. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. January 28, 1886.] THE BRITISH BEE JOURNAL. 39 worked out. In the autumn, if all has gone -well, he "will have taken some honey, learnt the management of a bar- hive, and have five or six worked-out bars of combs beyond what his first stock requires to winter on. If he makes two more hives and divides these combs between them, making up each to six bars, with foundation, in the end of September, any neighbour with skeps will be putting them down, and woidd give him or sell him the bees for Is. a hive if he could either drive or get th
. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. January 28, 1886.] THE BRITISH BEE JOURNAL. 39 worked out. In the autumn, if all has gone -well, he "will have taken some honey, learnt the management of a bar- hive, and have five or six worked-out bars of combs beyond what his first stock requires to winter on. If he makes two more hives and divides these combs between them, making up each to six bars, with foundation, in the end of September, any neighbour with skeps will be putting them down, and woidd give him or sell him the bees for Is. a hive if he could either drive or get them driven. Putting two or three of such lots into each of his new hives, and feeding for two or three weeks, he would have three good stocks at a small cost. I took seven such lots, and put them on two bars of comb, two and three of foundation in the middle of August, and have five good stocks from them. If the first hive was a stock—not a swarm—its owner will most likely have taken 50 lbs. of honey, or have a swarm and some honey; either way it will cover the first outlay thus : £ i. (7. 50 lbs. honey at Id 19 2 Or swarm 0 15 0 25 lbs. honey 0 14 7 £2 18 9 . Outlay. £ s. d. Three boxes at Is. 6r/ 0 4 6 Extra wood 0 3 0 Nails 0 10 1J dozen bars in piece at 2s. 6<Z 0 3 3 l| lbs. foundation at 2s. 6d 0 3 3 Two feeders at Is. 6d 0 3 0 40 lbs. sugar at 2W 0 8 4 Material for quilts 0 16 £1 7 10 Stock on Hand. £ ». d. Three hives value 4s. 6d 0 13 6 Three stocks and combs at 15s 2 5 0 Twofeedere 0 3 0 £3 16 I have priced the honey low, as though some may sell for 9d. some will only fetch Cxi.—M. E. E., Shropshire. RIPENESS OF ItOXEY. [63.] The quick recurrence of numbers in the new series will, I fear, find those who have many some things else to think of besides bee-keeping sadly in the lurch. But it may not be too late to express the reflection that after all that has been written there is still much to be learned by the fraternity. I am not surprised at the stateme
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