SPRING MANAGEMENT .—Chapter XIX. 
of its work and problems, what to do, how and when to do it. The purpose 
of the book has been to give one tried and proven way of performing every 
important operation connected with the right keeping of bees. There are 
different ways of performing many of these operations, as the beginner 
will shortly learn—and there are many ardent advocates of each different 
way. It has been the author’s very great and conscientious care to try to 
give only the simplest and surest way. So it is that some things that 
might have been said have been left unsaid, because of fear of confusing 
the beginner with too much detail or theory in his first steps. So we leave 
him to begin another year’s cycle, to repeat the work done in the first 
vear, in the same way—except that experience will have taught him les- 
sons in beekeeping that no book can teach him. 
There only remains to add an appendix, devoted mainly to the explicit 
explanation of some of the unexpected or even unpleasant problems that 
may possibly present themselves to the beginner in his early experiences, 
and which must be met promptly and effectively when they do occur. 
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