. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. MISS HELEN LAURENCES APIARY, EAST KESWICK, NEAR LEEDS. early bee-keeping experience beyond what has already appeared in the Journal for April 5, 1894. I commenced tee-keeping in July, 1891, a perfect novice in the craft, with one swarm of bees, and was taken in hand by the Yorkshire Bee-keepers' Association and in- structed how to proceed, in order to secure the best results, by Mr. W. Dixon, of Leeds. I may say it is to his advice and help that my success is mainly due. I am fortunate in living in a good district for bees ; a good deal of
. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. MISS HELEN LAURENCES APIARY, EAST KESWICK, NEAR LEEDS. early bee-keeping experience beyond what has already appeared in the Journal for April 5, 1894. I commenced tee-keeping in July, 1891, a perfect novice in the craft, with one swarm of bees, and was taken in hand by the Yorkshire Bee-keepers' Association and in- structed how to proceed, in order to secure the best results, by Mr. W. Dixon, of Leeds. I may say it is to his advice and help that my success is mainly due. I am fortunate in living in a good district for bees ; a good deal of the land about here is pasture, and grows a quantity of white clover. There are also several large market gardens near, where a quantity of rasps and strawberries, as well as stone fruit, is grown, so that we get plenty of too much mess and dirt for the quantity of honey you get from them, I greatly prefer frame-hivef, they are so much cleaner and better to manage. Skeps are all right if you want a little honey, no trouble with manipu- lating, and are not very particular about quantity. But then you have to destroy so much brood in appropriating your share ot the bees' ; Beginning, as stated above, in '91 with a single swarm, Miss Laurence increased her stock to seven the following year, and, like so many others, added a " Wells" hive to the list. All of these stocks she wintered safely, and in 1893 secured from them 450 lb. of honey and ten swarms—a capital result under. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original London
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