REFACE. 
Bee keeping is primarily a breeding problem, for the honey surplus 
of a colony depends so much on the queen. In order to make more 
public some of the best methods of queen rearing, this bulletin is 
issued. Much of the labor of manipulation can be avoided by the use 
of the systems herein described. 
It is held by the best bee keepers that it is necessary to restock all 
colonies with new queens every year: but the practice is not as com- 
mon as it should be. It is hoped that the simplicity of the methods 
hereafter described will serve as an inducement to those bee keepers 
who have not adopted the plan to pursue it in the future. 
The rearing of queens has become a separate field, in that some men 
devote their entire apiaries to this purpose; and to these professional 
queen breeders must, to a large extent, be given tin 1 work of the 
improvement of stock: but it is far from wise for the ordinary honey 
producer to neglect this side of the industry. 
E. F. P. 
