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INTRODUCTION. 
Do not some fail of success in hee-keejring ? 
Yes, just as the farmer fails who neglects his fences, plows 
his lands when too wet, or crops them until their fertility is 
exhausted. So in bee-keeping. Some fail through gross neglect, 
or allow their bees to become so weakened by overswarming as 
to fall an easy prey to the moth ; while others “ divide ” till they 
are left without “quotient” or “remainder.” Let us profit by 
their experience, and prosperity will be the result. 
Is not watching for swarms , hiving, &c., perplexing in large 
apiaries ? 
Yes: and you will find a complete remedy in the chapter on 
“Nucleus Swarming,” which enables you to swarm many stocks 
at one time, securing to each new swarm a fertile queen, without 
removing the old queen from the parent stock or scarcely inter- 
rupting its labors. By this method, you will obtain a steady 
increase of stocks, avoid queenless swarms by loss of young 
queens ; thus, all colonies are kept strong, enabling them to bid 
defiance to the moth-miller and other enemies. This, in the 
words of an eminently practical bee-keeper, “ is both sure and 
economical;” doing away with all watching and loss by flight to 
the woods. 
Is it true that there are only a few who understand the secret of 
handling or “ charming" lees? 
That there are a few who claim to have some great secret, 
and convince gaping crowds by performing tricks and wonder- 
ful [?] feats with bees, (not forgetting to pocket the proceeds of 
the supposed secret,) we readily admit. Yet, it is also true that 
there are hundreds of successful bee-keepers in the United States, 
