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affected stocks. In addition to Chapter XI., see pages 444-449, and 
page 454. ere ; 
Radical change or revolutionary teaching, though proving correct 
in application, is seldom accepted as an economic principle for at 
least a decade after its advent. The same may be said of my original 
principle of advanced hive construction, and prevention of swarming, 
as finally represented in the Conqueror hive which was illustrated in 
my 1893 edition and left to work its way upon its own merits. 
By referring to the bee-literature of that period, it will be found 
that neither at home nor abroad was there any mention of a non- 
swarming hive or system until after the publication of the Author’s 
pamphlet upon the subject in 1886; many copies of which were 
circulated both here and in America, as well as in the colonies, 
and other countries. 
In the same work was given also ny Systems of Controlling Swarm- 
ing with common hives, such as ‘“‘ Swarming without Increase,” and 
«Combined Swarming and Doubling without Increase”; definite and 
vital principles laid down in the said pamphlet of 1886, and such as 
are not even yet realized by the majority of bee-men who are still 
striving after what has already been given them to see and to use— 
processes which will enable them to double the strength of their 
honey colonies. 
I may be excused for suggesting that this work will not become 
out-of-date, when I refer my Readers to the American Bee-Journals, 
wherein quite recently a number of methods offered by our cousins as 
new and valuable items in management, were first published by 
myself in definite form twenty to thirty years ago. 
Some of the latest of these adaptations being the Author’s 3-side- 
cut sections, with the whole sheet of foundation placed across three 
to four sections in a line without other fixing (1887); the only 
practical method of (uncooked) soft sugar feeding, described as ‘‘ dry 
feeding” to distinguish it from syrup feeding (1883); the systematic 
production of ‘‘drawn-combs” for all sections prior to each season 
(1886); and other items herein enumerated. 
The Author holds very moderate views as to the necessity of legis- 
lation for controlling the actions of bee-owners in regard to bee- 
diseases. He would welcome a reasonable law regulating this 
matter; but that will only be by the extremists on either side sinking 
their prejudices, and agreeing upon a mutually beneficial and 
moderate line of action. 
S. SIMMINs. 
QUEENLAND, 
HEATHFIELD, SUSSEX. 
May, IgI4. 
