. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. Dec. 19, 1907.] THE BRITISH BEE JOURNAL. 505 other hobbies, but bee-keeping is to my mind the most interesting of all. In making a start I began badly by pur- chasing a stock of bees in a wooden box about a foot square, and six weeks later had a swarm from it, which I hived in another square box. The following year I had three swarms, all of which were hived in skeps. But that sort of bee- keeping was not to my mind, so I tried to drive the bees out of the old boxes into better hives, but failed in the at- tempt, and in disgust put the who
. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. Dec. 19, 1907.] THE BRITISH BEE JOURNAL. 505 other hobbies, but bee-keeping is to my mind the most interesting of all. In making a start I began badly by pur- chasing a stock of bees in a wooden box about a foot square, and six weeks later had a swarm from it, which I hived in another square box. The following year I had three swarms, all of which were hived in skeps. But that sort of bee- keeping was not to my mind, so I tried to drive the bees out of the old boxes into better hives, but failed in the at- tempt, and in disgust put the whole over the sulphur-pit, and did away with the lot. A memorable experience I had in driving bees appears in vol. xxiv. of the , for September 10, 1896, headed ' Bee-driving Extraordinary.' This by ^he way; but to go back to 1873. In that tice the knowledge gained from reading the , since 1884, and started with frame-hives and modern methods. I have taken your paper since the date named above, and would not like to be without it on any account, seeing that it has been so great a help to me in my bee-work, as also has the 'Guide Book.' 1 now have thirteen hives on my allotment, and two stocks in frame-hives placed on a leaden roof, 9 ft. by 3 ft., outside my top-room window. These latter I find very handy for cleaning up wet combs after extract- ing. I have a card put up in my front window which reads ' Honey for Sale from our own Bees,' and by means of this I am able to dispose of my surplus at lOd. and Is. per pound. When packing the bees up for winter I put on wooden grat-. MK. WILLIAM AMES'S APIARY, ST. GKORGE's, NORWICH, NORFOLK. year I got the idea of going to London for a time, so, leaving the bees I then had with my father, I started off, got work, and took a house near the Old Kent Road. Hereabouts there was plenty of bee- forage, including, among other things, two rows of lime-trees. I therefore got my father to send me a couple of stocks in skeps, which duly
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