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This controller may indeed be suitable, BUT I wonder whether you have received any clarity on the voltage of the power supply to which it may be connected? While searching various websites for more information on these controllers, I have seen references to 110-220 volts, but not for 240 or 250...

You suggested, “I'll "milk" the bees off over the next couple of months . . . . ” Various ideas have been used over time, to perform “trap-outs” of bees from walls, etc. Bees do not have the same mind-set as us, when it comes to activities of this kind. We may be successful in “inviting” bees...

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If that is what you think should have been done, then why did you not do it?

= = = Installment 13= = = The attached images are of the various diagram figures which are mentioned in the text of this story.

= = = Installment 12= = = HIVE AND BEE FEEDER. Figure 16 illustrates a ten-bar Woodbury Hive, with floor and crown-board. The sides and top are of straw, neatly plaited between the framework. This is an admirable make of hive, but somewhat expensive, and, not being weather-proof, requires...

= = = Installment 11= = = THE AMERICAN NEST HIVE. These hives are circular in form, of American construction, and are exported into this country, and sold at about half the price that would be necessary if they were made here. They are by far the cheapest and best general hives that can be...

= = = Installment 10= = = Part Two contains: - Woodcut Illustrations of all the best Hives in general use, including the "American Nest Hive", "Woodbury", "Stewarton", "Octagon", "Sherrington", "Palace Prize Cottager's", "Improved Straw Skip”, etc. - Honey Extractor, Feeding Troughs, Drone...

= = = Installment 9 = = = THE HONEY BEE. A SHORT SUMMARY AS TO THE REASON WHY IN QUESTION AND ANSWER. Q. Why is it a barbarous and suicidal practice to smother Bees? A. Because all useless destruction of life is barbarous and cruel, the honey being as easily taken without the sacrifice. It is...

= = = Installment 8 = = = If the season continues good, this super will be quickly filled with the purest honey comb, and from 15 to 20 pounds of the best honey will be stored. When full, the super may be removed. If the weather should now become wet and unfavourable for honey-gathering, it...

= = = Installment 7 = = = As I fear there is little hope of inducing the confirmed Bee-keeper under the old system to mend his ways, "charm ye never so wisely", I shall endeavour rather to induce the novice, at present unswayed by prejudice, to take up this profitable and interesting...

= = = Installment 6 = = = Well, to sum up, here we have 95 pounds of honey, 55 pounds of which is virgin honey-comb, value 1 shilling and 3 pence per pound, and 40 lbs of run honey from the old stock, worth 10 pence per pound, making a total of £5 2s, together with a large, strong swarm...

= = = Installment 5 = = = We will now turn our attention to one who really understands the management of Bees, in the person of a certain “Intelligent Mechanic," who has made a study of Bee-keeping, and is eminently successful. He is called by his neighbours the "new-fangled party", who has...

= = = Installment 4 = = = The results that will follow this treatment will be that six or eight strong active stock hives will be found to produce more honey than was formerly obtained from fifteen or twenty hives, and with proportionately loss cost and trouble, and where 10 to 15 pounds of...

= = = Installment 3 = = = By following this system it will be found— Firstly. That by not killing your Bees you can multiply the number and strength of your hives to any extent, and by the increased number of your working Bees, you obtain a maximum yield of honey.(5) Secondly. That by keeping...

= = = Installment 2 = = = The common plan amongst cottage Bee-keepers is to bestow little or no care upon their stocks, from the time their swarms are hived until the fatal fumes consign them to the pit. The hives are often subjected to the scorching heat of a southern aspect, and unprotected...

= = = Installment 1 = = = MY COTTAGE FARM By Kinard B Edwards My cottage farm of five acres; how I made a living by it, stocked, cultivated, and managed it. "At present market prices a clear annual profit of £240 may be realized from the produce raised upon a five acre farm"; PREFACE The...

An image was posted a few days ago, from an old book, “MY COTTAGE FARM”, by Kinard B Edwards. The poster of this image, SteveG, very kindly sent to me a copy of all of the images of the relevant sections of this book. I have had some experience at republishing an old book, and spent some time...

The entrances are on the sides of the brood box, and the brood is in the centre, ie. the entrances are equally distant from the brood area.

I have built my hive bases to have two separate entrances. Rather than having one entrance as wide as the hive box, I have fitted a wooden strip in the middle portion of that "wide entrance area", to leave openings about 7cm wide, and 1cm high. The thought of having entrances like this was...