British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser . fore theseason ended 109 1-lb. sections were takenfrom them. This will, I think, not beaccounted as a bad beginning. In the fall of the same year, Mr. Sim-mons had the bees of three straw skepsgiven to him for the trouble of driving,which was successfully done ; the three lots foundation, etc., together with fourteennew section racks. The honey sold realised£11 2s. Provided the coming bee-seasonproves at all favourable, theee Coggeshallhives may be reasonably expected to yieldexcellent financial results in the courseof the present year. But should th
British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser . fore theseason ended 109 1-lb. sections were takenfrom them. This will, I think, not beaccounted as a bad beginning. In the fall of the same year, Mr. Sim-mons had the bees of three straw skepsgiven to him for the trouble of driving,which was successfully done ; the three lots foundation, etc., together with fourteennew section racks. The honey sold realised£11 2s. Provided the coming bee-seasonproves at all favourable, theee Coggeshallhives may be reasonably expected to yieldexcellent financial results in the courseof the present year. But should there beany failure with regard to the results, itwill certainly not be due to lack of carefulattention on the part of their owner. , The photo shows four of the seven hives,all of which face the afternoon sun; andit may not be out of place here to explainwhy these bear such as ap-peai\> on the front of each. Absorbed as Mr. Simmons is in histwo-year-old hobby, he has been for manyyears, and still is, more keenly interested. MR. JAS. SIMMONS APIARY, COGGLESHALL, ESSEX. of bees being properly united in one newframe-hive and fed np for the winter. Thus the season of 1905 was startedwith three good stocks, which producedthree swarms in May. all of which wereduly housed in new hives. About the sametime a friend presented another swarm,which increased the total to seven frame-hives, all taking the standard frame. Thusseven stocks were in use last summer, andfrom them 281 sections, and 361b. of ex-tracted honey was taken before the seasonof 1905 closed. Now, with regard to the pecuniary sideof the question. Mr. Simmons states thathis total outlay during the two years underreview amounted to £9 6s. This includescost of bees, new hives and appliances, in various societies powerful for good athome and abroad. Already the institu-tions represented in the photograph areindebted to Mr. Simmons bees for contri-butions amounting to some four or fiveguineas. This gentleman in
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