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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. 31, 1901.) THE BRITISH BEE JOURNAL. 45 HOMES OF THE HONEY BEE. THE APIARIES OF OUR READERS. The picture below represents a corner only of Mr. Scurrah's bee-garden and some half dozen hives. He kindly sent us a well-drawn pencil sketch of his full apiary of thirty hives all shown, hoping that we could in some way combine the sketch and photo. Unfortunately, however, a " tone-block " can only be true to nature as shown in the photo and so we must be content to let Mr. Scurrah's " text" explain the rest, when he writes us as follows :— 11 In accordance with the promise I made you at the 'Royal' Show at York to send some account of our bee-garden, I enclose a photo, of a few of the hives, which are so while I quickly saw and appreciated the advantages secured by the movable frame-hive and a frame of uniform size for all bee-keepers' use. " My son-in-law, H. F. Garnett, becoming an enthusiast over the bees, joined me, and we work about thirty stocks for both comb and extracted honey. Ours is a fairly good clover district, and being within carting distance of the heather, we are enabled to secure a double harvest. "If it was not for le3s accommodation re- quired in single wall hives, I should most certainly make no other pattern of hive except the ' W. B. C.,' but the extra width makes a serious difference in the space taken up by hives with outer-cases and stands
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MR. WM. SCURRAH'S APIARY, WELL, BEDALE, YORKSHIRE. widely distributed that it is impossible to show more than a tithe of them in a photo. With regard to my bee-keeping, I have had a long experience, my father starting on the old-fashioned plan not less than sixty yeara ago, and ever since that time we have kept the same strain of bees, without any attempt at introducing new blood. Of course, there is always the possibility of queens meeting with strange drones in their marital flight, and over this we have no control. " I began with movable frame hives about eight years ago, and after borrowing a hive as a pattern to work by, I made two from it. Fortunately I had got hold of one made to ake the ' standard' frame, and have there- • ore had no occasion to make any alterations, when carting to the moors. We have also worked one hive on the "Wells" system with great success. " I may add we have been much indebted to the B.B.J, and Mr. Cowan's 'Guide Book' for any success we may have achieved in what has always been a pleasing hobby. "There is no doubt about bees paying their way, and leaving a handsome profit when kept on up-to-date lines combined with the exercise of intelligent business habits, both in pre- paring the produce for sale and in securing a market for it. I also think that where a man starts bee-keeping without possessing any business aptitude at all he might as well give up at the outset, for he. will never become a bee-keeper of the right sort."

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