20 THE HIVE AND HONEY-BEE. 



hundred colonies. He must therefore have multiplied 

 his stocks more than three-fold each year. 



"The highly prosperous condition of his colonies is 

 attested by the Report of the Secretary of the Annual 

 Apiarian Convention, which met in his vicinity last Spring. 

 This Convention, the fourth which has been held, con- 

 sisted of one hundred and twelve experienced and enthu- 

 siastic bee-keepers from various districts of Germany and 

 jieighboring countries, and among them were some who, 

 when they assembled, were strong opposers of his system. 



" They visited and personally examined the Apiaries 

 of Mr. Dzierzon. The report speaks in the very highest 

 terms of his success, and of the manifest superiority of 

 his system of management. Efe exhibited and satisfac- 

 torily explained to his visitors his practice and principles ; 

 and they remarked with astonishment the singular 

 docility of his bees, and the thorough control to which 

 they were subjected. After a full detail of the proceed- 

 ings, the Secretary goes on to say : 



" ' Now that I have seen Dzierzon's method practically 

 demonstrated, I must admit that it is attended with fewer 

 difficulties than I had supposed. With his hive and system 

 of management, it would seem that bees become at once 

 more docile than they are in other cases. I consider his 

 system the simplest and best means of elevating bee-cul- 

 ture to a profitable pursuit, and of spreading it far and 

 wide over the land ; especially as it is adapted to districts 

 in which the bees do not readily and regularly swarm. 

 His eminent success in re-establishing his stock after suf- 

 fering so heavily from the devastating pestilence ; in short 

 the recuperative power of the system, demonstrates con- 

 clusively that it furnishes the best, perhaps the only 

 means of re-instating bee-culture to a profitable branch 01 

 rural economy. 



