. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. -June 2, 1904.] THE BRITISH BEE JOURNAL. 215 the modest account of himself contained in the following " notes," written at our I'equest, needs no addition. Ha says : — " I first became interested in bees nine- teen years ago, through a gardener friend whom I saw sulphuring a skep to get the honey. Some little time afterwards my friend gave me a skep of bees, and from that day I have never been without them. I heard of frame-hives soon after I started bee-keeping, but could find no one to give me any information at that time,
. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. -June 2, 1904.] THE BRITISH BEE JOURNAL. 215 the modest account of himself contained in the following " notes," written at our I'equest, needs no addition. Ha says : — " I first became interested in bees nine- teen years ago, through a gardener friend whom I saw sulphuring a skep to get the honey. Some little time afterwards my friend gave me a skep of bees, and from that day I have never been without them. I heard of frame-hives soon after I started bee-keeping, but could find no one to give me any information at that time, until a gentleman, seeing me working with bees, kindly gave me a book on bee-keeping the title of which I forget, but it supplied me with all the information i*equired, and in putting my knowledge into j^ractice, I purchasetl a fi-ame-hive from Messrs. years afterwards I could average about Is. per lb. for my honey-crop. My best 'take' from a single hive was 112 lb., my average in that same year being 86 lb. per hive. My apiary was located near Edinburgh at that time. As an exhibitor my first success was gained at the Highland Society's Show in Edinbui-gh in 1893, where I got second and third prizes for 2 lb. sections. I was also fairly successful at local honey shows. Six years ago I re- moved to Dumfriesshire, and since coming here have had one or two good honey har- vests, but owing to the prevalence of foul brood in the district my stocks have never been in really good order for the last three years. They are, however, I am glad to say, very much stronger and healthier this. MR. HENRY MARR's APIARY, NEWTONAIRDS, DUMFRIES, N B. Abbott Brothers, as a pattern, and ever since that time I have made my own hives. I can well remember my first swarm which (although I had the assistance of a friend) took three hours to hive, and we thought we were very smart. I suffered dreadfully from stings for some years, and often thought I must give the bees up ; but the hobby was so fa
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