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THE HIVE AND HONEY-BEE. 
hundred colonies. He must therefore have multiplied 
his stocks more than three-fold each year. 
“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, con- 
sisted of one hundred and twelve experienced and enthu- 
siastic 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 liighest 
terms of his success, and of the manifest superiority of 
his system of management. He exhibited and satisfac- 
torily explained to his visitors his practice and principles; 
and they remarked with astonishment the singular 
docility of his bees, and the thorough control to which 
they were subjected. After a full detail of the proceed- 
ings, 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 
difficulties than I had supposed. AY ith his hive and system 
of management, it would seem that bees become at onco 
more docile than they are in other cases. I consider his 
system the simplest and best means of elevating bee-cul- 
ture to a profitable pursuit, and of spreading it far and 
wide over the land ; especially as it is adapted to districts 
in which the bees do not readily ami regularly swarm. 
His eminent success in re-establishing his stock after suf- 
fering so heavily from the devastating pestilence ; in short 
the recuperative power of the system, demonstrates con- 
clusively that it furnishes the best, perhaps the only 
means of re-instating bee-culture to a profitable branch oi 
rural economy. 
