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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 31, 1900.) THE BRITISH BEE JOURNAL. 215 the other for my sister. During our first summer's experience the skeps each swarmed twice ; all four swarms being duly hived, making up our bee-possessions to six stocks. The two lightest were in the autumn consigned to the sulpbur-pit according to custom, leaving two stocks each to the respective owners. One morning in late autumn we were surprised to find my sister's two hives had disappeared ! and, doubtless, our two would have gone too, but for the fact that my brother and myself had cut holes in the tops of our skeps to put a small straw super above. Anyway, the thieves had apparently tried to appropriate them, but the holes in the top allowed the bees to escape, and I suppose the thieves found it prudent to ' escape ' also. By reading what books I could get hold of, such as Payne's ' Manual of Bee- that heather honey will not leave the combs unless pressed out. I used at that time to make all my own hives, whether straw skeps, Ste war ton's, bar-frames or glass, but have not now much time for hive-building. I work mainly for sections but can never manage to get any very early ones, my principal source of honey being clover, limes, and heather; my bees working on the latter until quite late in September if the weather is right. After trying most varieties of bees, I only keep natives. My ' take ' of honey last year was about 600 sections and a small quantity of extracted. "I first began taking the B.B.J, when the late Mr. 0. N. Abbott was the editor, and the late Rev. H. R. Peel was Secretary of^he Association ; I also helped in the formation of our Hants B.K.A., being one of the founders.
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MB. w. T, Joyce's apiart, farnborough, hants. Keeping,' Pettigrew's ' Handy Book of Bees,' &c., I got an insight into the better plan of working, and, being in the wood line, I soon began to make my own hives ; the first being one with fixed combs and a span glass roof (also a fixture) and contrary to the bee books at that time. I also found the honey was a ' fixture' in the combs, for drain out it would not. I well remember at the first bee show at the Crystal Palace in '74 asking the late Mr. F. R. Cheshire and one or two other well-known gentlemen if they could tell me why my honey would not run or drain out of the combs. They were unable to explain the cause. However, after those splendid exhibits of Scotch ' Stewarton' supers staged on that memorable occasion, it soon became known " I find a much greater demand for sections than for extracted honey, so I work principally for the former. I am always careful to have every section scraped nice and clean and free from propolis, of which the bees use a great quantity in this neighbourhood. I also care- fully grade the difi'erent qualities and pack them in half-dozen parcels, with a cardboard square at each end, and store them away on shelves in a warm corner until wanted ; and by so doing I find they usually keep in good condition until the next season ; but I ara generally able to sell out all my stock long before then, and have to buy to replenish it. My experience is that it is no use waiting at home, and expecting purchasers to come for our produce. I have had to create arjd find

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