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The highly prosperous condition of his colonies is attested 

 by the Report of the Secretary of the Annual Apiarian 

 Convention, which met in his vicinity last Spring. This 

 Convention, the fourth which has been held, consisted of 

 one hundred and twelve experienced and enthusiastic bee- 

 keepers from various districts of Germany and neighboring 

 countries, and among them were some who, when they 

 assembled, were strong opposers of his system. 



They visited and personally examined the Apiaries of Mr. 

 Dzierzon. The report speaks in the very highest terms of 

 his success, and of the manifest superiority of his system of 

 management. He exhibited and satisfactorily explained to 

 his visitors, his practice and principles ; and they remarked, 

 with astonishment, the singular docilily of his bees, and the 

 thorough control to which they were subjected. After a full 

 detail of the proceedings, the Secretary goes on to say : 



" Now that I have seen Dzierzon's method practically 

 demonstrated, I must admit that it is attended with fewer 

 difRculties than I had supposed. With his hive and system 

 of management it would seem that bees become at once 

 more docile than they are in other cases. I consider his 

 system the simplest and best means of elevating bee-culture 

 to a profitable pursuit,andof spreading it far and wide over the 

 land ; especially as it is adapted to districts in which the bees 

 do not readily and regularly swarm. His eminent success 

 in re-establishing his stock, after suffering so heavily from 

 the devastating pestilence, in short the recuperative power 

 of the system demonstrates conclusively, that it furnishes the 

 best, perhaps the only means of reinstating bee-culture to a 

 profitable branch of rural economy. 



Dzierzon modestly disclaimed the idea of having attained 

 perfection in his hive. He dwelt rather upon the truth and 

 importance of his theory and system of management." 



