132 FIFTY YEARS AMONG THE BEES 



of some foolish project that I thought might increase the crop 

 But I haven't done as badly as I might have done, for my good 

 wife has acted somewhat as a balance wheel, advising me to 

 " go slow " and not experiment on too large a scale, and she has 

 always been abetted by her sister, who is perhaps over-conser- 

 vative. I could have tested my plan with 15 excluders just as 

 well as with ten limes that number, but I knew the plan would 

 work, and I couldn't wait ! I think I didn't consult my wife 



Fig. 



~C rock-find-plate Feeder. 



about ordering the 150 excluders. As I grow older I may learn 

 caution, and experiment on a smaller scale, but too much should 

 not be experled of me. 



PLEASURE OF EXPERIMENTING. 



As an offset to the mischief done by experimenting on too 

 large a scale, I may say that one of my keenest enjoyments is 

 the working out of problems connected with beekeeping. There 

 is never a time, summer or winter, when I am not cooking one 

 or more schemes, plans or projects connected with the business. 

 Vo doubt more money could be made at beekeeping if every- 



