. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. May 25, 1905.] THE BRITISH BEE JOURNAL. 205 HOMES OF THE HONEY BEE. THE APIARIES OF OTTE READERS. Since the following notes were written descriptive of our friend Mr. Hood's out- apiary at Pickering, he sends a line to say- he has disposed of the apiary shown, and made arrangements for removal of his resi- dence to Whitby, Yorks, where he will be in a better position for the bee and honey- trade on a larger scale than before. All this only tends to show that he has not yet reached the end of his success as a bee-man, and we wish good luck
. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. May 25, 1905.] THE BRITISH BEE JOURNAL. 205 HOMES OF THE HONEY BEE. THE APIARIES OF OTTE READERS. Since the following notes were written descriptive of our friend Mr. Hood's out- apiary at Pickering, he sends a line to say- he has disposed of the apiary shown, and made arrangements for removal of his resi- dence to Whitby, Yorks, where he will be in a better position for the bee and honey- trade on a larger scale than before. All this only tends to show that he has not yet reached the end of his success as a bee-man, and we wish good luck may attend his enterprise. He says: " In sending a few notes as requested, I cannot begin as many do by telling how their first start in bee-keeping was made, popular with many bee-keepers about here. I myself, however, use the standard frame only, and as I send so many colonies all over the country, I still keep a few straw skeps for producing swarms. We took all condemned bees in those days by fumi- gating with fungus or puff-ball. Onoe I began working the frame-hive I began to take the , and from it soon learned the ' better way,' for I started bee-driving in saving condemned lots, then began queen-raising and all the rest of it. It soon became known that I would remove bees from condemned skeps with no bother to the owner or flavour of sulphur to> the honey. But the great difficulty for the skejjpist bee-keepers here was that the honey could not be sold. This difficulty was soon. ME. THOS. HOOD'S OUT-APIARY, PICKERING, YORKSHIRE. for I am unable to remember my earliest experience. I believe, however, that the first investment my parents made on coming, to Pickering, newly married, in 1844, was in the purchase of some hives of bees. I need hardly say that they were straw ones. All my experiences, therefore, up to 1884 were with skep hives. When a Mr. Wheater took up his residence in our town, and brought with him several wooden hives stocked with bees, he and I
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