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Title: British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser
Identifier: britishbeejourna1903lond (find matches)
Year: 1873 (1870s)
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Subjects: Bees
Publisher: London
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March 5, 1903.) THE BRITISH BEE JOURNAL. 95 photo seen, and for the rest we need add nothing to the interesting " Notes ' written at our request as follows :— " The story of my bees is a short one, and does not possess much incident. It begins much as fairy tales usually end—' They all got married, and lived happy ever after,' which, being interpreted, means that the queen bees' honeymoon over, they set up housekeeping, and all went well. Mistakes, of course, on my part have occurred at intervals. The intervals seem now to be of longer duration than when I first undertook the management of my apiary three years ago, and I feel that I am outgrowing my novitiate. This apiary was started in 1894 by one of my sons, now in Somehow, one of my stocks had contracted a cross with a Ligurian strain, and so vicious did they prove that Mr. Brown recommended me to get rid of them. 1 did not, however, do so, and, strange to say, they during last year developed an abnoit perfectly angelic tempera- ment, besides which they have proved most industrious. " The first year, with my apiary 'on my back,' was a sad one. Oh ! the silly mistakes I made, too silly to record ; and, oh ! the stings I got, so that deep within my heart grew the thought, ' Shall I be able to go on with my bees, or must I give them up ?' This thought I nipped in the bud, and the outer world never guessed that the seeds of doubt
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MRS. spencer's apiary, HOLYWELL, ST. IVES HUNTINGDONSHIRE. South Africa, who went away in 1899, when I took it over. It consisted of seven stocks. I had assisted him continually, and so had gathered a few grains of knowledge, but I have since found out that to assist without any burden of responsibility is quite a different matter from having the whole apiary ' on my own back.' My back would probably have broken had it not been for the willing helpfulness of Mr. R, Brown, of Somersham, who would fly here, so to speak, almost as quickly as one of his own bees to aid me in any difficulty. Once I feared I should tire his patience, so very troublesome was I ; not only so, but my naughty bees went for him, and gave him ' what for' more than once. had ever germinated, for in its place there grew another and a greater one—enthusiasm. "If any one were to ask me the question, 'How to start an apiary 1' or, ' How to manage the honey bee )' I should give them this recipe : —' Take four parts of enthusiasm, add one part of cDmmon-sense, one part of perseverance, one part of courage ; mix well in the mortar of time, and bottle for use, apply- ing, as occasion may require, with the brush of patience.' With such a mixture one must, I think, succeed. " Although my success is small compared to that of many another apiarist, I have succeeded in the past, and, as a proof of this, I may state that my bees pay. In 1901, with only

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