. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. Jan. 23,1908.] THE BRITISH BEE JOURNAL. .';.", some time afterwards found the bees com- fortably ensconced under the roof, which they had filled with combs. " Never having seen anyone handle bees, I naturally made some amusing blunders. After keeping bees for about two years, and just as I began to under- stand things, I had to remove the hives to my father's home; but I paid them periodical visits for something like ten or eleven years. This gave me an oppor- tunity sometime® for seeing a swarm, at other times for removing the h
. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. Jan. 23,1908.] THE BRITISH BEE JOURNAL. .';.", some time afterwards found the bees com- fortably ensconced under the roof, which they had filled with combs. " Never having seen anyone handle bees, I naturally made some amusing blunders. After keeping bees for about two years, and just as I began to under- stand things, I had to remove the hives to my father's home; but I paid them periodical visits for something like ten or eleven years. This gave me an oppor- tunity sometime® for seeing a swarm, at other times for removing the hives to the heather, and lastly for the annual 'take.' Three stocks were usually kept over the winter, and these received the bees driven from those 'put down.' T was never an advocate for the sulphur- pit, and would not adopt that cruel prac- the district is a poor one for honey, I re- solved to try a hive or two. I brought hither two of the old hives about the year 1893 or 1894, and then made inquiries from bee-keepers in the neighbourhood about any bee-papers published, if there were such. In this way I got the Record, and later on—in 1896—the From these I received much valued help in the management of the movable-frame hive. I began with double-walled hives taking twelve frames hung parallel to entrance. A few years ago, however, I began to make all my hives on the ' W. B. C model, and prefer them to all others. I now make them -so that a stock can be divided at a moment's notice should the bees swarm. My 'takes' of honey were very moderate until I began to feed in. MB. D. A. VALLANCE S APIARY, DUNASKIN, AYRSHIRE. tice. I set the two stocks that were to be united close together, and, when the time came for operating, 'drummed' one of them. The other hive was inverted and about 3 in. of the lower edges of combs cut out. This made a. cavity into which I threw the driven lot after sprinkling each with a little thin syrup. The 'sole' was then quickly put on, the hiv
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