. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. June 16, 1898.] THE BRITISH BEE JOURNAL. 235 HOMES OF THE HONEY BEE. THE APIARIES OF OUR READERS, Our bee-garden picture this week is repro- duced from a large photo of Mr. Arthur A. Cole's fine apiary at Oaksey, Wilts. It was not very easy to show the place to full advan- tage on a tone-block so small as our limited space allows, but by omitting a few hives a fair representation is given of the original. Mr. Oole, who is an old reader of the J., and though still comparatively young, has kept bees for over twenty years. In fact, we ma
. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. June 16, 1898.] THE BRITISH BEE JOURNAL. 235 HOMES OF THE HONEY BEE. THE APIARIES OF OUR READERS, Our bee-garden picture this week is repro- duced from a large photo of Mr. Arthur A. Cole's fine apiary at Oaksey, Wilts. It was not very easy to show the place to full advan- tage on a tone-block so small as our limited space allows, but by omitting a few hives a fair representation is given of the original. Mr. Oole, who is an old reader of the J., and though still comparatively young, has kept bees for over twenty years. In fact, we may here say that it was to him that our the spring of 1876 I made up my mind to go in for bee-keeping on modern methods, not so much for profit as to study the habits of the bee, and,having a good microscope, I have found them especially interesting. I bought two of Neighbour's well-known cottage hives, with windows at sides, and bell-glasses for surplus chambers. One of these was sent me stocked with a swarm of English bees with an Italian queen ; in the other one I hived an English s warm, and although it is twenty-two years ago I have not changed my stock since, but can still see traces of the Italian blood in the hives, many of the young bees showing yellow [ MR. ARTHUR A. COLES APIARY, OAKSEJ, WILTS. reference was made in " Useful Hints" on page 371 of of September 23 last year. We there gave a few particular of his bee- keeping and the picture of his bee-garden then promised now appears. In response to our usual request for a few of bee experiences to go along with the view here shown, Mr. Cole writes to say : " I first began to take an interest in bees many years ago, when a younger brother of mine had a swarm given to him, and I assisted in the management of them. That, however, was in the darker days of bee-keeping, when bees were usually condemned to the sulphur-pit at ' honey taking' time each autumn. But in For ten years I only kept a few s
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