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Title: British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser
Identifier: britishbeejourna1911lond (find matches)
Year: 1873 (1870s)
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Subjects: Bees
Publisher: London
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Nov. 16, 1911.) THE BRITISH BEE JOURNAL. 455 led there daily, but in spite of this I have kept bees at my present place for forty years. I naturally thought that the natives here would teach me the craft, but I soon found myself drawing verj- large diagrams, giving lectures, and mani- pulating bees in the bee-tent. When I began, there was a magazine conducted by the late Mr. Charles Nash Abbott, and bees were shown at the Crystal Palace by a gentleman who took for his motto "Never kill a bee," because at that time almost always bees were killed when their honey was harvested. At first I made innumerable experiments as to hives, using the ordinary skeps at the beginning, then buying large flat skeps and fixing wooden tops adapted for glass bells, which were much used by Mr. A. the back ^\ as taken off and a long case hooked on, all the bars, which were hinged together, could be drawn out and the bees on each side of all the combs could be seen. This was very well received at Brighton Park, and at Preston^ where Mr. Cowan presided. He. was very kind, and though it was not for competition, gave me a certificate of merit. I took the same exhibit to London, and was so disappointed with the result that I shut it up and returned home, not a single question being asked. I was soon asked to send it North, but I wrote to the secretary, saying that it had been badly received in London, so that I was dis- heartened, and did not mean to try again. I am now nearly eighty-five, and my sons attend to mv business. I can still em-
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A VETEUAN BEE-KEEPER (mB.. F. V. H.\DLOW) IN HIS APIARY AT BUXTED, SUSSEX. Neighbour. Once I fitted bars into a round skep, but it was not long before I found the immense advantage of the now indispensable bar frames in rectangular hives. On one occasion when "Peace" was in the air, I made my bees work out the word in honey-comb, and exhibited it at a Brighton Flower Show. A lady who was much pleased with it asked me how it was done, and as it would not have been •easy to explain, I told her that one had to wliisper to the bees overnight what you wanted, but added that it was just as well to give them at the same time a "plan" of operations. Once after a great deal of 'thought I invented an observatory hive -with glass sides for show purposes. The l)ees were on bars in a square hive, but if 1 ploy myself with roses, bees, &c., but I re- I quire help. All my hives are home-made, I though I am not a carpenter, but an engraver. I provide a bee-way at the top of each hive by having a wooden cover under the quilts; this is lifted ^in. above the bars and is divided into about six pieces, the largest being provided with a feed-hole. The other five vary in size, till the last is only lin. wide. In order to regulate the supply of naphthaline, I make shoi't round boxes of perforated zinc, which are fitted into round holes at the lower part of the back; these can be examined at any time without distiirbins the bees.

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