. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. Dec. 18, 1902.] THE BRITISH BEE JOURNAL. 507 knew of the management of bees. (I had con- tracted the bee-fever in a most virulent form, so I was told, and the infection remains with me still.) So I fed up my stock during September, which came through the winter safely. During the next spring I purchased another stock in a frame hive, and, to my dis- may, just as the honey flow commenced my first stock became queenless, probably by my awkward manipulations. My other stock yielded me 30 lb. of surplus honey—not a bad start, considering my in
. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. Dec. 18, 1902.] THE BRITISH BEE JOURNAL. 507 knew of the management of bees. (I had con- tracted the bee-fever in a most virulent form, so I was told, and the infection remains with me still.) So I fed up my stock during September, which came through the winter safely. During the next spring I purchased another stock in a frame hive, and, to my dis- may, just as the honey flow commenced my first stock became queenless, probably by my awkward manipulations. My other stock yielded me 30 lb. of surplus honey—not a bad start, considering my inexperience. My read- ing led me on to try driving bees, so I pur- chased two more hives; then went into the surrounding villages, found out all the skeppists I could, and offered to drive their bees. I also picture to my right I removed sixty sections, and I have disposed of them all at Is. per section, many of them weighing 18 oz. The bicycle seen in the photo, and the skep, shows the way I convey home my driven lots of bees. I usually manage to fix two skeps, one over the other, and bind them well together, using the driving-irons for that purpose ; then tying well with strong cord. I have a fascination for removing bees from the roofs of houses, and there are many such houses round here, and the bees have never been disturbed in some instances for twelve years. I have removed three such lots this year, and when driving the bees up the combs in one gable-end of a house, ^noticed a large. MR. THOS. WELLS' APIARY, COLCHESTER, ESSEX. gave them a trifle, according to the strength of the stocks. I managed well—thanks for seeing our expert drive bees at a local flower show—for I saved nine stocks from the sulphur-pit, strengthened my two stocks, and increased their number to four. I then joined the Essex and Suffolk Bee-keepers' Associa- tion, and I have never regretted doing so, as much valuable information is gained fiom a good expert. I now make my own hives to take the '
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