. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. July 8, 1897.] THE BRITISH BEE JOURNAL. 265 the few hives shown in the photo., we may say they are all made by our bee-keeper himself, as were the supers and section-racks, though only an amateur joiner. Placed close under the hill, seen rising in the background of the picture, with the honey and work-room partly cut off on the right, the whole shows just the neatness and tritnness which bespeaks the true bee-man. Mr. Faragher furnishes us with a few particulars regarding himself as follows :— " I began to keep bees in the year 1883,
. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. July 8, 1897.] THE BRITISH BEE JOURNAL. 265 the few hives shown in the photo., we may say they are all made by our bee-keeper himself, as were the supers and section-racks, though only an amateur joiner. Placed close under the hill, seen rising in the background of the picture, with the honey and work-room partly cut off on the right, the whole shows just the neatness and tritnness which bespeaks the true bee-man. Mr. Faragher furnishes us with a few particulars regarding himself as follows :— " I began to keep bees in the year 1883, and have been fairly successful with them. With- out keeping any accurate record I have been perfectly satisfied with the general results. I have secured surplus up to 100 lb. off one hive rasps, apple trees, are grown in plenty. There are also plane trees about, and the tields are at times yellow with " charlock," or wild rape. I think that every market gardener ought to keep a few hi^^es if only for the sake of his frait trees. My gooseberries never failed to have a fioe crop uuless it was damaged by the frost.' He further goes on to say : —" When I began to keep bees, I bought a skep and sent for Cowan's "Guide Book," and from the instruc- tions in it made two frame hives. When the bees in skep swarmed, I put the first in one frame hive ; and after the second swarm had issued I cut the skep in two, cut out the combs, and tied them in the frames with tapes. MR. THOS. FARRAGHER's APIARY, DOUGLAS, ISLE OF MAN. in one season. This is considered very good for the Isle of Man. I generally kept about eight or ten stocks, and worked the best one for sections ; ruaning the others for extracted honey. I never sold any other honey save that gathered by my own bees. In this way I have sold ^'16 worth in a season, to say nothing of a liberal use of honey at home and for giving away to workers and friends. I considered that was a very nice little thing towards
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