444 A Modern Bee-Farm 
Second Year. 
Increased to 125 stocks, at 75 lbs. per hive— ££ s. d. 
9.375 lbs... se oe .. at 6d. 234 7 6 
Wax... A me dee ae ais 210 O 
Increase to 150; sell 25... Set «at 30/- 37 10 Oo 
Total for the year... oes £274. 7 6 
Or about $1,370.00. 
In reply to repeated enquiries, the Author wishes to state 
that he has no catalogue. of sundry bee-furniture, and does 
not supply any of the articles mentioned herein, with the 
exception of the Conqueror Hive, of which he will be 
pleased to forward particulars upon application. 
Candy, its Use and Abuse.—Bee-candy is almost uni- 
versally regarded as a supplementary winter food. That is 
a great error, and modern progressive bee-keepers should 
condemn the practice. 
When and How to Use Candy.—For many years the 
Author has endeavored to show that candy is best supplied 
in 6-Ib. to 8-lb. slabs run into wired or box frames, and so 
hung hext the brood frames for stimulative feeding oxy, 
as soon in Spring as the bees break up their own Winter 
cluster, and have free access to natural pollen. When used 
for a similar purpose in Autumn, before finishing with syrup, 
candy frames should all be cleared away before September 
15th. 
Nosema apis.—Self-contradictory Statement.—It has 
recently been stated that Mosema is the cause of all bée 
complaints save that of foul brood! Nevertheless, if Mosema 
apts is, as already declared to be, the cause of the I.O.W. 
trouble; and now is erroneously said to have been the cause 
of all minor bee ailments for generations past, then most 
