. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. Feb. 10, 1910.] THE BRITISH BEE JOURNAL. 53 Editorial, Notices, &c. PROMINENT BEE-KEEPERS. MR. WM. HERROD, It will have been seen that at the last meeting of the Council of the Mr. Wm. Herrod was appointed secre- tary, to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Mr. E. H. Young, and we who was a joiner and builder, and'there he continued until 1894, when he went to the late Mr. J. H. Howard, of Holme, near Peterborough. Here he learned all the work connected with the appliance trade, from grooving and splitting sec
. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. Feb. 10, 1910.] THE BRITISH BEE JOURNAL. 53 Editorial, Notices, &c. PROMINENT BEE-KEEPERS. MR. WM. HERROD, It will have been seen that at the last meeting of the Council of the Mr. Wm. Herrod was appointed secre- tary, to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Mr. E. H. Young, and we who was a joiner and builder, and'there he continued until 1894, when he went to the late Mr. J. H. Howard, of Holme, near Peterborough. Here he learned all the work connected with the appliance trade, from grooving and splitting sec- tions to making foundation. During this time he had the management of Mr. Howard's apiary of over a hundred colonies, and he thus gained a thorough in- sight into bee-keeping in all its branches. As a youth he was always fond of living. MB. WM. HERROD, , SECRETARY, BRITISH BEE-KEEPERS ASSOCIATION. have now the pleasure of presenting his portrait to our readers. The new secretary was born in 1873 at Sutton-on-Trent. He was educated at the Board School, and was intended for the teaching profession, which for a short time he followed, but circumstances in- tervened which prevented him from con- tinuing to teach. He then became a garden boy, and, being ambitious, and anxious to get on in the world, he worked for any farmer from whom he could earn a few shillings. Later, he was employed in the workshop belonging to his father, creatures, and as near the school there was an old-fashioned skep apiary, it was with envy that he used to watch the taking of swarms and suffocation of the bees by sulphuring at the end of the sea- son. He had a longing desire to keep bees, and when about fifteen years of age got hold of Nutt's "Management of Bees," and commenced to make one of Nutt's collateral hives. He had completed the central box when his old friend and tutor Mr. R. Mackender—who now lives at Newark—came into the shop. Seeing him at work, he asked what he was doing,
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