Seasons, in connection with syrup, as a stimulant to breeding. Our 

 methods of management and correct feeding in Autumn malce Gaudy 

 absohitely unnecessai-y in winter when it is simply a disturbing element 

 just at that period when bees should ba perfectly restful in the semi- 

 hibernating state. 



Candy will never save a stock where there is not a sufficiency of 

 liquid food, properly stored, in the combs where the bees can reach it. 



SCIENTIFIC VENTILATION OF THE BEE-HIYE. 



lu 1888 >S. Simmins offered tlie renowned Conqueror Hive as the first 

 scientifice development in the correct ventilation of the modern bee-hive ; 

 but even to-day writers iu the journals are laboriously scribbling in the 

 endeavour to find the best method (long since invented by !S.S.), of 

 ensuring perfect ventilation without draught through the bee-nest, as a 

 great aid towards preventing bee-diseases. 



As a matter of fact no other method can be found that allows this 

 perfect ventilation, not only during summer, but also iu the coldest 

 winter weather. 



Many Bee-keepers are afraid 



of extra ventilation in winter, such as the Conqueror Hive offers, with 

 the stock chamber not reaching the fioor by a full half -inch at the least ; 

 or with it raised up as much as five or six inches ! 



They cannot realise the fact that a colony winters better with the 

 stock chamber thus raised from the floor ; but the atmosphere of the 

 hive is actually drier and purer, therefore warmer and more healthy. 



In the closed hive the poisonous gases are not readily carried off 

 during the seiisoii that the bees do not ventilate with their wings, hence 

 the advantage of the Conqueror System which disi^els the heavier impure 

 air that descends to near the floor. 



Moreo\er, the inside of the chamber walls do not reek with moisture 

 as is the case with strong colonies in common hives, and the outer 

 mouldy combs are unknown in Simmins' scientifically constructed hive. 



The final proof of correct construction is to be found in the fact that 

 the hive encourages enormous colonies for early spring work. 



OVERCOMING DISEASE. 



The readiest way to cure cases of I.O.W. disease in Common Hives is 

 that of leaving off all quilting for a i»riod, and when these must be 

 used, they should not be too heavy or badly corroded with propolis, 

 especially during the Autumn, when little breeding is going on, and the 



