. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. Jan. 3, 1907.] THE BEITISH BEE JOURNAL. known to older readers of the Bee Journal by his nom-de-plume of ' 'Xtractor.' I know he won't mind it— in fact, he suggested1 that I ought to manage to get the ' Hut' in the picture, and Siay ' this, is where some of the earlier articles headed "In the Hut" were written.' But to begin my notes with my first start, I would stay : — Many of the bee-keepers whose apiaries have appeared in ' Homes of the Honey- Bee' commenced their hobby with straw skeps. Mine was rather an original start, and
. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. Jan. 3, 1907.] THE BEITISH BEE JOURNAL. known to older readers of the Bee Journal by his nom-de-plume of ' 'Xtractor.' I know he won't mind it— in fact, he suggested1 that I ought to manage to get the ' Hut' in the picture, and Siay ' this, is where some of the earlier articles headed "In the Hut" were written.' But to begin my notes with my first start, I would stay : — Many of the bee-keepers whose apiaries have appeared in ' Homes of the Honey- Bee' commenced their hobby with straw skeps. Mine was rather an original start, and that was* with humble-bees. How long ago? Well, when referring to cut- tings taken from the Children's Column of the Leeds Mercury Weekly Supple- ment, to which I used to contribute when " The little girl seen in the picture is my eldest of four, eight years of age, and from what she already knows about the bees bids, fair to become one of the craft shortly; in fact, she now wants a hive 'all her very own.' I think I shall have to let her start on her own account. " I am sorry I could not include the ' Hut' in the photo. I use it now to store my appliances in, graft queen-celLs in, &c.; but in its early days many of the articles1 from the pen of ' 'Xtraetor' were written therein. I regret to tell your readers that my father, after having several slight, strokes of paralysis, has now retired from business, but still takes an, interest in bees, and occasionally gets down to my MR. DARCY R. GBIMSHAW'S APIARY, CROSSGATES, NEAR LEEDS. a schoolboy, I find it was in the summer of 1885, and my first hive was an old octagonal clock-case, a description of which appeared in the , May 12, 1887 (page 207). I remember I used to watch these humble-bees so often that I wore the grass off the lawn where they stood, and my father, who was a garden enthusiast at the time, suggested their removal; but when telling one of his com- mercial friends in London abou
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