. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. Communications to the Editor to be addressed ' Stranoeways' Printing Office, Tower Street, Cambridge Circus, [No. 348. Vol. XVII.] FEBRUARY 21, 1889. [Published Weekly.] (fifoxtonal, jtotkes, fa. APIARIES ON WHEELS. The subject of having apiaries on wheels was introduced by our friend Mr. Wm. M'Nally on page 65. We are pleased to be able to give an illustration of an apiary on this principle. It be-. longs to Herr Gustav Siegle, in Feuerbach near Stuttgard, and has been at work for some time. The drawing is from a photograph, and repre
. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. Communications to the Editor to be addressed ' Stranoeways' Printing Office, Tower Street, Cambridge Circus, [No. 348. Vol. XVII.] FEBRUARY 21, 1889. [Published Weekly.] (fifoxtonal, jtotkes, fa. APIARIES ON WHEELS. The subject of having apiaries on wheels was introduced by our friend Mr. Wm. M'Nally on page 65. We are pleased to be able to give an illustration of an apiary on this principle. It be-. longs to Herr Gustav Siegle, in Feuerbach near Stuttgard, and has been at work for some time. The drawing is from a photograph, and represents the carriage in which the hives are fixed, and in whicli the bees remain all the year round. The owner carries on what is called' Wander-Bienenzucht,' or peripatetic bee-keeping, for he moves his apiary from one place to another to follow the flowering of the honey crops. When he has arrived at the proper destination the horses are taken out, the pole is removed, the entrances are opened, and the apiary left to take care of itself. In the centre will be seen a passage, about three feet wide, giving ample room for manipulating the two rows of hives on each side. It must be borne in mind that our English hives are very much larger, and con- sequently will be very much heavier than the German hives, and in building such a waggon allowance must be made for this extra weight. It would certainly be useful for taking bees to the heather, as Mr. W. M'Nally remarks, but whether it can be made a paying concern remains to be proved. FADS. Fail, a hobby, crotchet, trifling pursuit. To have a fad is to lay oneself open, to some extent, to be classed amongst those who somewhat un- reasonably pursue phantoms ; at least, this is a common view in most men's ej'es of the faddist. Without being absolutely what our American friends term ' a crank,' the faddist is, on his own particular whim, certainly considered just as cranky as he more or less vigo- rously pushes his pet notion towards the
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