. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. July 24, 19l;i] THE BRITISH BEE JOUENAL. offered, I would keep hees. This opportunity did not occur until 1 removetl from town to Witliam, in 1908, and dur- ing this interval I came in contact with Mr. G. R. Alder, the well-known secretary of the Essex From him I learned more of the working of the hive, and on several occasions I heard him lecture and saw him demonstrate. Early in 19()9, after considerable searching, I found some bees for sale close to home, and bought five stocks in very decrepit hives. The home-comin
. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. July 24, 19l;i] THE BRITISH BEE JOUENAL. offered, I would keep hees. This opportunity did not occur until 1 removetl from town to Witliam, in 1908, and dur- ing this interval I came in contact with Mr. G. R. Alder, the well-known secretary of the Essex From him I learned more of the working of the hive, and on several occasions I heard him lecture and saw him demonstrate. Early in 19()9, after considerable searching, I found some bees for sale close to home, and bought five stocks in very decrepit hives. The home-coming of these hives is perhaps worth relating. We removed them in the evening of one fine April day, and when nearly home the floor-board of one, which was in a particularly rotten condition, gave way, and ten o'clock at night found my wife and self on hands and knees in the middle of the road, capturing the in- surprise (as he said) 1 stcjjjx'd in and took a handful. In the first year the five hives previ- ously mentioned more than paid for them- selves, and I found that there wasi a very good market for honey. 1910 was an exceptionally wet .season, and there was no increase and no surplus, but I bought four more stocks. In Janimry of 1911 I moved to Little Coggeshall, and having bought another nine stocks from the outgoing tenant, I started in real earnest, and was fortunate enough to obtain the custom of a very large West End dairy, and to this firm alone I sold some £20 worth of honey. Little Coggeshall honey became so well liked that in January, 1912, I sold the same firm nearly £40 Avorth in one lot. In the spring, however, trouble came in the shape of foul brood, which T discovered. MR. F. E. LENNOX BROWN S APIARY, LITTLE COGGESHALL, ESSEX. habitants and restoring the liive to some sort of order. Our first thought was to join the Essex , which we did, and it is to this fact that we attribute much of our success, for we found many friends always willing to help and i
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