. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. May 31, 1900.] THE BRITISH BEE JOURNAL. 215 the other for my sister. During our first summer's experience the skeps each swarmed twice ; all four swarms being duly hived, making up our bee-possessions to six stocks. The two lightest were in the autumn consigned to the sulpbur-pit according to custom, leaving two stocks each to the respective owners. One morning in late autumn we were surprised to find my sister's two hives had disappeared ! and, doubtless, our two would have gone too, but for the fact that my brother and myself had cut hol
. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. May 31, 1900.] THE BRITISH BEE JOURNAL. 215 the other for my sister. During our first summer's experience the skeps each swarmed twice ; all four swarms being duly hived, making up our bee-possessions to six stocks. The two lightest were in the autumn consigned to the sulpbur-pit according to custom, leaving two stocks each to the respective owners. One morning in late autumn we were surprised to find my sister's two hives had disappeared ! and, doubtless, our two would have gone too, but for the fact that my brother and myself had cut holes in the tops of our skeps to put a small straw super above. Anyway, the thieves had apparently tried to appropriate them, but the holes in the top allowed the bees to escape, and I suppose the thieves found it prudent to ' escape ' also. By reading what books I could get hold of, such as Payne's ' Manual of Bee- that heather honey will not leave the combs unless pressed out. I used at that time to make all my own hives, whether straw skeps, Ste war ton's, bar-frames or glass, but have not now much time for hive-building. I work mainly for sections but can never manage to get any very early ones, my principal source of honey being clover, limes, and heather; my bees working on the latter until quite late in September if the weather is right. After trying most varieties of bees, I only keep natives. My ' take ' of honey last year was about 600 sections and a small quantity of extracted. "I first began taking the , when the late Mr. 0. N. Abbott was the editor, and the late Rev. H. R. Peel was Secretary of^he Association ; I also helped in the formation of our Hants , being one of the MB. w. T, Joyce's apiart, farnborough, hants. Keeping,' Pettigrew's ' Handy Book of Bees,' &c., I got an insight into the better plan of working, and, being in the wood line, I soon began to make my own hives ; the first being one with fixed combs and a span glass roo
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