. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. Aug. 11, 1921. TH^ BRITISH BEE JOURNAL. 371 Spanish Cork Hives. [10496] While rambling in the hills in Southern Spain, some ten miles from Gibraltar, I came across an apiary of which I enclose a photograph which may interest your readers. My British companion spoke Spanish fluently, and while we were watching the bees the proprietor came up and kindly gave us information about them. Unfortunately my companion is not an apiarist, and my Spanish being limited, it was difficult to converse, but the following gleanings may interest your reader
. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. Aug. 11, 1921. TH^ BRITISH BEE JOURNAL. 371 Spanish Cork Hives. [10496] While rambling in the hills in Southern Spain, some ten miles from Gibraltar, I came across an apiary of which I enclose a photograph which may interest your readers. My British companion spoke Spanish fluently, and while we were watching the bees the proprietor came up and kindly gave us information about them. Unfortunately my companion is not an apiarist, and my Spanish being limited, it was difficult to converse, but the following gleanings may interest your readers:— The hives are simply the bark stripped from a neighbouring cork tree, about 4 ft. long by 1 ft. inside diameter, held roughly together by a piece of wire near the top, and another near the bottom. The bees were flying in and out along the seam, the edges There was a profusion of wild flowers, many familiar, and as cattle were grazing in the low ground half-a-mile or so away, I presume there would be white clover. Brambles were in flower. I also remarked scabius, heath, broom, borage, cistus, thyme, lavender, charlock, etc., in the vicinity. The stem of one of the trees in the back- ground shows where the cork has been stripped from it.—A. H. Meysey Thompson. Is It Playing the Game ? [10497] I am a three-year-old novice, still enthusiastic in spite of many stings and grievous winter losses. Last year from some half-dozen hives I harvested 150 lbs. of honey, and 125 lbs. in the previous season. This spring I began with five stocks, one of which has failed to do anything but occupy three or four combs, refusing either to in-. Spanish Apiary of Cork Hives. of which were not trimmed at all. A disc of cork plugged the bottom. The top is covered roughly by the strip of cork lying on the top. The chief honey harvest is about mid-June, when a knife is run round the inside from above, and about 60 lbs. of honey taken from the whole of them. A smaller second crop is obtained in Se
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