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presently 2,000, and finally some 3,000 colonies, and mean- 
time had paid off his debts from the proceeds, and had 
regained his usual health. Then began a series of invest- 
ments in farm and fruit lands to the extent of thousands of 
acres, all being by profit from the bees. He found a small 
hive of little value, and these were soon discarded for large 
double storied hives. 
Large Hives and -Judicious Planting were the founda- 
tion stones of his remarkable success. “ . . . Bees,” 
he says, “even in an eight-frame hive, generally use the two. 
outside frames on each side of the hive for honey and pollen, 
and this leaves but four frames for brood rearing. This will 
not produce one-sixth as many bees as the colony should 
contain. I went through a colony having on six ten-frame 
hives last summer, and it had brood in 32 frames. That 
hive produced over 500 lbs. of surplus, while the same 
colony, in an eight-frame, with a queen-excluder used, would 
not have produced to exceed 100 lbs. of surplus. A queen- 
excluder will exclude the queen, and will also, to some 
extent, bar or greatly hinder a well-filled hive.” 
Working two or more Queens in one Hive.—Many 
years ago Dr.-Stroud, of Port Elizabeth, South Africa, 
mentioned in the Brztzsh Bee Journal that he had a system 
of working any number of queens in one hive or colony, and 
that he had long practised that method. 
Mr. Heddon, of Dowagiac, Michigan, claims to have been 
the first to point out the possibility of working more than 
one queen in a hive. Doolittle and others made some 
practical demonstration of the fact, but neither of them 
preceded Dr. Stroud. 
Mr. Wells, of Alresford, however, was the first to reduce 
the matter to practical working as a system in honey pro- 
duction. See the British Bee Journal of 1892. 
