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Bee-Keeping for Beginners - According to the Syllabus of the Board of Education for Schools - Walter Chitty
BEE-KEEPING FOR BEGINNERS.
CHAPTER I.
ADVANTAGES OF BEE-KEEPING.—USEFULNESS OF BEES: (a) AS PRODUCERS OF FOOD OTHERWISE WASTED; (b) AS FERTILISERS, VALUABLE TO THE FARMER OR GARDENER.—DISTRICTS SUITABLE TO THE INDUSTRY
THERE are many advantages connected with beekeeping. Not the least of these is the fact that a great many of the manipulations must be conducted in the open air, and thus both health and strength may be improved. One of the most celebrated beekeepers was Lorenzo Lorain Langstroth, an American, who was born in the year 1810. He was brought up as a clergyman, but owing to ill-health he was obliged to give up his profession and take to out-door exercise. He was ever a lover of insects, and so he took to bee-keeping. His health at once improved, and he attributes his very long life solely to bee-keeping. It has often been said that it is a good thing for a man to have a hobby. If it is a paying hobby, so much the better. Bee-keeping is one of the most paying occupations in existence. Bees can not only find their own food, but if kept on intelligent lines will produce a surplus—and a good surplus—of honey for the owners. Here, then, are the two chief advantages of bee-keeping—(1) health; (2) profit. It is a hobby, moreover, that will last all the year round, for long winter evenings may be utilized in making hives and other requisites for bee-keeping. Many instances of the profits of bee-keeping might be given. Pettigrew, who was a very successful bee-keeper, says: "My father, James Pettigrew, was a labouring man, and perhaps the greatest bee-keeper that Scotland ever produced. He was so successful and enthusiastic in the management of his bees that he earned and received the cognomen of the ‘Bee-man’; and by this name he was well known for thirty years in a wider circle than the parish of Carluke, Lanarkshire, in which he resided. The district of the parish in which he lived when he kept most hives, took then the name of ‘Honey Bank,’ which it still bears. While a common labouring man he saved a great deal of money from his bees; indeed, it was reported in the Glasgow newspapers that he realized £100 profit from them one season. The bee-man saved money enough to purchase the Black Bull Inn of the village, and therein commence business as a publican and