. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. March 24, 1910.] THE BRITISH BEE JOURNAL. 119 Doolittle's maxim that queens reared be- fore clover-flow should be pinched.— J. N. Kidd, Stoeksfield-on-Tyne. HOMES OF THE HONEY-BEE. THE APIARIES OF OUR READERS. The thriving appearance of Mr. Slote's apiary, which we illustrate this week, shows that he is a capable and intelligent bee-keeper who can make the best of a honey district where big "takes" are not the rule. He doas not give us much in- formation as to how he manages his twenty-eight stocks, but that he is able successful
. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. March 24, 1910.] THE BRITISH BEE JOURNAL. 119 Doolittle's maxim that queens reared be- fore clover-flow should be pinched.— J. N. Kidd, Stoeksfield-on-Tyne. HOMES OF THE HONEY-BEE. THE APIARIES OF OUR READERS. The thriving appearance of Mr. Slote's apiary, which we illustrate this week, shows that he is a capable and intelligent bee-keeper who can make the best of a honey district where big "takes" are not the rule. He doas not give us much in- formation as to how he manages his twenty-eight stocks, but that he is able successfully to do so is proved even by the few details he gives. Mr. Slote says: — " I started keeping bees in the spring of the bees out of the old box when making my first start, as this is the only experi- ence of the kind I have had. " I have been a reader of the , for about two years now, and should not like to give it up. I have no interesting ex- perience to relate, so I close by wishing all bee-keepers a good 'take' in the year ; Queries and Replies. [4000.] Keeping Bees in a House.—I wish to start keeping bees, but the only place where I can do so is in a vacant bed- room at the top of the house. I have no garden, but almost all the houses round me have, some quite large, and there are. APIARY OF MR. L. SLOTE, ST. MARY S, RAMSEY, HUNTS. 1901 by buying an old box-hive, being in- duced to commence by seeing the stocks belonging to a neighbour who kept them .successfully. I have now twenty-eight hives of bees. Very few swarms came off last season, only three having issued in my apiary. One of these was the largest I have ever seen ; it filled one of the large- size skeps full to overflowing. I also found two queens in a second swarm last year. "The average 'take' here is about 40 lb. per hive, so it is not a first-class honey district. My largest return from one hive was a swarm and three racks of sections. I think the honey is chiefly from must
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