British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser . hat he mavbe long spared to make converts, whowill, like the others, prove good and use-ful recruits to the craft. He says : — As requested, I will try and give a fewdetails of my bee-keeping, about whichmuch might be written, as my early experi-ence harks back to the seventies. My in- alas! my first lot of bees soon died fromexposure, through constantly opening thehive. I determined^ however, to startagain, and in the following spring pur-chased a strong skep, and transferred themto the frame hive, from which I obtainedmy first honey, and from that
British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser . hat he mavbe long spared to make converts, whowill, like the others, prove good and use-ful recruits to the craft. He says : — As requested, I will try and give a fewdetails of my bee-keeping, about whichmuch might be written, as my early experi-ence harks back to the seventies. My in- alas! my first lot of bees soon died fromexposure, through constantly opening thehive. I determined^ however, to startagain, and in the following spring pur-chased a strong skep, and transferred themto the frame hive, from which I obtainedmy first honey, and from that time mystock increased rapidly till I had got halfa dozen hives, which was as many as mysmall garden would accommodate. Up tothis time I knew nothing of bee associa-tions or of a bee journal, so I advertisedbees for sale in a Notts paper, and Mr. Pugh, Hon. Sec. to the atthat time answered my advertisement, notto buy bees, but to invite me to become amember of the association. EventuallyMr. Pugh paid me a visit, and gave me. MK. R. MACICINDERS APIARY, NEWARK, NOTTINGHAMSHIRE. terest in the craft was first thoroughlyawakened at a village flower , when alecture and demonstration with bees wasgiven by Mr. Tom Sells. I was so aston-ished by the way the bees were driven andhandled by the lecturer that I determinedto go home and try to do likewise. An oldskeppist in the village where I then lived(only seven miles from my present home)promised me his bees instead of resortingto the sulphur pit, and within a month ofseeing it done, I successfully drove my firstekep. Meantime I had purchased a framehive, into which I put the bees, thus start-ing my new-found hobby, and my fond-ness for it is just as strong with me to-day.(I might here say that the old man men-tioned above also took to the bar-framehives in preference to his ekeps.) But, some useful instruction that I have neverforgotten. He also induced me to join theassociation, and for many years I haveacted as di
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