. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. July 12, 1900.] THE BRITISH BEE JOURNAL. 275 our stock of ekeps was only four. We com- menced the season of 1899 with nine frame- hives and two skeps, and finished with ten of the former and thirteen skeps. " We had last year an unusual experience— at least with us—which may possess some interest, as follows :—On May 30, 1899, a strong stock in skep threw off a swarm. On July 11 this swarm threw a virgin swarm, and on the 25th of same month a second virgin swarm. We thus had three swarms from one stock, all of which have done well. Th
. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. July 12, 1900.] THE BRITISH BEE JOURNAL. 275 our stock of ekeps was only four. We com- menced the season of 1899 with nine frame- hives and two skeps, and finished with ten of the former and thirteen skeps. " We had last year an unusual experience— at least with us—which may possess some interest, as follows :—On May 30, 1899, a strong stock in skep threw off a swarm. On July 11 this swarm threw a virgin swarm, and on the 25th of same month a second virgin swarm. We thus had three swarms from one stock, all of which have done well. The second virgin swarm was hived on nine frames and taken to the moors, then supered with ten shallow frames. When returned home all these frames were full up. We had la?t swarms in all, but the first two united and were hired on ten frames. These are now at work in sections doing well. These skeps have thrown two swarms each, but one of the second swarms flew away. None of our frame- hives have swarmed, and the strong ones are storing well in supers. Two of them have each twenty shallow frames on now filling well. Other six hives have each a rack of twenty- one sections on, and the bees were filling them rapidly at first, but the bad weather of last fortnight has delayed the bees from finishing them off. We have also four skeps supered with other skeps divided by queen-excluder. We have had two hives containing two queens each, one a frame-hive and one a skep. In. MESSRS. HENRY AND CHAS. DAWSON's APIARY, ECCLESFIELD, BHKl-i iKi^D. season eleven natural swarms and made three artificial ones, our harvest of honey being 10 stone of extracted honey and about 15 stone of heather honey. The enclosed photo is a view of our apiary as it stoid at the beginning of 1899. " We took to the moors last year seven frame-hives and twelve straw skeps. One frame-hive filled twenty shallow frames at the moors and twenty at home, or forty in all. The straw skeps weighed from 3 to 5
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