BEE MANUAL. 231 
CAPT Er XLT. 
SURPLUS HONEY—MODE OF SECURING AND 
MARKETING. 
THE provident instinct which induces the honey-bee to store 
up honey for future use, and the restless industry with which 
it utilizes every opportunity of doing co, are the inherent 
qualities of the insect which enable man 10 turn its labours 
profitably to his own account. Bees, like all other animals, 
are actuated by a natural desire to ‘increase and multiply,” 
which is perhaps more strangely evidenced in their case than in 
most others, because out of twenty thousand or more that 
form a colony there is only one, the queen, which can be sup- 
posed to have a truly parental instinct. It is, however, clearly 
with the object of supplying food for the rearing of future 
generations, and for the use of all during a time when little or 
none can be gathered, that these busy workers are led to collect 
on all favourable occasions so much larger quantities of honey 
than what can be required for immediate use. The aids 
afforded to the bees in a state of domestication under the 
improved system of culture enable them to store much larger 
quantities than they could do if living in their natural homes, 
and by preventing as far as possible the multiplication of 
swarms, the great bulk of the surplus honey, which would 
otherwise be devoted to the formation of new colonies, can be 
utilized for the benefit of their owner without detriment to 
the bees. 
SPRING MANAGEMENT, 
With the advent of spring come some of the chief duties of 
the apiarist. The object of his labours at this time will be to 
see that his stocks are progressing favourably, and that nothing 
is left undone to get them into good condition for taking every 
