. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. May 18, 1905.] THE BRITISH BEE JOURNAL. 195 sale in the next village. This I purchased and got with it a dealer's catalogue in which I saw the ' Guide Book' advertised, This I immediately procured, and read it through with interest several times over. " My bees swarmed in the following spring, and the swarm were duly hived in a skep, but this job was not quite so easily done as said in the book owing to my being very nervous at the time about getting stung. I had filled the frame-hive with full sheets of foundation, and in the evening
. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. May 18, 1905.] THE BRITISH BEE JOURNAL. 195 sale in the next village. This I purchased and got with it a dealer's catalogue in which I saw the ' Guide Book' advertised, This I immediately procured, and read it through with interest several times over. " My bees swarmed in the following spring, and the swarm were duly hived in a skep, but this job was not quite so easily done as said in the book owing to my being very nervous at the time about getting stung. I had filled the frame-hive with full sheets of foundation, and in the evening, spreading a sheet on the ground, I placed the hive in position—duly propped up in front—and with much fear as to results, threw out the swarm on to the sheet with a jerk, and immediately scam- better job of it than with my first attempt. " My largest take of honey was in 1903, when I secured just one ton of surplus in about equal proportions of comb, and extracted from forty stocks. I have started several others in the craft, all of whom are now progressive bee-keepers, and own from six to twelve stocks, all of which are well managed and kept in good order. With regard to my own manage- ment, I have followed the advice regularly given in your pages and by leading con- tributors thereto ; I am also fortunate in never having had foul brood in or near my apiary. " Only myself is seen in photo, but my. MR. HERBERT PATEY'S APIARY, CHILLINGTON, KINGSBRIDGE, DEVON. pered off to the workshop, from whence I saw the heap of bees quietly spread them- selves out, without taking wing, and begin to run steadily in the prepared hive like regiments of soldiers marching. I thus realised my foolishness in running away, for the bees did not seem to resent the rough treatment in the least. I got a rack of sections from this swarm that season. In the autumn I increased my stock by driving two lots of condemned bees—with- out having seen it done by any one before —and successfull
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