. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. Jan 1, 1903.] THE BRITISH BEE JOURNAL. home-made. A harvest such as he reports in so bad a year as last is a result well worth working for, and we congratulate our friend on his success. For the rest, he says :— " It is now six years since I commenced bee-keeping, when I bought a stock in an old bar-frame hive. I afterwards purchased several stocks in skeps, all of which swarmed later on, and in this way my apiary rapidly increased in numbers. I then started hive- making, but, like a good • many beginners made 'the mistake of adopting
. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. Jan 1, 1903.] THE BRITISH BEE JOURNAL. home-made. A harvest such as he reports in so bad a year as last is a result well worth working for, and we congratulate our friend on his success. For the rest, he says :— " It is now six years since I commenced bee-keeping, when I bought a stock in an old bar-frame hive. I afterwards purchased several stocks in skeps, all of which swarmed later on, and in this way my apiary rapidly increased in numbers. I then started hive- making, but, like a good • many beginners made 'the mistake of adopting large hives of the ' Combination ' type. At last, however, I chanced to read in the B. B. J. an article on ' The " W. B. C' Hive : How to Make It,' and was so phased with the description and this style of hive that I made six of them at " The shed on the right is the honey house and where I keep the apiary appliances. A portion of my ' Doolittle' solar wax extractor is seen above the roof of one hive. This useful appliance works splendidly in hot weather. I made it from instructions in Eoot's ' of Bee Culture.' I am at the present time trying the different races of bees. The Carniolans have done well here this season. With regard to prevention of swarming, I have found the non-swarming chamber below brood-nests quite effective in practice. I have also a splendid stock of pure Italians, the progeny of a queen which I purchased from Mr. F. Sladen. But for comb-honey producing I have never had better capped and filled sections than I ob-. MR. H. swift's apiary, CHURCHDOWN, CHELTENHAM, GLOUCESTERSHIRE. once, and then gradually altered or, in fact, remade the large hives first mentioned to this pattern. I manage to make about a dozen or 80 every winter, and I now have sixty colonies in my apiary. The figure seen in photo holding a frame of bees is myself, the other figure shown is my friend, Mr. R. Merrett, who is also a bee-keeper and often lends me a helping
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