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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
Contributing Library: UMass Amherst Libraries
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April 26, 1900.) THE BRITISH BEE JOURNAL. 165 cerned, for his thorough business habits are infused into all the voluntary work he under- takes. We hope his interest in bee-keeping may long continue, for such help as he renders is ail for its good. Of himself, at our request, he writes :— " In reply to your request, I am sorry I cannot mention anything novel or original in the plans of managing my bees, and therefore have really little to say that will interest the readers of your very valuable and instructive publications, the British Bee Journal and Bee-keepers' Record, both of which I regularly receive and derive much pleasure and useful information from. " It is about twenty years or more since I first became interested in bees and their work, " However, later, when I practically retired from a busy life, bees were added to my several amusements. For the last five years I have taken an active part in our bee-keeping industry in this county, to which I have devoted considerable time, having au ardent desire to assist in developing so useful, profit- able, intellectual, and interesting a pursuit, worthy and capable of very considerable advancement in this country, and which I hope to see much more extended and practised than at present. I venture to think this will be the cise, owing to the active assistance rendered and the good work carried out by the British Bee-keepers' Association and the many county associations affiliated thereto. " The accompanying photo shows my out-
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MR. F. B. WHITES OUT-APIARY, REDHILL, SURREY. and my first information as regards their habits and management was obtained from the perusal of the Rev. J. G. Wood's book, entitled ' Bees, their Hibits, Management,' &c. Since that time I have studied other works, amongst them Mr. Cowan's ' Guide Book' and his 'Honey Bee,' Cheshire's 'Bees and Bee- keepinsr,' Cook's Manual, besides the works of Dzeirzon, Langstroth, Huish, Huber, Quinbey, also several others which I cannot at this moment remember. " I should have started keeping bees at the time I first became interested in them but for the fact that my professional calling left little or no time for bees to be added to gardening, which has always been my means of recrea- tion. apiary, situated about a quarter of a mile from my home, and in the kitchen-garden attached to my house there are many more stocks, numbering at both apiaries thirty-nine. I have also a stock working in a ten-frame standard observatory hive in my study, for the purpose of observation and to initiate be- ginners into the first stages of bee manage- ment. I am always pleased to see all that come, wishing to assist every one willing to take up bee-keeping. " In the photo on the left of the picture is my eldest son, who, along with my other children, is greatly interested and carries out many manipulations with the bees. Even my youngest boy aged eight, has his own stock of bees to look after and does all himself."

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