Description
Object description
whole: the five main images are positioned in the upper four-fifths, with a smaller image placed in the lower left, held
within a blue circular inset. The title and text are separate and positioned in the lower quarter, in black. Further text is integrated and
located in the upper right, in black. All set against a white background and held within a light brown border.
image: the first image depicts three bee-hives in a garden. The second image is of bees drinking from a bowl of wet sand. The third image
depicts winter feeders used in bee-hives. The fourth image is of a comb being removed from a honey extractor. The fifth image depicts three
jars of honey. The smaller image is a Union Flag.
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BRITISH HONEY PRODUCTION: No. 4
PREPARING HIVES FOR THE WINTER REST
The hives should face south-east or south so as to get the early morning sunshine and they should be shaded from the blazing midday sun and
placed near trees or shrubs. These act as a wind-break and protect the bees from any inclemency of the weather. Picture 1 shows a typical
British apiary. Bees need drinking water and, at the height of the breeding season, a colony will drink about one pint of water a day. The
water must be fresh, but if no running water is near the hive a bowl of wet sand, as seen in picture 2, will serve the purpose. Picture 3
shows four types of winter feeders used in British hives. Each hive needs about 60 lb. of food for the winter, so the bee-keeper leaves
some of the honey collected in the summer and makes up the balance with sugar-syrup. In picture 4 a comb is seen being taken from a honey
extractor - the honey should be strained before being put into jars. One-pound jars of honey are shown in picture 5. An average hive will
produce from 40 to 50 lb. of surplus honey in a year, while a good hive, well kept, can produce over 100 lb. of surplus honey. In England
and Wales £1,250,000-worth of honey is produced for sale in a year.
FOR FREEDOM
G.P.D. 377/38/22.
Physical description
British Honey Production: No 4
GPD 377/38/22
An Arabic language version was also produced (see PST 16165)
Produced as part of a series of posters (see PST 16158 to PST 16163)