. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. Nov. 8, 1917. THE BRITISH BEE JOURNAL. 349. ADVICE AND HELP NEEDED. We shall be pleased to hear of any bee- keeper near Conway who would give a little advice and help to a beginner in beekeeping. A DORSET YARN. At Warehani market, on Thursday, I saw some fine sections of very white- capped honey, and asked the man that brought them where they came from. He said " Corfe "—that is, Corfe Castle, not Corfe Mullen, where the Violet Farm is situated. He said bees had done well in his neighbourhood, and, what was to me the best news, w
. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. Nov. 8, 1917. THE BRITISH BEE JOURNAL. 349. ADVICE AND HELP NEEDED. We shall be pleased to hear of any bee- keeper near Conway who would give a little advice and help to a beginner in beekeeping. A DORSET YARN. At Warehani market, on Thursday, I saw some fine sections of very white- capped honey, and asked the man that brought them where they came from. He said " Corfe "—that is, Corfe Castle, not Corfe Mullen, where the Violet Farm is situated. He said bees had done well in his neighbourhood, and, what was to me the best news, were free of disease. Many jars of honey I noticed were labelled " Heather "; some of it was sent by farmers and some by the gardeners on the big estates. There must be a lot of bee-keepers still in the Isle of Purbeck, as this neighbourhood is called. This is a delightful part for the lover of Nature, beside the ruins of the old castle, which even Cromwell's guns could not entirely level; there are the romantic "chines" leading to the sea, the haunts of the smugglers in olden days at Chapnan Pool, and the rocky sea coast at Kim- meridge. Indeed, the sea coast on to Lul- worth Cove is wild and grand, where the Sea Thrift (Armeria) grows wild, and huge clumps of the blue Sea Holly, making fine colour to the eye. I once was in camp with the old Volunteers near this, and steep were the hills, one had to sling the rifle and use both hands as well as feet to climb iip them. All the boundaries are walled with stone, not hedgerows, marking the fields as most rural districts round here are. When this terrible war is over I hope to be able to visit these bee- keepers, for I feel they must have many things of interest to show me in this romantic neighbourhood. To-day the one cry of all in authority is " ; Old Carlyle said there were only two sorts of people, mostly fools; we have have been living in a fool's paradise. It has taken three years of
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