. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. Dec. 13. 1900.] THE BRITISH BEE JOURNAL. 489 HOMES OF THE HONEY-BEE. THE APIARIKS OF OUR READERS. The apiary of Mr. Moreland, seen below, and the district in which it is located, is reminiscent of bygone days, for the writer being almost within bee flight of Higher Bebingfon, where some twenty-three years of our busiest work among the bees were spent. ^ The Bidston Hill of to-day is, however, not quite the same forage-ground it once was, when its cottager bee-keepers were able to secure well-filled straw supers of good honey from their ske
. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. Dec. 13. 1900.] THE BRITISH BEE JOURNAL. 489 HOMES OF THE HONEY-BEE. THE APIARIKS OF OUR READERS. The apiary of Mr. Moreland, seen below, and the district in which it is located, is reminiscent of bygone days, for the writer being almost within bee flight of Higher Bebingfon, where some twenty-three years of our busiest work among the bees were spent. ^ The Bidston Hill of to-day is, however, not quite the same forage-ground it once was, when its cottager bee-keepers were able to secure well-filled straw supers of good honey from their skeps and sell the comb from them readily, too, at Is. 4d. to la. 6d. per to furnish the " text," and leaves the rest to one " whose experience of Cheshire as a bee- county is beyond his ; Mr. Moreland belongs to the South, and started to keep bees six years ago in Kent, where he resided. He tells us he is indebted for what he knows in the craft to the "Guide Book " and to the practical help and instruc- tion given him by Mr. H. W. Brice and Mr. Wm. Herrod, the expert, both of whom are well known to readers. At the close of 1S99 business called him to Liverpool, and in November of that year his apiary was transferred from Halstead, Kent, to Bidston, Cheshire, where it is now located on the farm. MR. n. J. B. ilORELAXD S xVPIARY, BIDSTON, CnESlIIRE. lb. This was, however, regularly done in the neighbouring market of Birkenhead or at the houses of Liverpool merchants round about Claughton and the neighbourhood of the famous Birkenhead Park, laid out by Sir Joseph Paxton. This is known to be one of the most beautifal public parks in the kingdom. Bat Birkenhead, "the City of the Future," as it was termed, has fallen upon evil times, and its " future " is not so bright as it once was. This has, however, little to do with bee-keeping, except 80 far as filling the space our friend Mr. Moreland should have occupied with some d
Size: 1794px × 1393px
Photo credit: © Library Book Collection / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury, bookdecade1870, bookpublisherlondon, booksubjectbees
