. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. Nov. 3, 1904.] THE BRITISH BEE JOUHNAL. 435 HOMES OF THE HONEY-BEE, THE APIARIES OF OUR READERS. Mr. Hatliff is so well known by name as a successful exhibitor that we are glad to have a photo of his apiary, showing himself and one who is evidently a bee- man's helpmate in the person of his good wife. His notes need no addition from us:ââ " If you ask me when I began bee-keep- ing I shall have to confess ' I don't know.' My father was an enthusiastic, bee-keeper of the old skeppist school, and my earliest recollection is a, long line
. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. Nov. 3, 1904.] THE BRITISH BEE JOUHNAL. 435 HOMES OF THE HONEY-BEE, THE APIARIES OF OUR READERS. Mr. Hatliff is so well known by name as a successful exhibitor that we are glad to have a photo of his apiary, showing himself and one who is evidently a bee- man's helpmate in the person of his good wife. His notes need no addition from us:ââ " If you ask me when I began bee-keep- ing I shall have to confess ' I don't know.' My father was an enthusiastic, bee-keeper of the old skeppist school, and my earliest recollection is a, long line of skeps down the sanlen-walk. There wei'e sometimes up.' The queen was a good one, and soon my hive was full of bees, but not a bit of honey did I get. At last I got a friend to come and look at the liive, and he dis- covered that the body-box of my hive had been fitted with drone-cell foundation! 1 killed thousands of fine drones and gave proper foundation, when all began to go on well, and, I am glad to say, my progress has not be ni stopped since. " I still have a number of skeps, but they hang up in ray outhouse, for I do not think them proper hoaiies for bees at all, and still less ' proper " for the bee keeper. " The figui'es seen in the pictui'e are of myself and wife. In following my ordinary. MR. W. HATLIFF S APIARY, THORESWAT, CAISTOR, LINGS. over a hundred of them, and I remember how we had to bang the pots and pans at swarming time! " On one occasion, when three or four swarms joined together of themselves, he put the whole lot into a cask and let them use the bunghole for an entrance. As I grew older I had to help to hive swarms and drive bees, and I fancy the ' inocula- tion ' I got in those early days has lasted till now, with just an occasional refresher. " But it was only a few years ago that I began tO' use movable-comb hives for the first time, nor waiS my earliest experience with modem methods a very encouraging one, for, as I kne
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