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and habits of bees. It is no fault of the system, if he 

 experimented only with aged queens, or, on the other 

 hand, inserted virgin queens, which, failing to mate, 

 turned out useless, or were lost because of unsuitable 

 weather for them to fly and become fertilised. Strange, 

 indeed, he does not know that if a queen is once 

 accepted she is at once treated as the reigning queen, and 

 np amount of specious reasoning to the contrary can alter 

 the fact. 



Why is it, in my own case, my queens go on to lay at 

 once, and remain in the respective hives month after 

 month, and are only removed when sold, it may be one 

 two, or twelve months thereafter ? 



And why should numerous correspondents write as 

 follows : " I have inserted thirty queens by your method 

 and all have been successful and done well " ? The num- 

 ber may be more or less, but the unsolicited testimonials 

 must have some element of truth in them ! Note Mr. D. 

 A. Jones' statement, already given ; surely he would not 

 favor the method if it only meant loss of queens ! 



Who has once read the late Mr. F. Cheshire's testimony 

 in his valuable work, and can for a moment doubt the 

 value of my 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 intro- 

 duce, 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 express- 

 ing my indebtedness." 



Yet other evidence is given by the editor of the Bee- 



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