. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. •512 THE BRITISH BEE [Dec 28, 19H. not do, preferring to go down the rain- water pipe, the bottom end of which ran into the ground, so that I could not get them out. Meanwhile I started the work of clearing out the combs, which I had to do almost with one hand through a small aperture, as I wanted to avoid rain getting on to the ceiling below. The combs were almost black at the entrance, and varied in depth from six to twenty inches, as they receded in the rear; the whitest and newest ranged at the back. I took out about ^cwt. of
. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. •512 THE BRITISH BEE [Dec 28, 19H. not do, preferring to go down the rain- water pipe, the bottom end of which ran into the ground, so that I could not get them out. Meanwhile I started the work of clearing out the combs, which I had to do almost with one hand through a small aperture, as I wanted to avoid rain getting on to the ceiling below. The combs were almost black at the entrance, and varied in depth from six to twenty inches, as they receded in the rear; the whitest and newest ranged at the back. I took out about ^cwt. of good honey this time, but as darkness came on the work had to be abandoned for the night, and the bees were left in their new iron home. In the interim I had time to consider what means to adopt to secure the bees, which were a grand lot, so I took with me some carbolic acid and a cloth to stop African correspondent which, to my mind, was liable to give the British bee-keeper a somewhat wrong impression of bee-keeping in South Africa. Thanks are due to the Bee-keepers' Associations for the change which has been made in the last few years. Every year men and women enter tlie ranks of modern bee-keepers and the old boxes, barrels, &c., so commonly used in the days gone by, are rapidly being re- placed by movable comb hives. It is now a little over six years since I got my first colony; well do I remember going under cover of the darkness and bringing home a stock in an old rotten box on a wheelbarrow, which treatment the bees very much resented. I trans- ferred them to a hive, but, owing, to want of knowledge on my part, the bees evidently became disgusted and left m&. VriAKV OF MR. L. H.\RDWICK, BEXrLVILLE, S. AFRICA. them going down the pipe again. On reaching the spot I found they had come up out of the pipe, and had started a fresh new nest farther up the inside, and out of ]'each. So fii"st I stojiped the pipe with the carbolic cloth, and proceeded wit
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