Notes on information contributed by Mr Rimmer, Port St Mary, police officer, about bee-keeping, interviewed by MQ
Date(s): May 1953
Scope & Content: Bee-keeping museum; Information includes sketches; Old-type hive; Lead or metal winter door; Straw Skep; Pots and Jugs; Old customs - Telling death to the bees or the bees will perish - keeping a dead bee in a purse; Conical skeps of wheat straw; glass bells; Bee press for extracting honey; Bee feeder; Beekeeping in the West, reminiscences by John Lancelot Quayle; Foul brood; Native Manx bees and a cross with Italian bees; Isle of Wight disease noted in 1912; Yields of honey between 1899 and 1916.
Language: English
Extent: 4 pages
Item name: typescript
Collection: Manuscript Archive
Level: ITEM
ID number: FLS R/005-A