. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. J ^±^t. iRITISH Communications to the Editor to be addressed ' Stbanobwatb' Pbiniino Office, Tower Street, Cambridge Circus, [No. 310. Vol. XVI.] MAY 81, 1888. [Published Weekly.] (ftfoitorial, itotkes, tit. LANGSTROTH FUND. Donations sent to us, or to Mr. Huckle, Kings Lang-ley, Herts, ou behalf of the above Fund, will be thankfully acknowledged in the , and for- warded to America. The following is the list of con- tributions received up to date of present issue :— £ s. d. Cowan r, 0 0 Abbott Brothers 3 3 0 Geo. Neighbour
. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. J ^±^t. iRITISH Communications to the Editor to be addressed ' Stbanobwatb' Pbiniino Office, Tower Street, Cambridge Circus, [No. 310. Vol. XVI.] MAY 81, 1888. [Published Weekly.] (ftfoitorial, itotkes, tit. LANGSTROTH FUND. Donations sent to us, or to Mr. Huckle, Kings Lang-ley, Herts, ou behalf of the above Fund, will be thankfully acknowledged in the , and for- warded to America. The following is the list of con- tributions received up to date of present issue :— £ s. d. Cowan r, 0 0 Abbott Brothers 3 3 0 Geo. Neighbour and Sons 2 10 0 Rev. Geo. Raynor 1 1 0 W. Raitt 1 0 0 W. Broughton fan- 1 0 0 II. Howard 0 10 6 'X-Traclor' 0 10 0 ' Amateur Expert' 0 10 0 Geo. Henderson 0 10 0 John Hall, Wigton 0 6 0 W, M. Graham, Lowfield Apiary .... 0 8 0 PRACTICAL WORK IN THE APIARY. Catching Swarms. If swarms wore always to settle near the ground, or within easy reach of the bee-keeper, hiving: them would be easy enough, but sometimes they select places on trees too high to reach in the ordinary way, or even con- veniently with a ladder. When hives are kept in lofts or in places above the level of the ground, swarms usually settle ou high trees. We at one time kept nearly 40 hives in lofts above our stables, and during the whole time they were there every swarm settled high and out of reach, and we had not one that we could hive without a ladder or some special contrivance^for the purpose. We bave sometimes been able to get a swarm away together with the branch of the tree on which it alighted if this was not too large. The branch is cut off without jarring by means of an instrument called a ' secateur,' and which we use for tree-pruning. This instrument is found in every gardener's hands on the Continent, and is gradually coming into use in this country. A branch, j or even 1 inch in thickness, can be easily cut through without the slightest jarring, therefore it is very much better for the purpose
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