identifier: britishbeejourna1900lond (find matches)
Year: 1873 (1870s)
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Subjects: Bees
Publisher: London
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May 10, 1900.) THE BRITISH BEE JOUHNAL. 185 my home-made smoker giving- out. I stuck to the job, however, and got them in the new hive all right after receiving nearly a hundred stings. The following spring to my dismay I found one lot was atfected with foul brood, 80 I made a swarm of the hees, and after confin- ing them forty-eight hours, put them in a clean hive and fed them up with medicated syrup. I kept giving frames of foundation as the bees increased, and worked them up to a good stock during that summer. The old combs I burnt and disinfected the hive. I did not see any- thing more of foul brood for several years afterwards. At last I found it again in four stocks ; two of these I burnt outright. From the other I removed all combs containing dead brood, and united the two lots of bees on my largest was in 1887 when I extracted 129 lb. from the supers and left the bees plenty of stores to winter on. I always return swarm? if not wanted, but kill the old queen beforehand. When stocks need re- queening I remove the old queen at end of July and let the bees requeen themselves. After removal of all supers 1 examine combs in each brood-nest to see if they are healthy and queen is all right, then see what food they require, if any, and note it down. Two balls of naphthaline are next put on each floorboard ; top of frames are then scraped and sticks placed across them for bee-passage above frame-tops. The hives are then left alone, shut down snugly and warm, till early next April when I go through all again and
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MR. S. BAILEYS APIARY, ITCHINGFIELD, NEAR HORSHAM, SUSSEX. the best and cleanest of the combs from both hives. Thus joined they made a fairly strong stock ; they were fed up with medicated syrup and did pretty well the next season, but the disease was not quite cleared out, for a few affected cells soon showed themselves, and next year I found them bad again. I therefore made short work of it and burnt the lot. My opinion is, that when foul brood gets the upper hand at all, the best and cheapest way is to stamp it out by burning. " My apiary now consists of nineteen colonies. The extracting-house is seen in the centre of photo. I make all my hives, Scandard frames, and section-racks ; the extracting-house 1 built myself about seven years ago. "1 have had some good 'takes' of honey. clean floorboards, and feed if required. I very rarely have a queenless stock in spring. " With regard to selling my produce, I have always managed to sell the whole of one season's honey before the next year's crop begins to come in. 1 got about 8 cwt. in 1899, and there is only about 90 lb. left on hand now. This, I have no doubt, will soon be gone. " I have done a good bit of exhibiting at our local shows and at the Crystal Palace, and a good many prizes have come my way, among them the B.B.K.A. silver medal for best exhibit of comb honey at the Crystal Palace in 1891. My better half hives all the swarms, as I am away from home all day. I can honestly say that bee-keepicg will pay with proper management, for they have been a good help in my case. The little

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