. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. Nov. 19, 1914.] THE BRITISH BEE JOURNAL. 41T. The Editors do not hold themselves responsible for the opinions expressed by correspondents. No notice will be taken of anonymous communications, and correspondents are requested to write on one side of the paper only and give their real names and addresses, not necessarily for publication, U«i as a guarantee of good faith. Illustrations should be drawn on separate pieces of paper. We do not undertake to return rejected communications. HOLIDAY NOTES. [9095] Having just returned from holiday in
. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. Nov. 19, 1914.] THE BRITISH BEE JOURNAL. 41T. The Editors do not hold themselves responsible for the opinions expressed by correspondents. No notice will be taken of anonymous communications, and correspondents are requested to write on one side of the paper only and give their real names and addresses, not necessarily for publication, U«i as a guarantee of good faith. Illustrations should be drawn on separate pieces of paper. We do not undertake to return rejected communications. HOLIDAY NOTES. [9095] Having just returned from holiday in the Isle of Man, I thought it might interest your readers to know what a Mecca for bee-keepers the little island is. Nearly every village has one, and sometimes two or three, bee-keepers, and in all my ramblesâand I have traversed most of the roads and lanes and a number of the pathsâI did not see a single skep, but all modern frame-hives. At the little village of Glen Maye, near Peel, I had a most interesting chat with the wife of the Postmaster, who has a nourishing apiary of some thirty hives. He holds the record for the Island for the crop from one hive, and, I should think, for the whole of the British Isles too, having taken 3451bs. from one single stock! This was some years ago. He works entirely for extracted honey, and has many ingenious â devices of his own inventionâone in par- ticular for catching swarms he finds most useful, as his grounds are surrounded by very tall trees, high up which the bees invariably tend to cluster. He therefore invented the ingenious device by which he catches them. Some of the hives are on the roof of an abutment of the house, and he has a cradle worked by a cord on a pulley track, by which he lowers or raises colonies as required. The crop this year is late, he had only just commenced extracting in the middle of July. At Kirk Michael. Avhere there are two flourishing apiaries, none had been taken right up to near the end of the mo
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