. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. Aug. 10, 1899.] THE BRITISH BEE JOURNAL. 313 HOMES OP THE HONEY BEE. THE APIARIES OF OUR READERS. Our bee-garden picture this week shows a poit'on of the apiary of Mr. GeorJe Smith, a small holder of farming land in the rural dis- trict of Princes Risboro', bordering on the hamlet of B'edlow, and the historical " Chilterns," the scene of many a fierce fight in the days of Cromwell. We understand that Mr. Smith has for many years taken a lively interest in bees and bee-keeping in a small way ; but lately, in view of the depressed
. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. Aug. 10, 1899.] THE BRITISH BEE JOURNAL. 313 HOMES OP THE HONEY BEE. THE APIARIES OF OUR READERS. Our bee-garden picture this week shows a poit'on of the apiary of Mr. GeorJe Smith, a small holder of farming land in the rural dis- trict of Princes Risboro', bordering on the hamlet of B'edlow, and the historical " Chilterns," the scene of many a fierce fight in the days of Cromwell. We understand that Mr. Smith has for many years taken a lively interest in bees and bee-keeping in a small way ; but lately, in view of the depressed condition of agriculture, has developed his hobby to a considerable extent, realising the fact that for the propor- clover fields by which we are surrounded his C3ased to yield for the year. Since my younger days many of the old bee-hands have, I regret to say, died out, and with them the skeps of bees without which few cottage holdings were considered complete. For my own part, how- ever, I think that in au industry of this kind there i^ great scope for development. At the beginning of this year my apiary numbered about a score of stocks, but I have siace added a number of the latest type of hives to my small farm. It is my intention to work chiefly for comb-honey in sections, as I find this more in demand than extracted honey, I have found no great difficulty in getting the bees to work in section?, but I make a point of keep-. MR. GEORGE SMITHS APIARY, PRINCES RISBORO, BLEDLOW; BUCKS. tionate outlay and time involved bees are more remunerative than the ordinary farming of to day. Kegarding the actual experiences of bee-keeping our friend says :—" My earliest recollection of bee-keeping carries me back a good many years, and to the days when few cottages in this district were without their accompanying number of straw skeps and rtd clay hoods in the adjoining piece of garden ground, and I well know that the owners found the annual yield of honey to be very often consid
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