. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. July 20, 1899.] THE BRITISH BEE JOURNAL. 283 stances. My husband (a builder), was super- intending the removal and packing up a farmer's furniture to a neighbouring village, but after packing was completed and juat before starting, the farmer discovered that a skep of bees had been left behind in the garden. In the end the bees did not go, and 1 became their owner. From that skep and other sources I now possess thirty-nine stocks, all of the old English black variety and nearly all the hives are made to take the standard size frame. The wh
. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. July 20, 1899.] THE BRITISH BEE JOURNAL. 283 stances. My husband (a builder), was super- intending the removal and packing up a farmer's furniture to a neighbouring village, but after packing was completed and juat before starting, the farmer discovered that a skep of bees had been left behind in the garden. In the end the bees did not go, and 1 became their owner. From that skep and other sources I now possess thirty-nine stocks, all of the old English black variety and nearly all the hives are made to take the standard size frame. The whole of them were made at home by my sons. In the early part of my experience I alighted upon a work on bee- keeping by " Nutt''; and from that volume I crathered my first idea of working the bar formation of an Association for Huntingdon- shire, but I attended the firit meeting of the Hunts , with Messrs. T. B. Blow and our friend, 0. N. White, the energetic hon. sec. I have been a member ever since, "As an exhibitor I have been fairly success- ful, winning many money prize-i and bronze meda;l, but never was fortunate enough to get the highly-coveted silver medal, which I should very much like to win. I have only just missed it on several occasion?. I may, perhaps, try again ; but, when one considers that I have reached my sixty-third year, it makes me feel as if I do not want much running about now after bee-shoivs. I do most of my own bee-work, for my husband. MRS. ALLPRESS'S APIAILY, CIl. UGUTON, HUNTINGDON. frame-hive. The long hive near myself in the picture contains two stocks on Nutt's collateral principle. Though out of date now, I have always retained this hive and find visitors take great interest in it, as the bees can be seen at work through the glass by undoing a door. Of course, exposing the bees to the light is not quite the proper thing to do, but the hive is kept more for the interest it arouses than for anything else. I well remember a ve
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