. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. N: 1913.] THE BRITISH BEE JOURNAL. 475 feeding a stock by moans of an outside feeder. A sliort account of his bee- keeping experiences is given in tlic letter Avliich appears beloAv : â 'â It is! with pleasure that in re- sponse to Your reque-it 1 send you a photograph recently tiiken, which Jias not been published, of my home apiary at Celigny, as you were good enough to say you woidd like to liave such a view when you visited me here the other day. I also enclose a photograph of our feeder, which is applied outside the hive. "I comm
. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. N: 1913.] THE BRITISH BEE JOURNAL. 475 feeding a stock by moans of an outside feeder. A sliort account of his bee- keeping experiences is given in tlic letter Avliich appears beloAv : â 'â It is! with pleasure that in re- sponse to Your reque-it 1 send you a photograph recently tiiken, which Jias not been published, of my home apiary at Celigny, as you were good enough to say you woidd like to liave such a view when you visited me here the other day. I also enclose a photograph of our feeder, which is applied outside the hive. "I commenced bee-keeioing in 1891, at the School of Agriculture in Lausanne, under the instruction of M. Ed. Bertrand. In 1892, my mother-in-law made me a pre- .sent of her four Dadant hives, and it was hitherto the principal bee jiasturage, and for it have been substituted green crops, which ]n-oduce greater and more certain returns. These crops are mown as they commence flowering, and are thus useless for bees. I employ hives of the â Dadant ' type witli eleven frames, and have also about twenty modified â Dadants ' with twelve frames. The pi-incipal harvest, which here generally commences about the 15th of May, suffered from the bad A\eather we had this year, so that the bees were hardly able to visit the flowers previous to the mowers having commenced to cut the crops before the encl of the month. From this moment the activity of the bees diminished, for thej' lost time in wandering over the fields. M. IMKHHK OnjKH, S AI'IARV AT CELIGNY. witli these that I made a start. Un- fortunately, not long after this, foul brood broke out among my bees, and tliree of the colonies had to be destroyed. I then bought a swarm, and from that time took more and more pleasure in keeping and .studying bees. I have possessed either alon(> or with associates as many as 250 colonies, distributed in several apiaries. At the present time I have only 120 in two apiaries. This is without count
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