and its Economic Management. 381 



Experience must be bought, either through trials and 

 losses extending over several years ; or else by the more 

 effectual and economic plan of working through all the 

 processes on a farm where the various branches of 

 agriculture are carried out in a practical and successful 

 manner. 



Spring Stimulation. — On page 172 will be found the 

 pith of successful preparation for Winter and Spring. 

 " The only reliable stimulation for early Spring breeding 

 is secured by correct Autumn preparation." 



Since this vast and important fact was set out in the 

 earlier editions of this work the expression has been 

 echoed and re-echoed b)- various writers and some of the 

 journals. 



The fact that Foul Brood spores can readily be 

 destroyed by treating them, in detail, as they germinate in 

 the living temperature of the hive without power of re-pro- 

 duction, was made a. law unto bee-keepers by the publica- 

 tion of my propositions dealing with the subject in 1898-9. 



The practical bee-keeper has little need to trouble about 

 the negative results shown by experiments with cold test 

 tubes and other artificial cultivations. The operators 

 usually miss THE POINT, and entirely ignore the helpful 

 conditions that would be offered by the vitality and high 

 temperature of the bees in a strong colony. 



Working Two Queens in One Hive. — A few years 

 ago Dr. Stroud, of Port Elizabeth, South Africa, mentioned 

 in the British Bee JournalXhzX he had a system of working 

 any number of queens in one hive or colony, and that 

 he had long practised that method. 



Mr. Heddon, of Dowagiac, Michigan, claims to have 

 been the first to point out the possibility of working more 



