. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. Oct. 20, 190i.] THE BRITISH BEE JOURNAL. 415 HOMES OF THE HONEY BEE. THE APIARIES OE OUR READERS. The i^icturesque little bee-garden illus- trated below belongs to a reader who may be interested to know that, within easy walking distance of the place where he got his first bee-experiences as a boy, was located the apiary where the Junior Editor passed over twenty years of his earlier life-work among the bees. Of himself our friend Mr. Povall writes as follows : — " The idea of keeping bees was first aroused in me when quite a boy many
. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. Oct. 20, 190i.] THE BRITISH BEE JOURNAL. 415 HOMES OF THE HONEY BEE. THE APIARIES OE OUR READERS. The i^icturesque little bee-garden illus- trated below belongs to a reader who may be interested to know that, within easy walking distance of the place where he got his first bee-experiences as a boy, was located the apiary where the Junior Editor passed over twenty years of his earlier life-work among the bees. Of himself our friend Mr. Povall writes as follows : — " The idea of keeping bees was first aroused in me when quite a boy many years since. I made it a practice of walk- ing two miles every Sunday in the sum- mer, and nothing pleased me more than to we have an abundance of white clover and limes. About the first week of August the bees work the heather on the range cf mountains. " I commenced bee-keeping here in 1896 by purchasing one straw skep. I purchased my little place here about ten years ago. It consists of cottage, garden, and croft, having lived in the Black Country (Wigan) Lancasliire) for many years previously. "My hives are all of the ' pat- tern, and take the standard size frame, of course. I made them myself from bacon- boxes, and have made many others for friends who are now bee-keepers. I work both for extracted and section honey, and can always dispose of my honey at a price. MR. J. POVALL'S APIARY, BODFARI, TREFNANT, N. WALES. see the bees swarming in my uncle's gar- den at Bidston, near Birkenhead. These bees were kept in straw skeps, and in the autumn consigned to the sulphur-pit! I thought, even when a boy, that this was a shame to destroy the poor bees to get the honey; and am thankful to say we now live in more enlightened times. Con- cerning the photo sent, and your request for a few notes on my bee-management, I may say my cottage is situated in the far- famod Vale of Clwyd. We have the Clwyd- ian range of mountains, as seen in picture, about one mile from her
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