382 A Modern Bee-Farm 



than one queen in a hive. Doolittle and others made 

 some practical demonstration of the fact, but neither of 

 them preceded Dr. Stroud. 



Mr. Wells, of Alesford, however, was the first to reduce 

 the matter to practical working as a system in hohey 

 production. See The British Bee Journal oi 1892. 



The stock hive is divided by a perforated wood dummy, 

 while the bees from both sides have common access to the 

 supers placed over excluder zinc. 



CoMiNt; Events, Etc. — The illustrations on page 87 

 are from the original blocks given in my Non-Swarming 

 pamphlet of 1886. The Fig. No. 01 is the ordinary ex- 

 tracting chamber of the economic hive, while 02 is the 

 set of dividers arranged for placing in the said chamber 

 when desiring, as I then explained, that the extracting 

 combs should be worked perfectly even over their whole 

 surfaces, the better for uncapping by mechanical or other 

 means. 



,A Life Insurance can not compare with the planting 

 of a few acres of land to suitable Apples and Pears ; such 

 as command good market prices. 



Some of the best Apples realize in ordinary seasons 

 los. to 15s. a bushel, while those from the old "mixed 

 up" orchards are worth but three or four shillings. Such 

 is the case also with pears of good varieties ; and the best 

 of it is with most of the apples and some pears, there is 

 no hurry to rush them off to market, as must be done 

 with stone and other small fruits, of course excepting 

 gooseberries. 



The greatest profit per acre is secured by selecting bush 

 trees, grafted on Paradise stock, and planted after the 

 manner of cabbages ; and even the tenant farmer, if he 



