Introduction to Revised Edition. XV 
knowledge should be spread broadcast by every bee-keeper who has 
honey to sell. 
The subjects of queen-introduction, queen-rearing, and many 
others will be found to have undergone careful revision; while in. 
some cases other valuable facts have been added, as the result of a 
further extended experience. 
The treatment of Foul Brood is of such vast importance to bee- 
keepers generally that I include in my new work the several 
propositions formerly published by me in another paper (1898-9), in 
connection with the origin, development, and cure of Foul Brood, 
both with and without medicine, and without the destruction of 
valuable combs and other material. 
Some of the most important features in connection with the 
Author’s definite and successful treatment of brood disease therein 
offered have since been confirmed by other writers, who, unfortunately 
for their own reputation, have claimed the processes as their own. 
My method of Direct Introduction, published some 30 years ago,. 
commended at the time by the late Mr. D. A. Jones, of the Canadian 
Bee Fournal ; by the late Mr. W. B. Carr,in the Bee-Keeper’s Record ; 
as well as by Mr. Fk. Cheshire, in his magnificent work, and by 
numerous other practical bee-keepers, has quite recently been 
claimed by American and other writers as their own idea. 
Thus, in addition to original and profitable methods of management 
in developing immense populations at the right moment, the Author 
offered, in 1886, the only correct method of clarifying extracted honey 
in tall cylinders; also in the same year a new method of greatly 
improving Comb Honey in sections by a simple process of bleaching ;. 
the systematic production of new combs in sections before the honey 
flow occurs, thus nearly doubling the usual yield; and a perfectly 
cushioned Comb Honey Case for railing (or shipping). In 1894 the 
Author offered the first separate and removable queen-cell bases, 
and he herein shows how the cell cups may be constructed without 
using melted wax. In 1883 he offered percolating, or self-acting 
feeders, syrup caus and cisterns, for use in out-apiaries, where it is 
inconvenient to make syrup by cooking. 
The Author’s methods of working two queens in twin hives or 
more queens in treble, as well as in storifying hives, as first offered 
in the 1893 and 1904 editions of the work, are very fully illustrated 
and described. 
The only rational method of improving honey gathering stock by 
establishing a Pedigree strain by a process of registration, and direct 
line breeding as regards both drone and queen rearing parents, as. 
conducted for many years by the Author, is here fully exposed for 
the first time. 
Since the issue of the last edition of this work, a disease previously 
unknown to the majority of British bee-keepers, but quite common in 
America, started in the Isle of Wight and in Cornwall in the same 
year (1904), and has swept over the country like some irresistible 
wave, destroying whole apiaries, and in all, thousands of colonies. 
The owners, including many first-class experts, taken by surprise, 
were helpless in the face of the malady, until the Author showed his 
numerous correspondents how simple a thing it was to deal with by 
following common-sense methods that aim at raising the vitality of 
