. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. 26 THE BEITISH BEE JOURNAL. [Jan. 18, 1912. died, of starvation. I am enclosing you a piece of comb, and should like your opinion of same.—C. W., Plympton. [The comb is affected with foul brood of long standing.—Ed.] HOMES OF THE HONEY BEE. APIARIES OF OUR READERS. The apiary we illustrate this week will have a particular interest for many readers, as it is located in the Isle of Wight, and has not escaped the visitation of that "bee scourge," which has caused such havoc in the craft for the past few years. It is pleasing to hear
. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. 26 THE BEITISH BEE JOURNAL. [Jan. 18, 1912. died, of starvation. I am enclosing you a piece of comb, and should like your opinion of same.—C. W., Plympton. [The comb is affected with foul brood of long standing.—Ed.] HOMES OF THE HONEY BEE. APIARIES OF OUR READERS. The apiary we illustrate this week will have a particular interest for many readers, as it is located in the Isle of Wight, and has not escaped the visitation of that "bee scourge," which has caused such havoc in the craft for the past few years. It is pleasing to hear that the seven stocks remaining are " healthy and doina; ; Mr. Parker's brief notes honey from skeps, and my being allowed to light the sulphur fuse. My first real bee-work, however, commenced when I was about nine years old, when spending a holiday on my grandfather's farm in the Isle of Wight. One Sunday morning during service time a stock swarmed, settling on a branch of the thorn hedge. I hived these myself without assistance,, in fact no one knew of it ixntil I had secured them, and in the evening I placed them in position on the stand. That was for me the begin- ning of the bee fever which has never died out. I now make all my own hives and fittings, using nothing but the best red deal. I am never more happy than when amongst the bees; it is a pleasurable hobby and a profitable one MR. T. Parker's apiary, west hill, ryde, isle of wight. give a good idea of the trouble he has had, though he treats the subject in a spirit of optimism, which one cannot but admire He says : —The photograph shows a ]iart only of my small apiary. For some ten years past it has been my ambition to increase the number of my stocks to thirty. Several times my hopes in this direction have been raised very high, but the dreaded "Isle of Wight" disease has ap- peared, and I have lost all. I am still very hopeful of some day reaching that number, for the seven sto
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