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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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Feb. 18, 1904.) THE BRITISH BEE JOURNAL. 65 'Guide Book.' Had I personally fol- lowed this course my start would not have opened with a chapter of accidents. In September, 1901, my son had a driven stock of bees given him, and it was soon evident that I had quite a number of ' profes- sionals ' at work fertilising the carnations in my greenhouse ; but while I much ad- mired the ardour with which the busy little bees worked on the blooms, I wanted them to keep outside the glass, fearing that in their busy haste they would hardly carry out my own plans with regard to cross-fer- tilising ; but the bees thought otherwise, and, in consequence, they are now treated as ' trespassers' whenever caught under the glass. I ' turn them out' by slipping quarrels. Result: about a cupful of the fighting driven bees left alive. I im- mediately bought other two lots of ' con- demned ' bees from a bee-keeper in an ad- joining village, intending to add them to my cupful of conquerors. I expected to have the bees delivered to me in the two empty skeps I took with me. But judge of my surprise when he said, ' There they are, the second and fourth lots in them frame- hives.' Fancy this to one who is afraid of bees, as I then was. It was like a general pointing to the Rock of Gibraltar and saying to a private, ' There it is ; take it! ' I frankly own I was a coward at that time— a veritable coward with bees. But the job had to be got through ; so I bought a pair of
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MR. .Txo. Russell's apiart, ketingham, hull, Yorkshire. an empty match-box (open to its full ex- tremity) over the bee close to the glass ; then slide the box close, and the bee is a prisoner for carrying outside. This ' tip ' may be useful to bee-keepers who possess a greenhouse. I next bought two lots of bees which a neighbour kindly put on a number of combs in a hive for me. I fed the driven bees the same night, and care- lessly left the top partly open. Next morn- ing the garden was full of bees, and ' robbing ' was in full swing. All round the hive, and on the ground, hundreds of bees were fighting, and the dead lay in little heaps. I left them to finish their qu*arrel arnong themselves, remembering the old axiom about interfering in family rubber gloves, borrowed two veils and a smoker, and taking one of my sons with me (he had watched a neighbour driving bees), I went to work, giving them a big dose of smoke both at the entrance and under the quilts ; then I turned up a little of the quilt and gently lifted out the first frame beeless ; the next frame lifted had on it four or five bees ; the third quite covered with them. Not knowing how to get these bees off and into the skep, I piit them back, as they were getting 'lively,' and I felt like retreating. 'Let me try,' said my son, which I was so glad to do, so I worked the bellows. He took out the frame and bees, and holding it over the skep gave the frame a violent shake

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