British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser . o aregardeners by profession, and are alsoenthusiastic and successful bee-keeping experiences, written atour request, will be found both use-ful and interesting to Jourxal sajs : — I commenced bee keeping in 1895through the influence of Mr. Ed. Stevens,of Latimer, Bucks, from whom I boughtmv first swarm and hive. He also lent me of fruit and lime trees, sainfoin, whiteclover, and charlock. I have never brokenany records in big takes of honey, mylargest lot from one hive being 110 lb. ;but, up to the present, I have alwaysma
British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser . o aregardeners by profession, and are alsoenthusiastic and successful bee-keeping experiences, written atour request, will be found both use-ful and interesting to Jourxal sajs : — I commenced bee keeping in 1895through the influence of Mr. Ed. Stevens,of Latimer, Bucks, from whom I boughtmv first swarm and hive. He also lent me of fruit and lime trees, sainfoin, whiteclover, and charlock. I have never brokenany records in big takes of honey, mylargest lot from one hive being 110 lb. ;but, up to the present, I have alwaysmanaged to sell all the honey I can getat 8d. to lOd. a lb. retail for sections, and8d. to 9d. for extracted honey. I make apoint of telling my customers that honeyis meant to be eaten as a food, and notstored away as a remedy for colds, year I sold 540 lb. (nearly the wholeof my harvest), taken from ten hives—spring count ; I also increased my apiary,and have now seventeen hives. My onlyexperience with foul brood occurred a few. MR. HERBERT SIMMONDS APIARY CHIPPERFIELD, KINGS LANGLEY, HERTS. a copy of your Guide Book, and helpedme with advice in many ways. This swarmgave me twenty-one good sections thatyear, and I remember how proud I felr,because I put them on the hives and tookthem off when full without any a number of years my apiary increasedvery slcwly, chiefly because of the hivesbeing heated in my very small settling dov/n in Chipperficld in myoccupation as gardener, I (through thekindness of a neighbouring farmer) placedmy hives in a corner of a meadow quiteclose to my house. It is protected fromcold winds by tall hedges, and there isabundant forage for the bees in the shape years back. I then jjurchased seven hivesin the winter when it was impossible toexamine them, which I freely admit was arisky thing to do, and when spring cameI found one hive badly affected with foulbrood, and four others slightly so. I im-mediately destroyed
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