. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. Dec. 14, 1905.] THE BRITISH BEE JOURNAL. 495 appreciated in many families than a dish of new honey, fragrant from the hive, and we trust gardeners will read the following "notes" and profit thereby. " In reply to your request for a few ' Notes' concerning my bee-experiences, I would first say my activity began in boy- hood, having more than once helped in placing our home skeps over the sul- phur-pit ; but that item of bee-work is now a thing of the past with me. The apiary seen in photo was started five years ago, and I hop
. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. Dec. 14, 1905.] THE BRITISH BEE JOURNAL. 495 appreciated in many families than a dish of new honey, fragrant from the hive, and we trust gardeners will read the following "notes" and profit thereby. " In reply to your request for a few ' Notes' concerning my bee-experiences, I would first say my activity began in boy- hood, having more than once helped in placing our home skeps over the sul- phur-pit ; but that item of bee-work is now a thing of the past with me. The apiary seen in photo was started five years ago, and I hope to successfully move the hives in the coming new year to a new location, it being my intention to go into bee-keeping on a larger scale. Most of the hives were made by myself in the moved from the hives, and I regard bee- keeping more as part of my ' work,' my hobbies being incubators and poultry-rear- ing. In my work as a gardener the bees are helpmates, for they assist very much in fertilisation. I have no difficulty in the early spring if we have a few bright warm days, in getting blooms in the fruit-houses fertilised by the bees, and this is better than going over the blossom with a camel- hair brush, which every gardener knows has to be done with early fruit bloom. " All this may read well to one who con- templates starting an outdoor occupation, but there is another side which I oftetn' think about when I read the letters of your correspondents asking such questions. MR. G. C. BURGESS' APIARY, HOCKERILL, BISHOPS STORTFORD, HERTS. winter evenings, all being made to take the Standard frame, but the holding capa- city varies from nine to twelve frames in each hive. The larger hives are worked for extracted honey, the small ones for sections only. The hives shown do not include all my stocks, some being located in another fruit-garden, but tbe one seen has secured for me the first prize from our county Association for the "Best-kept Apiary'' each year since the pr
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