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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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Dec. 27, 1900.J THE BRITISH BEE JOURNAL. 507 HOMES OF THE HONEY BEE. THE APIARIES OF OUR READERS. Mr. Woods—seen at work in his bee-garden illustrated below—is so well known among all who take any interest in bee-shows as to need no introduction beyond what is conveyed in the following notes regarding himself and his bee-keeping. He says :— " My first connection with bees came about in this way :—A labourer who lived at the bottom of my father's garden cut down a willow-tree (in the hollow trunk of which a stock of bees had located themselves) and set it up in our garden, as he had no room in his own. The bees did well in their queer hive, fed up to required strength. After this I caught the bee-fever badly and am not con- valescent yet. In 1889 I started exhibiting honey at shows, and took 2nd for run-honey on my first attempt. In 1890 I took 1st and the B.B.K.A. silver medal at our county show, besides several other prizes. The next year was still more successful on the show-bench. I then ventured an exhibit at the Dairy Show, and was unplaced at my first attempt; but, determined not to be cast down, I took stock of what I saw, and, working up to the higher standard, have scarcely looked back since. One of my greatest treats is to visit the dairy show and shake hands with bee-keeping friends from all parts of the country I meet there.
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MR. W. H. WOODS APIARY, HEMINGFORD GREY, ST. IVES, HUNTS. and later on I helped him to hive the swarms (into straw skeps, of course), put on bell- glasses, and take them off, &c., when full. In this way I took a fancy to bee-work, and soon had invitations to hive swarms for our neighbours who kept bees, but did not like to handle them themselves. Eventually I started on my own account with a swarm given me by our then vicar's wife, as a reward for hiving swarms for her. During the winter of 1886 and 1887, I attended a lecture in the schoolroom given by that pioneer of modern bee-keeping in Hunts., Mr. C. N. White, and under his guidance and tuition 1 began in the following autumn on the modern system with two frame-hives stocked with driven bees, and " The long double hive in the front of the picture is a home-made improved ' Well's,' but the ' improvement' did not work. The hives seen are not all I possess, but I draw the line at thirty six stocks, that being as many as I can manage with comfort. Although a wheelwright by trade, working with my father, I rarely make my own hives, for after working among wood all day one does not take kindly to it again at night. One of my favourite hives for single-handed work is J. H. Howard's 'B 1.' I had this hive open looking for a young queen when the photo was taken, but as it has only a 15^ in. top-bar, it is not likely to be a general favourite. The high trees at the back of the picture are limes, of

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