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away any of the credit that belongs to 

 Mr. Alexander; but, while a very great 

 bee-keeper, he is fallible just as common 

 men, and it is no more a mistake for him 

 to be mistaken than for any other man. 

 All but fools make mistakes; and while 

 entirely successful in his own locality and 

 practice, I think Mr. Alexander is away 

 off for most of us, and I am basing my 

 conclusions on several years" experiments 

 on or along this very line. I am no novice 

 in such experiments, I can assure you. 



Mr. Alexander is an old man with 

 whitened locks, bright blue eyes, and the 

 enthusiasm of youth. He is a successful 

 bee-keeper, and I like him, and 1 hope 

 that I may live to some day be just such 

 an old man as he is. It is much to his 

 credit that he has tackled this difificult 

 problem, and made a success of it to the 

 extent that he has. I have no doubt that 

 he has introduced queens exactly as he 

 says, and that they have stayed and 

 layed for some length of time, but I agree 

 with friend Chambers in thinking that 

 this plan will not prove a practical suc- 

 cess with the great mass of bee-keepers, 

 or even with specialists. I would be the 

 last one to wish to throw cold water upon 

 any new plan or scheme, but, unless the 

 new plan can stand the criticism, and the 

 actual use of the work-a-day world, it 

 will prove of no value. 



There are one or two points not touched 

 upon that come to my m-ind: It will be a 

 lot of work to rear and introduce queens 

 as friend Alexander has done, and it 

 seems to me that this time might be more 

 profitably employed in keeping more bees 

 in a normal manner. There seems to be 

 a striving among many bee-keepers to see 

 how much honey per colony they can se- 

 cure. One man will tell how much he se- 

 cured with some special method that he 

 employed, while, with the ordinary mathod, 

 he secured only a moderate amount — 

 much less than with the special plan. It 

 is not always the largest yield per colony 

 that is the most profitable, but it seems 

 to be very difficult to get the ordinary 

 bee-keeper to comprehend this. The time 

 spent in trying to maintain a plurality of 

 queens in an apiary, might possibly be 



more profitably employed in managing 

 another apiary. This is taking it for 

 granted that the plurality plan will prove 

 a success — something that I greatly doubt- 



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