. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. June 8, 1899.] THE BRITISH BEE JOURNAL. 223 kindly wrote for my guidance some 'Notes for an intended Apiarian.' He also hoped I should soon meet Mr. Cowan, and said, if I followed carefully all the advice he could give me, I should be sure to have success. " I studied bee-books during that winter, and in the spring of 77 was ready to put my first swarm in a frame-hive. Holding the view that bee-keeping ought to ba profitable, I kept a strict account of income and expenses, but two or three years passed before I saw bees manipulated as
. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. June 8, 1899.] THE BRITISH BEE JOURNAL. 223 kindly wrote for my guidance some 'Notes for an intended Apiarian.' He also hoped I should soon meet Mr. Cowan, and said, if I followed carefully all the advice he could give me, I should be sure to have success. " I studied bee-books during that winter, and in the spring of 77 was ready to put my first swarm in a frame-hive. Holding the view that bee-keeping ought to ba profitable, I kept a strict account of income and expenses, but two or three years passed before I saw bees manipulated as ; Just at that time the first village flower show at Much Hadham was arranged for, and Miss Gay ton's activity in the cause of bee-keep- ships I have made and kindnesses received from all bee-keepers confirmed my opinion that bee- keeping was not only a profitable pursuit, but a very pleasant one. Prices were certainly better in those days than now, for I had a ready sale for all the honey I could get at 1 s. 6d. per lb. for comb and Is. for extracted; but I only sold the best. The district here is entirely an agricultural one—no orchards and no heather— so our harvest is of short duration, not much surplus being brought in after quite the beginning of July. i%."In 1879 I introduced my first Ligurian queens, and was delighted with the gentleness and activity of the L-gurian bee. I have not. MI?S M L, GATTON S APIARY, MUCH HADHAM, HERTS. log was the means of including a honey show as part of the exhibition, together with a visit of the bee tent of the These adjuncts were a great success, ns was tD by the Rev. H. R. Peel, who, along with Mr. F. Cheshire and Mr. Huckle, attended the show. Subsequent years saw Miss Gay ton a regular exhibititor of honey at show?, and her successes in prize-winning must be numbered by the hundred. In further *' Notes'' we read : " After so much of instruction and help from these gentlemen, and later fr
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