. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. Nov. 9, 1905.] THE BBITISH BEE JOUBNAL. 445 report of his own bee experiences this season. He says: — " The above photograph (taken Septem- ber, 1904, the day on which the hives were brought back from the heather) shows an ancient and a modern bee-keeper, and their methods, side by side. It is the apiary of Mr. David Scott, Kincardine on Forth, situated in the extreme west of Fifeshire, and on the eastern fringe of that great fertile ' bean-growing plain,' the Carse of Stirling and Falkirk. Bees have been kept by the family of the old
. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. Nov. 9, 1905.] THE BBITISH BEE JOUBNAL. 445 report of his own bee experiences this season. He says: — " The above photograph (taken Septem- ber, 1904, the day on which the hives were brought back from the heather) shows an ancient and a modern bee-keeper, and their methods, side by side. It is the apiary of Mr. David Scott, Kincardine on Forth, situated in the extreme west of Fifeshire, and on the eastern fringe of that great fertile ' bean-growing plain,' the Carse of Stirling and Falkirk. Bees have been kept by the family of the old man for many generations. His memory can carry him back three-score years and ten, and in all that time, bees have stood at the ' back such a success that the remaining skeps, with the exception of one (which the old man insisted should be left for him), were- transferred to frame-hives this summer with very gratifying results. " The season of 1905 has proved the best for a number, of years. We had the advan- tage of an early and' abundant supply of honey-yielding, tree blbssom, after which came the bean bloom. Then about the middle of August, we transported our hives to the moors, the heather being earlier in bloom than usual this year. Owing, how- ever, to adverse weather during August and part of September being very wet, the results were by no means up to expecta-. ME. DAVID SCOTT S APIARV, KINCARDIXE-OX-FORTH, FIFESHIRE. (Bee-keeping, Ancient and Modern.) door.' I was induced to take this photo, being struck with the similarity between it and the one shown in the ' Guide Book' of the old-fashioned apiary in Kent. " The old man seen on the left is the owner of the bees, but advancing years have compelled him to hand over the man- agement to his nephew, the younger man on the right. He, being a joiner by trade, and becoming possessed of a ' Guide Book,' speedily saw that the day of the straw skep was fast passing away, and, after a great amount of argumen
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