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Title: British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser
Identifier: britishbeejourna1908lond (find matches)
Year: 1873 (1870s)
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Subjects: Bees
Publisher: London
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Xov. 26, 1908.) THE BRITISH BEE JOURNAL. 475 soon after they were placed in position, so I think the change from country to town must have been the cause, as now, being all town-bred, they know how to behave better, and do not try, as they did at first, to gather honey from my neigh- bour's bald pate, which they must have taken for a sunflower. The hive in front is a nucleus, containing one of Mr. Sladen's golden queens, fertilised and introduced on the same spot, as seen, to be united later to the hive in the rear, as that is the one I usually keep stocked with bees, finding that one hive is enough in the busy season, although I have kept as many as four hives at a time. I think that although the bees were not too thick for me, maybe the neighbours find them a the bees need more room, and I have often watched the queen laying in the end comb. I also have an out-apiary of about a dozen hives some distance away, but am sorry to say foul brood appeared this sea- son, so I have had to clear out all combs and unite bees. 1 have fed up on medi- cated syrup as advised in "Guide Book," and hope by next season I shall be free once more from the pest. I sent some honey up to the Grocers' Exhibition this year, but, taking into account the number of entries and that it was my first attempt at showing, • I could not be dis- appointed at not coming out on top. How- ever, I shall try again next year.—R. E. Sainsbuey, Southampton.
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MR. R. E. SAINSBURY S OXE-HIVE APIARY, SOUTHAMPTON. nuisance, so I am now contented with my single stock. I work mostly for extracted honey, and took as much as 80 lb. from the one hive in 1906; this year I did not do so well, as I had a poor queen. I ought to have re-queened the hive early, but was too busy to do it at that time. Still, I got twenty-one sections and 30 lb. of extracted honey from them in shallow-frames, as seen in my hand. The hive is on the "Cowan" principle, and I can tier up three boxes of shallow-frames or sections as required; there is a door at the back, and a glass fitted to brood- chamber, which often pleases the young folk who come into the garden to play, whilst T myself only have to glance at the glass at the back to see when MANAGEMENT AT THE HEATHER. WANTED : BETTER METHODS AND RESULTS. (7294.) The problem of securing larger yields of comb heather honey is one that .appeals strongly to moormen, for, be the season ever so good, demand and prices are ever sure. Mr. W. S. Watson (page 465) thinks that the road to success lies along the line of divisible brood-chambers. With divisible hives worked in white clover-heather districts the usual pro- cedure is to super over all twenty frames to begin with, then when preparing for the heather contract to ten, and so crowd the bees into the sections. This is theoretically sound, but in practice rather disappointing. With clover yielding freely

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