. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. Nov. 28, 1907.] THE BRITISH BEE JOURNAL. 475 boxes -made a hive, then ordered a swarm ; but when the bees arrived my first trouble began. There was no one about to help me hive the bees, a job I had never seen done. However, not liking to show the white feather, I got a pair of old leather gloves, tacked up a bee-veil, and com- menced operations. I had been told to throw the bees out in front of the hive and watch carefully to see the queen run in, &c, but in my excitement I saw a big bee fly away, which at once I judged to be the quee
. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. Nov. 28, 1907.] THE BRITISH BEE JOURNAL. 475 boxes -made a hive, then ordered a swarm ; but when the bees arrived my first trouble began. There was no one about to help me hive the bees, a job I had never seen done. However, not liking to show the white feather, I got a pair of old leather gloves, tacked up a bee-veil, and com- menced operations. I had been told to throw the bees out in front of the hive and watch carefully to see the queen run in, &c, but in my excitement I saw a big bee fly away, which at once I judged to be the queen, and was sure the bees would follow and be lost. But they marched into the hive all right, so I had evidently been mistaken. I soon acquired confidence and gave up wearing gloves, but still use a veil when removing honey, for a sting about my eye turns it black, and all natives. I do' not care about the foreign races unless it be to take to the heather; I also think they are great at robbing. On one occasion two friends and myself took a couple of hives each to the heather, one of mine being a foreign lot. The season turned out wet and cold, and my foreign stock simply appropriated the honey belonging to the lot! At any rate, it was the only one that had any honey at all in store when the hives were brought home from the moors. But it is not all profit going to the heather. A good many years ago the bee-keepers of the district made a combined effort to protect the bees at the ' fells.' They built a wooden house and engaged a watcher to live there for six weeks in the autumn, each bee-keeper paying a certain sum per hive to cover. MR. JAS. FINLAY'S APIARY, HENSINGHAM, CUMBERLAND. shopkeepers with a black eye give cus- tomers a chance for making humorous remarks against the evils of fisticuffs. "I got a few sections the first year, and, being encouraged to go on, worked in my spare time the following winter making more hives. I make them 20 in. long and 17^ in. wide inside
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