. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. Sept. 29, 1904.] THE BEITTSH BEE JOURNAL. 385 HOMES OF THE HONEY BEE. THE APIARIES OF OUR READERS. " Bee-keeping foi- small farmers" is; a subject full of interest to agriculturists, and in illustrating below the apiary of a , reader who is himself a farmer's son regularly occupied in farm work, we com- mend the following notes. Mr. Hurst says : " My interest in bee-keeping took a prac- tical form some ten years agO' through read- ing in the Farm Field and Fireside articles on the subjei'.t. I commenced with a hive know
. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. Sept. 29, 1904.] THE BEITTSH BEE JOURNAL. 385 HOMES OF THE HONEY BEE. THE APIARIES OF OUR READERS. " Bee-keeping foi- small farmers" is; a subject full of interest to agriculturists, and in illustrating below the apiary of a , reader who is himself a farmer's son regularly occupied in farm work, we com- mend the following notes. Mr. Hurst says : " My interest in bee-keeping took a prac- tical form some ten years agO' through read- ing in the Farm Field and Fireside articles on the subjei'.t. I commenced with a hive known as the ' Ivo Cottager,' a fixed comb- hivo, with bars in which foundation can be inserted. The brood-box contained nine narrow bars and the supers seven wider ones. Of course this type of hive does not bees. In some seasons I get very good yields of clover honey of fine quality, but of late years white clover has not been grown so plentifully as formei-ly, probably owing to the fact that the land is being heavily manured, and as white clover is sown only in conjunction with red clover and rye-grasses, and the latter plants gene-, rally make such headway that the white clover has little chance to come to perfec- tion. " Although the main source of honey is from clover, there are various other ]-»lants which keep the bees going, both before and after the real hai'vest. " I genei-ally take off supers at the end of July, and then set about the work of. MP. T. HURSt'ij APIARY, DOWNUOLLAND, ORMSKIRK, LANCASHIRE. possess the advantages of a movable-frame hive, but I still use the supers on frame- hives if I happen to run short of sui-plus boxes, and when working ^for extracted honey they answer as well. As will be seen from the photo sent, I use various pattems of hives, but all ar© made to take the standard frame. The results, however, according to my experience, de- pend, not on the hive used, but on the management of the bee-keeper himself, combined, of cours
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