. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. Feb. 15, 1900. THE BRITISH BEE JOURNAL. 65 foal-brood in my best ' W. B. C hive, and Mr. Sawyer stayed the whole evening so as to make sure it was properly dealt with by re- moving the bees from the diseased combs. 1 hived them myself after they had fasted forty- eight hours, and had to feed them, of courae, afterwards. From this same hive I took seventy-six lbs, of honey in section the follow- ing year. ''Regarding my personal experiences of bee-keeping which you ask for :—I am a beginner, and I may say had any one told me five years ago
. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. Feb. 15, 1900. THE BRITISH BEE JOURNAL. 65 foal-brood in my best ' W. B. C hive, and Mr. Sawyer stayed the whole evening so as to make sure it was properly dealt with by re- moving the bees from the diseased combs. 1 hived them myself after they had fasted forty- eight hours, and had to feed them, of courae, afterwards. From this same hive I took seventy-six lbs, of honey in section the follow- ing year. ''Regarding my personal experiences of bee-keeping which you ask for :—I am a beginner, and I may say had any one told me five years ago I should be able to handle bees I should have thought it a stretch of imagina- tion. Mr. Sawyer, the ' expert' already men- tioned, comes to examine my bees early in the spring. He is very keen after foul-brood, and (he entered it in his book as ' well-managed ') advised me to have mora shade. I follow the instructions in ' Cowan's Guide Book,' and always look forward to my Bee Journal and Record. I should very much like to have an expert's certificate myself, but I cannot as yet handle bees without gloves, so I should not pass. Perhaps some day I may be brave enough, but as bees will sting my hands I feel nervous, and as 1 am obliged to do all I can myself, and gloves give me more nerve, I do not think I am very wrong in wearing them. I took off a great deal of the honey myself, but I could not manage it all, so had to get Mr. Sawyer's help. He left me a little to take off even then as some sections were not quite filled. During. MTSS E. J. fisher's APIARY, HEATH END, LOUDWATER, BUCKS. I feel if he passes my colonies as ' healthy ' they will do. I managed the work myself last summer, and as I did not want to increase my stocks too quickly, having only a limited space, I therefore watched for swarms, and when they came ofi' I opened the hive, cutting out queen-cells and returning the swarms after sun-down, I had ten swarms altogether, for the bees left the hives several times
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