. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. July 29, 1909.] THE BRITISH BEE JOURNAL. 297 rarely attend any but the annual meet- ing in March and the Conversazione in October. Bee-keepers are not wealthy, and there would hardly be a sufficient number willing to pay the cost of a club in London.âEd.] THE LATE MR. LUKE WREN. It is with deep regret that we have to record the death of Mr. Luke Wren, a veteran bee-keeper, which took place on July 5, after only a few hours' illness. Mr. Wren was head of the firm of L. Wren and Son, saddlers and harness makers, of Lowestoft, and resided at
. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. July 29, 1909.] THE BRITISH BEE JOURNAL. 297 rarely attend any but the annual meet- ing in March and the Conversazione in October. Bee-keepers are not wealthy, and there would hardly be a sufficient number willing to pay the cost of a club in London.âEd.] THE LATE MR. LUKE WREN. It is with deep regret that we have to record the death of Mr. Luke Wren, a veteran bee-keeper, which took place on July 5, after only a few hours' illness. Mr. Wren was head of the firm of L. Wren and Son, saddlers and harness makers, of Lowestoft, and resided at Somerleyton, five and a half miles away, where he had his apiary. Although his father kept bees when he â was a boy, he was first active- ly attracted towards them in May, 1882. When walking through the garden of tbe late Jeremiah Coleman, he came across the bee-hives, , some half- dozen stocks in skeps. Mr. Cole- man objected to the cruel sul- phur-pit as a finish to the bees' labours in the summer, and so â as frame - hives and modern methods were THE LATE unknown there- abouts at the time â the bees had been in the garden for many years, but no honey had ever been taken from them. After some thought on the matter, Mr. Wren, though not knowing much about bees, volunteered to drive the bees and transfer them to frame-hives. His brother, who was a bee-keeper, sent him a pattern hive and section-rack to work from, and several were made, and in the end the bees were transferred to them without a single hitch, with the result that the first year after the owner got his first ^ cwt. of honey from the bees. This exploit got noised abroad, and so many skeppists sought Mr. Wren's help in adopting the "new system" that he eventually had to put down a gas-engine and machinery at his premises in Lowes- toft for the manufacture of bee-ap- pliances, which has grown into a large business, at the present time electric power being substituted for gas in driv- ing the machine
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