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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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Aug. 15, 1901.) THE BRITISH BEE JOURNAL. 325 there are none that I prefer to my own. I have two ' Wells' hives, but do not care much for them'; indeed, at the present time each of the ' Wells' has only one compartment occu- pied. In all my bee-keeping I have only had one stock die on my hands, and although I lost one and destroyed another colony, which was too warm in temper even for me, you may see by the photo that my apiary has not grown to large dimensions. Going in for honey production in preference to swarms, I find that by keeping ahead of the bees' requirements, so far as giving super- room, it seems with me to overcome all trouble with regard to swarms. My hives are worked wholly for sections, but each season two frames are removed from the price, and in the month of April last I had not a shilling's worth of honey left on hand. I find that by dealing fair and having sections perfectly clean, repeat orders are assured. I have a show-case holding six sections (these are glazed and edged with lace-paper) in the window of my dwelling, and one of Mr. Rose's 1 Honey for Sale' transparent window bills. These do the only advertising I find necessary. I may also say that nearly all my appliances as well as the hives are home-made. My son, shown in photo, is a great help in the bee work at all times, and my wife assists a good deal in preparing the honey for sale, but not for the life of me can I persuade her to go near the bees, so myself and son have all that job to ourselveF.
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MR W. APPLEYARD's APIARY, STAINTONDALE STATION (N.E.R.), YORKSHIRE. brood-chamber of each hive, and the combs broken up, the frames being fitted with full sheets of foundation and replaced, so that each hive has the whole of its combs renewed every five years. I am very fortunately placed for disposing of my honey-crop, as many hundreds of visitors in the summer see the hives from the trains, as this place is on the Scarborough and Whitby branch, and holiday seekers are numerous. I got a shilling each retail for all my sections, and so arranged it that every purchaser gets for his shilling a section weighing a full 16 oz. In order to do this the larger ones are put aside, and when a buyer wants two the extra large ones help along those that are under a full 1 lb. Ten shillings a dozen is my wholesale " Finally, my apiary is located in a capital district for honey ; I never have to move the hives for forage. First, we have white clover in plenty, then brambles (blackberries grow here by the ton), then the heather, which is also abundant. I have never kept any record of what any individual hive has yielded, or even of a season's aggregate, having no time for such details, for beyond the bees I have a 30 ft. by 10 ft. greenhouse, which I fill with tomatoes, besides other time-killers. Mr. Cowan's 'Guide Book' is my 'guiding star' in bee-keeping, while the Journal is eagerly looked for, and its useful articles eagerly read every week. I am giving a trial to the new size sections, and hope to report on their success or otherwise later on."

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