. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. Jan. 5, 1911.] THE BRITISH BEE JOURNAL. suited for reproduction. I thought it would interest you to have also a photo of an apiary so common in this heather district pa?- excellence. Perhaps more than a quarter of a million skeps are standing here in the heather every year, although the number is slowly decreasing, as is also the area covered by the purple flowers. The method of the " heather skeppist " is an elaborate result of many centuries of bee-keeping, and implies a certain manual skill in handling great numbers of bees. H
. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. Jan. 5, 1911.] THE BRITISH BEE JOURNAL. suited for reproduction. I thought it would interest you to have also a photo of an apiary so common in this heather district pa?- excellence. Perhaps more than a quarter of a million skeps are standing here in the heather every year, although the number is slowly decreasing, as is also the area covered by the purple flowers. The method of the " heather skeppist " is an elaborate result of many centuries of bee-keeping, and implies a certain manual skill in handling great numbers of bees. However, what we, with our modern appliances and hives, call quiet and deft handling has given rise to the tale being told among the people around here that my bees do not sting, though my dog Lux—who is to be . and nicely-built straight combs as far as possible devoid of drone-cells. On ac- count of this constant change of combs, queens, and stocks altogether he is very little troubled with foul brood. One feature of the " Luneburger " method, on which formerly great stress was laid, con- sists in putting aside every year a num- ber of casks filled with honey, for use in feeding in the following spring and early summer. To get this bee-food several hundredweights of entirely capped-over pieces of honey-comb are stamped into suitable receptacles. This mass, having undergone a slight fermentation in the meantime, makes a highly-stimulating food for brood-rearing. But I wonder how much honey nowadays, when silver. A modiera apiiary oa EngJish limes in a very old bee-keeping distiiiict of Nortih G-ermany. The blooming hcatber reaohe® up to the v«ry cintraiioes of th© hives, which are fiacing east, and. are well protiectied towards north and west. The deMberately silow and careful movements of the dog- show that he has learned Ms bee-lesson, hav- ing been oompielled many a timie to try his Inck in swift retineai and taking a unicorn, called forth on his nose by an aji
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