British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser . an enthusiastic bee-keeper of the best sort in adapting himselfto changed conditions. Not only so, butit shows how a real love for bees may beginin boyhood and continue undiminishedthrough life. For the rest, our friendsinteresting and useful Notes need noaddition from us beyond saying that wehope they will be taken to heart by says: — hints on bee-management; but, havinggiven up farming to -aVe up vn,ik in thetown shortly aftei, this change put an endto my bee-keeping for a time. The wi-it<rofthe Handy Book enter*tained a veiystrong op
British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser . an enthusiastic bee-keeper of the best sort in adapting himselfto changed conditions. Not only so, butit shows how a real love for bees may beginin boyhood and continue undiminishedthrough life. For the rest, our friendsinteresting and useful Notes need noaddition from us beyond saying that wehope they will be taken to heart by says: — hints on bee-management; but, havinggiven up farming to -aVe up vn,ik in thetown shortly aftei, this change put an endto my bee-keeping for a time. The wi-it<rofthe Handy Book enter*tained a veiystrong opinion that wooden hives were alto-gether unsuitable habitations for bees, anddid all in his power to discontinue theiruse. It would, no doubt, astonish liim ifhe could return and see how completelythey are adopted by all advanced bee-keepers of the present day. Cbdngaig myresidence later on to one on the outskirtsof the tovsTi, my old hankering for the beesasserted itself, and eleven years ago Istarted with a good swarm hived a fortnight. MR. S. POWLSONS apiary, BEDFORD STREET, , In complying with your request fora few notes in connection with the photo-graph of my town bee-garden, I may saythat I have been interested in bee-keepingfrom boyhood, my father having kept beesin the early fifties, when I -wras quite aboy; and I well remember, when assistingin the cruel work of the sulphur-pit, howI used to listen for the hum of the beesdying away, as they were overcome ~bj thedeadly fumes of the burning sulphur. Lateron, while living in the country, I kept a fewskeps, but, as I did not destroy the bees,my profit was small. About this period Iobtained a copy of Pettigrews Handy Bookof Bees, and from it I learned some useful before, removing it ten or a dozen miles byrail. The task was very carefully carriedout, as I imagined, but on turning theskep over on to its stand several of thenewly-built combs fell down all in a heapwith the weight of honey gathered, and inconsequence
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