. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. Jan. 21, 1904.] THE BRITISH BEE JOURNAL. 25 twenty skeps, and it was very nearly as a skeppist that I began myself. Wishing, however, to read up the subject, before making a start, I fortunately heard of tlif '(iiiifle Book,' and after reading and re-)'i"ading it with increased interest, I made a beginning in May, 1901, with a ' guinea outfit' bought from, a well-known manufacturer, and a swarm from my skeppist friend. I obtained no honey the fii-st summer, but became so deeply in- terested in the pursuit that in the winter following
. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. Jan. 21, 1904.] THE BRITISH BEE JOURNAL. 25 twenty skeps, and it was very nearly as a skeppist that I began myself. Wishing, however, to read up the subject, before making a start, I fortunately heard of tlif '(iiiifle Book,' and after reading and re-)'i"ading it with increased interest, I made a beginning in May, 1901, with a ' guinea outfit' bought from, a well-known manufacturer, and a swarm from my skeppist friend. I obtained no honey the fii-st summer, but became so deeply in- terested in the pursuit that in the winter following I made a couple of hives, each to hold twelve frames. Then in the spring of 1902 I bought for a sovereign, from my cottager bee-man, two stocks in skeps for transferring to my new hives. This, under the ever prompt advice given in the , was successfully carried out nucleus box alongside. After cutting out remaining queen-cells, the parent hive was filled lip with frames fitted with full sheets of foundation, and the swarm retuiiit'd in ilie evening, when wni'k in the supers was resumed right mei-rily. I have thus raised young queens, and united the nuclei to the stocks from which they emanated. It is here worthy of remark that only those hives swarmed which were being worked for sections. As regards hives, I am strongly in favour of one holding twelve or fifteen frames for this district, with the outer wall flush with top of the frames, those dimen- sions giving plenty of room for comfortable manipulations. With respect to the size of the fi'ames, I tried a stock with frames 9q by 13J>, but, although this hive ap-. MR. R J. TALBOT's apiary, ROMFORD, ESSEX. by placing each skep over ten frames with full sheets of foundation. All went well and the bees worked down nicely into lowest hive, and made it their brood nest. The skejis were removed in August, re- sulting in my getting 36 lb. of surplus from the two. My first stock, through , was badly an
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