1910 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



415 



BEE-KEEPING IN ENGLAND. 



A Glimpse of Several Apiaries Showing how the 

 Work is Carried on. 



BY JOSEPH TINSLEY. 



I am forwarding to you several i)lioto- 

 c;rai)hs of I^lnglish apiaries and bee-keepers, 

 with some interesting information, in the 

 ho])e that many of your bee-men will be 

 l)leased in seeing how we carry on the in- 

 dustry in the old country. 



The upper view, p. 422, shows the apiary 

 of Miss Baggeley, Sw^ymerton, Stone, Staff. 

 Miss Baggeley is one of the many success- 

 ful bee-keepers in England. Her occupa- 

 tion is housekeeping at a large farin house, 

 and in her spare time she attends to the 

 bees. The three frame hives are of the " W. 

 B. C." pattern. A glimpse is also seen of 

 the old-fashioned skep, and the same is fix- 

 ed in the photo in the manner in which it 

 is adapted for supering. There are still a 

 number of these primitive hives in England; 

 but their numbers are rapidly diminishing 

 as the growth of scientific bee-keeping con- 

 tinues. As an exhibitor this lady has been 

 singularly fortunate, winning many medals 

 and prizes. She always gets one shilling 

 per lb. for her honey — about 25 cents. 



Mr. .T. Cooper, Rose Cottage, Petsall, 

 whose apiary is slaown in the middle view, 

 is situated on the borders of a large indus- 

 trial center. He is not located in the best 

 district for bee-keeping, but nevertheless in 

 1908 he secured from five hives 300 lbs. of 

 superior honey. An excellent photo is 

 shown of his Wells hive, for which he has 

 great admiration. 



The lower view shows the apiary of a more 

 extensive bee-keeper, Mr. George Evans, 

 Bromstead, Newport, 

 Salop. Mr. Evans is 

 employed on a large es- 

 tate as woodman, and 

 in his spare time he at- 

 tends to his bees, con- 

 sisting of some twenty 

 colonies. He is one of 

 the most successful 

 exhibitors we have, and 

 has won quite a num- 

 ber of medals. Situat- 

 ed in one of the best 

 districts in the coun- 

 ty, he produces comb 

 honey of exceptional 

 quality. To show how- 

 successful he really is, 

 he averages from the 

 sale of honey about 

 £.50 ($242) , and £5 ($24) 

 in prizes. Single one- 

 pound bottles he sells 

 at 25 cts. each, while 

 for 1-lb. sections of 

 comb honey he rarely 

 receives less than 32 

 cts., Sand, as he says, 

 he.could sell more each 



year if he had it. It is good news to hear 

 that he has never been able to fill all the 

 orders he receives for honey. 



In the separate view is shown one part of 

 Mr. J. Tildesley's apiary at Tamworth, 

 Staffordshire. As will be noticed, Mr. T. 

 makes his own hives from boxes. He has 

 only a few squares of ground at his back 

 door, being situated in the center of a town; 

 but he manages to keep three hives here. 

 The remaining colonies are situated in the 

 open country. An idea can be got from a 

 method of spacing the frames. The brood- 

 box, you will notice, has ten frames proper- 

 ly spaced for brood-raising, while a larger 

 "spacer" is fixed on the shallow bars, re- 

 ducing the number to eight. 



Stone, Staffs., England. 



CAN COMBS AFFECTED WITH AMERICAN 



FOUL BROOD BE FREED 



FROM DISEASE? 



A Scheme to Get Rid of Disease by a Large Force 

 of Young Bees. 



BY HENRY STEWART. 



[Some lime ago the writer of the subjoined arti- 

 cle wrote, stating that he had discovered a method 

 of cure for foul brood that he thought was very val- 

 uable, and wished to know how much we could 

 pay him for a series of two or three articles. We 

 told him to send them on and we would later write 

 him what they were worth to us. They came duly 

 to hand, and, after a careful perusal of them, we 

 decided that he had something worth presenting 

 and offered him our top-notch price. The first of 

 the series is here given. 



The writer, Mr. Henry Stewart, an expert bee- 

 keeper, is one of the most extensive producers in 

 the United States. If what he says had come from 

 a smaller bee-keeper with lesser experience we are 

 frank to say that we might have dismis.sed the 

 whole matter as hardly worthy of attention; but 

 we know Mr. Stewart too well to believe that he 



MR. J. TILDESLEY, AN ENGLISH BEE-KEEPER WHO MAKES HIS 

 OWN HIVES. 



