Title: British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser
Identifier: britishbeejourna1902lond (find matches)
Year: 1873 (1870s)
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Subjects: Bees
Publisher: London
Contributing Library: UMass Amherst Libraries
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Jan. 2, 1902.) THE BRITISH BEE JOURNAL. 5 to emphasise the last word of caution \o those who contemplate makiDg a start in the craft. Only those with some aptitude should start at all. "I started bee-keeping in July, 1895, by the purchase of a skep at a sale. At that time I only knew that bees had stings and gathered honey. However, having got my skep, I went to a bookseller's shop and inquired for the lest 'bock on bee-keeping.' Asked if I meant in skeps or in box-frame hives, I replied ' skeps,' as I ' knew nothing about frame - hives.' Result ; Pettigrew's ' Handy Book of Bees,' which I thought at the time was a grand book. • In the autumn of same year I b)ught three condemned lots of bees, driving them for my district I find it better to make it take twelve frames instead of ten. " When the photo was taken I had twenty- one stocks away at the heather, but somehow they did not increase their stores much this season, although there was plenty of blossom. Oars is a very fair district for honey, but I find it tells against a big average take when one goes in for selling swarms and queens, of which latter I rear a good many, and have sent them about all over the country. Still I have managed to get about 15 cwt. of honey for each of the past three years. My best stocks have given me over 100 lb. of surplus honey each year for now four years running. The number of my colonies varies from fifty to ninety, as I sell a good many stocks during
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MR. E. CARBINES' APIARY, VENN, CARUINHAM, CORNWALL. myself from Pettigrew's directions. By some means my original stock in skep died in the winter that followed, but I succeeded in bringing the three driven lots safely through, and they did well the following summer. From those three lots practically the whole of the bees and bee-produce 1 now possess has been obtained. "In the second year of my bee-keeping I first learned of the B. B. J., then of Mr. Cowan's ' Guide Book,' and, of course, soon wanted to know what the frame-hive was like, so bought one from a well-kaown maker. Since then I have made all my own. And after having tried almost all shapes and sizes (keeping always to the ' Standard' frame) I much prefer those on the ' W. B. C.' plan, but the year, and then increase by m aas if nuclei usually. " Nearly all my honey is sold wholesale at from 7d. to lOd, nor have I had much difficulty in disposing of my crop till this year, when I find myself with about 600 lb. on hand for disposal. " I have this year staged honey at our local shows in eight classes, and from this number have secured one 1st, three 2uds, and three 3rds, which I think very good. I have also this year obtained the ' Expert's Certificate' of the B.B.K.A. " Unlike many of our bee-men, I possess no ' better half to bottle up the honey and pocket the money, but have a sister as housekeeper (who, by the way, worked the shutter for the

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