Axioms. Management of bees. 
1st no queenless stocks to be tolerated, if they 
cannot be supplied, they must be broken up. 
2nd no weak stocks should be preserved over winter for 
stock hives. If such colonies cannot be strengthened 
in time they should be broken up. 
3rd none but hives which afford the bees the most thorough 
protection against extremes and sudden changes of temperatures 
and moisture should be used, they are not worth accepting as 
a gift. 
4th no hives which do not give the apiarian a ready control over 
His hives every comb in a hive should be used. 
5th doubled or powerful stocks should alone be relied upon for obtaining 
surplus honey. 
6th the rapid multiplication of colonies should ever be regarded as 
standing in over climate in direct opposition to the obtaining the 
greatest amount of surplus honey, in any given season. 
7th the idea that colonies can be multiplied and great profits realized 
by any but careful apiarians should be [illegible] as a snare and a
delusion 
8th strength in the early spring absolutely necessary to the profitable 
management of bees. 



