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Title: British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser
Identifier: britishbeejourna1904lond (find matches)
Year: 1873 (1870s)
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Subjects: Bees
Publisher: London
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Oct. 20, 190i.) THE BRITISH BEE JOURNAL. 415 HOMES OF THE HONEY BEE. THE APIARIES OE OUR READERS. The i^icturesque little bee-garden illus- trated below belongs to a reader who may be interested to know that, within easy walking distance of the place where he got his first bee-experiences as a boy, was located the apiary where the Junior Editor passed over twenty years of his earlier life-work among the bees. Of himself our friend Mr. Povall writes as follows : — " The idea of keeping bees was first aroused in me when quite a boy many years since. I made it a practice of walk- ing two miles every Sunday in the sum- mer, and nothing pleased me more than to we have an abundance of white clover and limes. About the first week of August the bees work the heather on the range cf mountains. " I commenced bee-keeping here in 1896 by purchasing one straw skep. I purchased my little place here about ten years ago. It consists of cottage, garden, and croft, having lived in the Black Country (Wigan) Lancasliire) for many years previously. "My hives are all of the 'W.B.C pat- tern, and take the standard size frame, of course. I made them myself from bacon- boxes, and have made many others for friends who are now bee-keepers. I work both for extracted and section honey, and can always dispose of my honey at a price
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MR. J. POVALL'S APIARY, BODFARI, TREFNANT, N. WALES. see the bees swarming in my uncle's gar- den at Bidston, near Birkenhead. These bees were kept in straw skeps, and in the autumn consigned to the sulphur-pit! I thought, even when a boy, that this was a shame to destroy the poor bees to get the honey; and am thankful to say we now live in more enlightened times. Con- cerning the photo sent, and your request for a few notes on my bee-management, I may say my cottage is situated in the far- famod Vale of Clwyd. We have the Clwyd- ian range of mountains, as seen in picture, about one mile from here, and on the other side, right across the Vale, about seven miles. The length of the Vale is about twenty miles. In this stretch of coxmtry which, while I consider it fair, pays me well. I generally get beautifidly-linished sections. I commence stimulating my bees in April, and get my hives ' boiling over' with bees by the time the honey- flow commences, which is generally the first week in June. I put one rack of sec- tions on with queen excluder in the even- ing, and pack this down with clean chaff (on all four sides and top of rack), and a square of brown paper fitting tightly on top. The bees are usually up, and partly fill the rack in about four days. If it is a strong colony I then raise the rack and put under it three similar racks, and after packinsr the whole with chaff, leave them until the honey-flow is over. This plan

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