. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. March -20, 1900.] THE BRITISH BEE JOURNAL. 125 advice about their bees. For some years past I have answered queries on'bee-keeping in the ff'eekly Times and Echo, and this brings me correspondence from all parts of England, Ireland, and Scotland, and sometimes abroad. I have also sent hives and sections, &c., to Italy, 80 you will see that at times I am what you might call a bit busy. " I have been a bee-keeper now for sixteen years and possess the third-class experts' cer- tificate of the My start in the craft arose thro
. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. March -20, 1900.] THE BRITISH BEE JOURNAL. 125 advice about their bees. For some years past I have answered queries on'bee-keeping in the ff'eekly Times and Echo, and this brings me correspondence from all parts of England, Ireland, and Scotland, and sometimes abroad. I have also sent hives and sections, &c., to Italy, 80 you will see that at times I am what you might call a bit busy. " I have been a bee-keeper now for sixteen years and possess the third-class experts' cer- tificate of the My start in the craft arose through seeing a bee demonstration at an agricultural show. My liking for bees dates very early in life, but the thoughts of killing them to get the honey was very dis- tasteful, and when I saw that there was a better way of bee-keeping than the old one, I allowing plenty of ventilation the bees seldom swarm, and give a good surplus of fine honey. The plan of placing a few stocks out in the country in this way should, I think, be carried out much more frequently than it is by bee-keepers generally. " I do not get such large returns from single hives as are sometimes reported in your pages, but I have in one season taken 111 sections from one hive. ]\Iy average, taking one year with another, is about 45 lb. per hive. Regarding the quality of our Hampshiie honey, I consider it second to none. In proof of this, at the last Dairy Show two Hants men were placed first and second, while I myself got tifch for light extracted honey in a class of over sixty MR n. ROWELL'S apiary, hook, WINCHFIELD, IIAN'TS. at once began to take in the , and I think most of my success in bee-keeping is due to its teachingj. I lost no time in becoming the owner of a stock in a skep and two swarms together with a new frame-hive, but since then I have made all my own hives and a good many for sale. Hook is not one of the best bee district?, there being no sainfoin grown, nor is there much w
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