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up for those that would leave and get lost in the cold or in the 

 rain. 



We never use drone traps, moth traps, separators, queen 

 excluders, entrance guards, etc. Separators are useful in comb- 

 honey production, but not with our system. 



We never cut our queens' wings. We do not disapprove 

 of the practice, but we do not find it necessary in our system. 



Conclusion 



In our description of the Dadant System of beekeeping 

 we do not w r ish to be understood as advising the average bee- 

 keeper to change from any system that he now uses. There are 

 tens of thousands of beekeepers using 8-frame Langstroth hives, 

 10-frame hives of the same depth, and even other patterns, with 

 good success. Our own success, for more than a half century, has 

 caused inquiry as to our methods. That inquiry led to the pub- 

 lication of this work. W T e have no apology to make, but neither 

 do we urge the following of our system nor the adoption of our 

 hive. The only thing which we consider absolutely indispensable 

 in modern beekeeping is the use of a movable-frame hive of 

 sufficient capacity for the prolificness of the queens. But there 

 is no doubt in our mind that a maximum crop of extracted honey, 

 can be secured by the Dadant system with less manipulation 

 than with any other system yet made known. More bees may 

 be kept, more honey produced with the same hours of labor. 

 We have given our reasons for using this method. That is enough. 

 Let the reader decide for himself as to his course. 





