. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. Sketch of Skep Looted by Germans, Aug. 13, 1914. (now Sergt.) A. G. Atwell and A Veteran French Bee-keeper. we passed through now had been looted by the Germans; shops broken open, wine cellars looted, cattle and poultry killed and eaten, their entrails being thrown about the ground. It was on the 12th of September that I came across the first looted apiary. Of course, I expect I had passed several such before, but 'being hidden behind the hedges, etc., it was not always easy to see them in passing. However, the one I mention was
. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. Sketch of Skep Looted by Germans, Aug. 13, 1914. (now Sergt.) A. G. Atwell and A Veteran French Bee-keeper. we passed through now had been looted by the Germans; shops broken open, wine cellars looted, cattle and poultry killed and eaten, their entrails being thrown about the ground. It was on the 12th of September that I came across the first looted apiary. Of course, I expect I had passed several such before, but 'being hidden behind the hedges, etc., it was not always easy to see them in passing. However, the one I mention was standing right in the open, about six yards from the road, with no hedge or fence of any apiary I had seen the day before; it wa& of wicker work, covered with mud and cow dung, and I made a rough sketch of it at the time, a drawing from which I enclose herewith. {To he continued.) A DORSET YARN. What a voracious monster is a big toad in the apiary? How many bees it would eat if left long enough to gorge its fill I. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original London
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