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system ? " Following up the question, I tried many dozens of 

 experiments, and found that by Mr. Simmins' method it was 

 quite easy, and not only to introduce, but to get one queen 



to lay in half-a-dozen distinct hives in a single week 



My trials have, I believe, embraced almost every supposable 

 difficulty and variation in season and in the condition of the 

 stocks, and show the system to be practically perfect. . . . 

 . . Direct introduction, as taught by Mr. Simmins, has - 

 saved me queens, time, and anxiety, and I feel pleasure- in 

 expressing my indebtedness." 



Yet other evidence is given by the editor of the Beekeeper's 

 Record of Dec. ist, 1887. After detailing his experience in 

 inserting by my method seven queens " at a season and under 

 circumstances such as rriade us formerly careful to an extreme, 

 we are glad to be able to pronounce the method a complete 



success We can now understand how friend 



Simmins is able to guarantee safe introduction for queens sold 

 by him, and we rejoice at being able to chronicle another point 

 gained." 



The foregoing statements will show the value of the system 

 as applied to varying conditions of the bees, or the seasons, 

 and as the editor of the Record himself says, " The introducing 

 cage bids fair to be relegated to our collection of curiosities." 



