British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser . n the craft, but makes his own hives,manages his bees on up-to-date lines, and,notwithstanding natural drawbacks, is inevery way a successful bee-keeper, as thefollowing notes, written at our request,will show. He says : — When I was a very small boy my grand-father kept about twenty stocks of bees inskeps, which always proved a source of some trouble (being only an amateur car-penter-), was successful in making fivehives, to which I added two of type, bought in the flat fromone of your advertisers in Gloucester. Itransferred my stocks from
British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser . n the craft, but makes his own hives,manages his bees on up-to-date lines, and,notwithstanding natural drawbacks, is inevery way a successful bee-keeper, as thefollowing notes, written at our request,will show. He says : — When I was a very small boy my grand-father kept about twenty stocks of bees inskeps, which always proved a source of some trouble (being only an amateur car-penter-), was successful in making fivehives, to which I added two of type, bought in the flat fromone of your advertisers in Gloucester. Itransferred my stocks from skeps to frame-hives by setting the former on top of body-box of the latter, the bees then transferringthemselves. In 1902 I found myself thejwssessor of seven stocks, all in excellentcondition, and during that season I took60 lb. of good honey from one hive, andfrom that time I have gone on makingwhat progress I could. My practice is to allow bees to gatherhoney in August and September for theirown winter stores, which they are able to. MR. GEO. E. GELLETLEYs APIARY, HATIIERTON, CANNOCK, STAFFORDSHIRE. great interest to me, but on his death in1890 my father (who did not care for bees)sold them off. I was sorry to be thus de-prived of this interesting hobby, anddetermined to keep some bees of my own,but was not able to do this till 1900, whenI bought two skeps from a Mr. Uewsbui-y,who had an apiary of about eighteen skepsabout a mile away from my home. Soonafter this I visited a friend at WheatonAston, who is a beekeeper, and there firstsaw modern framehives, the appearanceand convenience of which pleased me somuch that I made up my mind to makesuch hives for my own bees. I carefullymeasured the size, etc., then procured somestrong boxes from a local shop, and, after do from the heather growing abundantlyin this district. I find a ready sale for myhoney in the town and shops in the neigh-bourhood, and usually get Is. per lb. making my first start in bee-keepingI
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