232 A Modern Bee-Farm 



at the same time, will sadly inconvenience many who attempt 

 to carry out the plan. 



The Comparative Advantages. , 



At first sight, to many bee-keepers, the 'dual' plan appears 

 to give extraordinary results ; but it must not be forgotten 

 that there are two stocks working together. Thus the average 

 of, say 160 lbs., if divided between the two will be 80 lbs. only 

 for each stock, and that nearly all extracted honey. It is no 

 unusual thing for a single-queen stock to produce from 80 lbs. 

 to 100 lbs. of comb homy during an average season. But in an 

 apiary run forhoney alone the practical bee-keeper carries out 

 the well-known 



Doubling System 



and secures far better results from the population of two 

 colonies thrown with one queen than can be shewn by the 

 twin hive system ; while the hive is far more simple, there 

 need be no perforated zinc used, and, moreover, there is less 

 fear of swarming. The Wells' plan can hardly stand against 

 the more simple and reliable practice which many bee-keepers 

 seem to have lost sight of, but it should at least bring more 

 forcibly to their notice the undeniable fact that none hut the most 

 powerful colonies are really profitable, and that because at the 

 right time the working force is far in excess of the number of 

 young who require constant attention and make heavy 

 demands upon the incoming stores. 



■Working two or more Queens in Storifying Hives. 



Having so far considered the plan of working two stocks 

 together on the same floor, I shall not be doing justice to my 

 readers if I leave them without shewing how not only two, 

 but any number, of queens may be worked in a far more 

 simple manner on the storifying plan ; so that those using the 



