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Title: British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser
Identifier: britishbeejourna1901lond (find matches)
Year: 1873 (1870s)
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Subjects: Bees
Publisher: London
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Jan. 17, 1901.) THE BRITISH BEE JOURNAL. 25 my house). Being a breeder of prize fowls, as well as a bee-keeper, I have the hives located in the ' runs' where the birds are kept', and I have reared many a winner at our big shows. I find the bees do not interfere with the grown up fowls in the least, but I cannot rear chickens in the runs where the hives stand, as the bees sting them, and they die. I have therefore to devote the other end of the field of about four acres to the latter purpose. "I began bee-keeping in 1895, after visiting a local show, where honey was staged and a demonstration given in the bee-tent. My interest being aroused, I started the following autumn by purchasing two stocks in straw I next offered to exchange some swarm in the second-hand hive, and, fearing foul brood, I cut out a piece of comb and sent it to the B.B.J, office, where it was declared to be foul brood (as I thought). I treated the stock as instructed in ' Guide Book,' driving the bees out and confining them in a box for twenty-four hours. I then burnt all the frames and quilts, thoroughly cleaned the hive and painted it with carbolic acid, and put the bees back on full sheets of foundation. All went on well for a time, but at the end of the year the stock was as bad as ever, and I had six other stocks affected. I therefore destroyed the first affected stock, and burnt the hive. I attribute the mischief entirely to buying and using second-hand hives. The other
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MR. JOHN KDWARDS'S APIARY, CALL1NGT0N, CORNWALL. fowls for hives, by advertisement in B.B.J., and in this way got three (second-hand ones). I then bought the 'Guide Book1 (Cowan's), and worked according to the instructions given therein, and with the assistance of Mr. Jno. Brown, Polyphant, expert of the Cornwall B.K.A., and Dr. H. Daveys, jun., Callington, a bee-keeper of experience, I was put in a fair way of getting on. The following year I had my first swarm, which issued in May, and was established in one of frame-hives already mentioned. I got no surplus honey that year, but increased my stock to eight colonies with swarms and driven bees. In the following spring I suspected something was wrong with the May hives that became affected I cleaned out, and painted the insides with three coat3 of white lead paint. I have not had a trace of disease in them since, but I am very careful. I always use naphthaline in the hives every spring before supers are put on, and again after the supers come off. All section-racks and appliances are placed in a large box at the end of season, and well disinfected with burn- ing brimstone. I also paste paper over all the joints of the box, when using, to make it air- tight. When feeding the bees I invariably use naphthol beta in all syrup and candy. " I find it such a real pleasure to one's ordi- nary pursuits to get among the bees for an hour or two that I would recommend all

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