554 ADVICE TO BEGINNERS. 



6. — They are apt to extract too much honey from the brood- 

 combs (?"71). 



7'.— They underestimate the value of good worker comb 



8. — They do not pay sufficient attention to the removal of 

 the excess of drone-comb {G75). 



5. — They become easily discouraged by Winter losses and 

 Spring dwindling. Some of our most successful Apiarists 

 periodically lose a large portion of their colonies, and 

 promptly recruit again, by the help of their empty worker- 

 combs (GYG). 



JO.— When they And bee-keeping successful, they are liable 

 to rush into it on too large a scale before being sufficiehtly 

 acquainted with it. "If there is any business in this world 

 that demands industry, skill and tact, to insure success, it is 

 this of ours."— (TIeddon.) 



iJ.— They are apt to try two or three different styles of 

 hives, before they find out that it is important to have all 

 the hives, frames, caps, crates, etc., in an apiary, alike, and 

 interchangeable, except for purposes of experiment. 



12. — They are liable to attempt to winter their bees m a 

 cold roonij or in some repository in which the temperature 

 goes below the freezing point (648). Many a colony has 

 been thus innocently murdered, by misguided solicitude. 



i5.— They are prone to establish rules of action from ex- 

 periments made on one or two colonies and thus make a rule 

 out of an exception. Experiments have little value if they 

 have not been conducted on a large scale. 



Bee-Kebpees' Axioms. 



896. There are a few first principles in bee-keeping 

 which ought to be as familiar to the Apiarist as the 'otters 

 of his alphabet : 



1st. Bees gorged with honey never volunteer an attack. 



