142 A Modem Bee-Farm 



with the commercial interests of either the producing or 

 manufacturing industry, 



There has long been a smothered feeling of opposition 

 in some quarters against the frame now in use, and yet 

 there are many who refrain from raising a dissenting voice 

 lor fear of coming into conflict with a recognized institu- 

 tion which has not one valuable point as a recommenda- 

 tion, nor a single excuse for its continued existence, 

 seeing that every honey producer using the small frame is 

 at a serious yearly loss, as he may soon ascertain on 

 trial. 



I have no wish to create confusion, or to induce loss by 

 urging all to at once take up with the larger frame our old 

 friend Abbott and other veterans attempted to have 

 recognised as the British Standard. That frame has most 

 certainly been proved, and I therefore recommend it with 

 confidence as being far superior to the present Standard 

 for the production of honey on a commercial and profitable 

 scale. 



My continued pegging away at this all-important sub- 

 ject, both in former editions of this and other works, and 

 by circularising some thousands of my correspondents, 

 has resulted in a considerable revival of interest in the 

 larger frame. Our old friend, " The British Bee Journal" 

 has also, at last, allowed a free discussion of the matter in 

 its pages, as public opinion aroused by the prominent 

 facts I had constantly set forth, would be silenced no 

 longer. I was asked by correspondents to join in the 

 discussion, but as the position I had already taken up was 

 so well known, I refrained from so doing. Having 

 had the Commercial Frame (so named by myself) 

 in use for upwards of thirty years, side by side with 

 the Standard frame, my statements will doubtless be 

 accepted. 



