. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. Jan. 2, 1902.] THE BRITISH BEE JOURNAL. 5 to emphasise the last ''word of caution'' \o those who contemplate makiDg a start in the craft. Only those with some aptitude should start at all. "I started bee-keeping in July, 1895, by the purchase of a skep at a sale. At that time I only knew that bees had stings and gathered honey. However, having got my skep, I went to a bookseller's shop and inquired for the lest 'bock on bee-keeping.' Asked if I meant in skeps or in box-frame hives, I replied ' skeps,' as I ' knew nothing about frame -
. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. Jan. 2, 1902.] THE BRITISH BEE JOURNAL. 5 to emphasise the last ''word of caution'' \o those who contemplate makiDg a start in the craft. Only those with some aptitude should start at all. "I started bee-keeping in July, 1895, by the purchase of a skep at a sale. At that time I only knew that bees had stings and gathered honey. However, having got my skep, I went to a bookseller's shop and inquired for the lest 'bock on bee-keeping.' Asked if I meant in skeps or in box-frame hives, I replied ' skeps,' as I ' knew nothing about frame - hives.' Result ; Pettigrew's ' Handy Book of Bees,' which I thought at the time was a grand book. ''• In the autumn of same year I b)ught three condemned lots of bees, driving them for my district I find it better to make it take twelve frames instead of ten. " When the photo was taken I had twenty- one stocks away at the heather, but somehow they did not increase their stores much this season, although there was plenty of blossom. Oars is a very fair district for honey, but I find it tells against a big average take when one goes in for selling swarms and queens, of which latter I rear a good many, and have sent them about all over the country. Still I have managed to get about 15 cwt. of honey for each of the past three years. My best stocks have given me over 100 lb. of surplus honey each year for now four years running. The number of my colonies varies from fifty to ninety, as I sell a good many stocks during. MR. E. CARBINES' APIARY, VENN, CARUINHAM, CORNWALL. myself from Pettigrew's directions. By some means my original stock in skep died in the winter that followed, but I succeeded in bringing the three driven lots safely through, and they did well the following summer. From those three lots practically the whole of the bees and bee-produce 1 now possess has been obtained. "In the second year of my bee-keeping I first learned of the B. B. J., then of Mr. Cow
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