The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1878-08-13 00:00:00

BEE-KEEPING.

Bee-keeping, its facilities and advantage,
jug a triumphant densimstration. The fourth
meeting of the British Bee-keeping Associatiao ;0;
being held in the grounds of the ltoyal
Society, has been numerously attended, art,i—,Z7
interesting display of bee furniture and bas
is as complete am could have been wis
shed. fita—rh'
object of the Association is not to bewilder viziers he
intricate technicalities, or to impress then eti,
difficultiei of etticulthree On the eoutrare it itie
ppuerieing the industry, and, by reduciet it ,
simplest and most economical procedure pea*:
tempt the working man and the cottager to keep bft.
By exhibiting. therefore, the latest
and honey extractors, the Society shows in the
practical manner how little trouble is involvediihe.
keeping, while, by placing side by side the
combs obtained from the scientific conetretr.el
which the insects are now housed, con
is borne to the productive charactevrtul
The hives now generally in use are, indeed. Leta it.
simplicity and comprehensive pronsion
...el want., most attractive to the woukibe
median, while the facility for removing te.t...1
honey and the personal security guaranteed dunag the
process reduce the attendant terrors to a sew
In the modern hive, a miniature SWiell cottage
appearance, tbe bee has it. lines laid down for it both
. to length and width, and each or any strip of
can be lifted out from the nue& store roma
required, all being of an equal size and equal, irel
from y,.ung NVOd cella or impurities. But eager
great merit of modern apiculture is the itscreetg
humanity of thc processes employed, for where eel
a whole colony had t s be smothered or detre,e4
In order that their honey might be takee, at tie
present day not a single insect is killed three the
whole community be robbed of every drip of the
manufacture. The Association draws special &Unties
to this fed in the statement of it. aims and it. object.
and Mr. Abbott and the other founders ante Soon;
as also the much larger bee-keeping community ;I
Greet Britain whom it represents, deserve, third.%
to be congratulated on the attainment of such anis,
factory results.
No insect has had so many historian., eels
Literature so many similes and illustrations, or
so large a share of nivel-alit.' attune*, an rt
Ari-tomachus, studying its Unita for sixty piers, sal
Rabe., retiring into the depths of a fared to perste
the. fascinating course of obervation undistened,
may be cited to illustrate from ancient times thedeve
tion to this branch of science, of which, is gee
modern dap,Reauntin and Huber are moth distiegiehe
examples. But patience in research and saga* fa
obeerration, however eminent in degree, hays 4,
failed to exhaust the subject, and the physelon eag
domestic economy of the bee continue to afford today
problem. and =reels u novel and remarkable as nee
Bret Virgil sang of the wonders of the hive. Ths
different classes into which the community is dived.
the offices which distinguish each, and their woodr,.
diversities of structure the architecture of their cells
and combs, their cedes ethics and civil polity the
attention paid to the rearing of the young and ite
aarcuwlllz.edg ere .e .7. 0f
Important
the .monarch-mother of the
tinny, and pre edeoti fa,
Nearly sending forth new swarms—all these, though de rem
rudiments of the science, after centuries of che
scrutiny, present fresh themes for admiration had
research. Nor has the queen bee had all her nor,
told, for bee-literature is still contributing to on
nation ha. at one tan tiros or oth
p er, nue
the object which the " &dish" am other Beekeeping
Association have in view are therefore DUMAS.
Most interesting, perhaps, among thee national
enterprises were those of the Greeks and Egyptiae
both if whom, to secure for their bee an evil than-
dance of flower, throughout the year. canied thin
hive* from country to country. pureeing summer.
Hundreds of barges heaped op with hive annually
travelled up and down the Nile between Loser
Upper Egypt, and the Greek bee-farmers of Aches
regularly sent their insects off at the proper Neon as
a tour of Attica and the Wanda. In ranee thee ber
btrges still exist on some riven, and the little inmate
floating down by night, awake each morning to
find themeless in the midst of new panne.
Nature itself, as shown at the Etiolates
now open, here comes to the assistanos of
man, for, while the silk worm demands a
pzi Caul ir food, the cochineal a serial loose in, isi
the lac insect peculiar trees for bete proper develop.
meat, the honey bee thrive. bet in the waste coma
f the earth, the heather covered moor and
the ditch and b lekage bright with mall ,w,
burr-dock, and dandelion; the hedgerow tined
with honey-suckle and branub'e. the common on,
grown with yarrow, the hank where fi 'oriels the Mid
cabbage and wild turnip expelled from the fields, and
all thou odds and ends of land where the thistle and
groundael, borage and nettle po-sess the soil. All
these are included among the bee's favourite plants,
and, even with mignonette to tempt it, the inserted"
the wild sainfoin in preference. Across a garde
brilliant with all the ti iumpha of modern floral none
it will wing its way to some neglected bit of wooden
where the clemate is growing and will reject all the
splendours of the parterre to seek out a bumble hew
field. Amide provision for the bee has thus bees
made by Nature; but man, by his ordinary cultivates
of clover, sainfoin, and lucerne, peas and bem,
mustard, and many another common crop, admirably
supplement. the little creature's diet. For board Jen
Ire, the bee costa nothing; for lodging a mere trite;
while, for attendance, no other living charge makes.
slight a claim upon human attention. Given fine was
ther, the hive owner may bask in the eon all clay,
complacent in the knowledge that the honey 6
aunnentin4 in the cells as certainly as money put en
at compound interest is accumulating in the
Facility of production, however, is not the nib
argument required t make apiculture attractive tithe
cottager and working man. It must also be shon
that the industry is a paying one. A prise hived
honey obtained by joining swarma, weighed, in the
Exhibition held last year, the comb and honey aloes,
one hundred and sixty pounds, while the prise cosh
In the present show weaghs, the portion ethibitei,
over forty pounds. Three, however, are "prize' pro
ductions, and we must rate an average hive at 011*
fifth, or thirty pounds of hooey per annum, which with
honey at ninspenoe a pound gives an annual icons
per hive of twenty-two shillings and gizmo. A
dozen hives would give no more trouble then not et
that by simply putting out twelve hives os a heed
the cottager may, if he chooses. make he bees pay hi
rent. Those, therefore, who say that an easy sem
of income I. neglected have ample grounds for their
statement. But it es not only to the country wenn
that apiculture recommends dealt for here, in the w/
heart of London, in the topmost storey of a house is
the Strand, is thriving a colony of bee They tel
their material in the parks and in the gardens of the
Embankment, the lime-trees in our streets, the Seem
In window., on band harrows and shops, and, ji spe
of the wide area over which the bees have to nom
and the labour of flying with their burdens up to gni
a height, the hives are flourishing and productive. af
bringing fans like these prominently before the Uhl*
and thus practically demonstrating the facilities with-
in earl reach of the poorer classes that exist both is
town and country, the Bee-keeping Assonance ise
doing good INCVIOII, and it is satisfactory therefore is
know their endeavours are waiting at the heeds of IN
public the meat they dassrve. The Hamm
Bardott-Uoucts, w o has this year honoured the
Association by becog President, has, in ontresst
tug to the funds of the Association afforded TA
another instenee of her judicious liberality, and ia dr
Interests of those to whom apiculture would pm'sN _ ,
great a boon, we truffit the imam* of this lawn
patronage may next year find abundant imitation

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hill 19, at Clark Caatle, UN wife of Kr. J. liseol
Miller, of a d" chum
July 31, at the Rine. Ansa, Hotel, Dercheaw.
wife of Cs 4. W. H. Mortimer. 41st Welsh RANI'S.
of a
Jail at Laseclose, Milton Abbas tha wile al 19
Richard Tett, of a sou.
August 1, at Baiter. Paolo, the wife at Yr. W. Calif.
2.01 g.

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Riodes. of a son.
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-inguit 2, at Dorchester, the wife at Mr. Jaw Yearn
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R 011,7 Woreellte, at • gas.
&Must & at Eigsatrisburr, prematurely. the vita at
it.bert Husk grocer sad draper, of a sou.
August 6, at &landlord, tU wife of Mr. H. NM
daughter.

llf PeRRI AGES.
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Ampule 1, at St- George', Flaaoevirequsts..„7
Ron. and Rev Walter Ponsonby, assisted bY wqry
Thomas H. !Mt, the Re, Walter K Nfedhoott. aid.,
Rey. Edward Capel Cure, Walter Hum Lou, •
Rood Ashton, 'Bts to the Lady Dorothy Ray*,
daughter of the Ind and Countess of t orb.
jotattentietpl.rdou,LyF'ootette,tatifoorfloateir,;(ttltie..e,Rowv.FW,...ll.,
third daughter of Mut Thomas Crumple, of the loner
Pier,.
ksguPt 3, at St. Martin's Church, Brighton, 174H.,..,61°
T. Bidwell, twisted by the Rev. H. B
Charles Hann, of Seamiest*, Dorset to Julia 6iese6t
daughter of the late Mr. .G. Prescott. of Dotw'
Atutuet 3, at St. Martin', Church, Brighton, IV
T. ri1d."4,1 'misted by the Rev. H. B. Dickiatoss.r,;
Haan, of B.aminatar, Dorset, to Julia Eleanor, etw,r
of the late W. G. Prescott, of Dorset
August 4, at St. John', Waterloo-road,wilita Lasea.
Henry. log of Mr. Martin Yenning.. of Toll
to Mary Ellen Meanest; of St Mary, Nurullrt"' late of Dorchester.
..,A9tost 6 at the perith church of Holy_ Vila:
trtwonseter. by the Rev. H. tt- rector lar.
P 115.14 tola* 10.1aCeet daagrt::ol kr. J. h. I al°
both of Dorchester.
August 6, at Holy Trinity Church, South Esweill._
the Masher of the Tempt, anemia by Me •••• d
Hugh Butler, wA, Mr. Herbert Oen? Gown "Ill'lter
the Inner Temple, barrister-at-law, youngest John Settee, of Aldan, Yeovil, Somerset, lied
Dorset, to FraactU Eleanor, only ettrybrind ehildol U°
Mr. Joh* Beardmore, of Upland, BenhamA rm." ea
August 7, at the Abbey time& by um. ar, th4fa.
W. tk Lyon, a,ag by gr. kr, 0. W. TIM ,
R. • LooL N. Parker, of Sherborne, to Georgie".—
eldeet daughter of Charles Calder, 01 SherbOroll

DEATH
July a at Belleyillex Outario, Oulkeda. Henri peo
~,,,,..d ,ufsat las of WY* Preelsad sag Ebss 7.lliter, and aely_gesadeou ot_ Kr. sad Mn. 1111110_/ 11
Martin's Haase, Wareham. Dan* aged 8 asoadd
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July 31, at Cletettes liereihaes• Visdrada 411111.
Mikan. la if fad year at Itar
August 1, at Partuait Welt pzwa, cord. ii. Po° What daughtse of J. IL Reful sited 17 mouths
August I, at Bristol, My Heac:lsatilit '..-
formerly. el dyfdabary. Dam!. sa 7( , I
August I. at tbe V Cara• hisa ."-
lidr. John Pope, of 8
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