. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. June 4, 1908.] THE BRITISH BEE JOURNAL. 225 seen in the picture, one of whom is the writer of these notes (M. E. Varty). It is now about fifteen years since we com- menced bee-keeping, by attending a sale by auction, a few stocks of bees in skeps being included in the catalogue. We purchased a good strong lot for 5s., knowing very little about how to deal with our purchase. But we were intent on learning all we could, and with this object bought a few books on bees, among them the ' Guide Book,' which was found to be the most useful of all
. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. June 4, 1908.] THE BRITISH BEE JOURNAL. 225 seen in the picture, one of whom is the writer of these notes (M. E. Varty). It is now about fifteen years since we com- menced bee-keeping, by attending a sale by auction, a few stocks of bees in skeps being included in the catalogue. We purchased a good strong lot for 5s., knowing very little about how to deal with our purchase. But we were intent on learning all we could, and with this object bought a few books on bees, among them the ' Guide Book,' which was found to be the most useful of all for either beginners or others. Our nest purchase was a stock of bees in a frame-hive, and then we started making our own. All those seen in photo are home-made, except the two skeps and the one we bought as will be seen, a few ' Wells' hives in the photo, but, after a good many years' trial, we do not think much of them, and I would not recommend them to be- ginners. For myself (as the writer of these notes), I like the 'W. B. C pat- tern best of all. One of my brothers, however, has got a ' Wells' hive, and when I visited him last year I had a look through it, and on one side of the dummy was a good strong lot of bees, but a weak lot on the other—a state of things often found with the 'Wells' hive. Only in exceptional cases are both lots found to do well. "The portable wood building partly seen is 20 ft. long by 10 ft. wide, and in it was done all the hive-making, &c, and. THE BROTHERS VARTY S APIARY, PLEASLEY, NEAR MANSFIELD, DERBYSHIRE. stocked with bees, as mentioned above. As time went on and hives were got ready for use, we began driving bees for skeppists. We had the bees for driving, and in this way we were able to get to- gether an apiary of about thirty-five hives in a few years. We got a very good strain of black bees from one old skep- pist, which proved very useful on the show-bench, and we got many prizes with them at shows. We have also been suc- ces
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