. The Bee-keepers' review. Bee culture. VOL. I. FLINT, MICHIGAN, APRIL 10, 1888. NO. 4. The Best Management for Spring—Much De- pends upon Circnmstances. B. L. TAYLOB. The question of the best system of man- agement for securing as early as possible a stro^ force of bees to be ready against the firsip flows of uectar is to me a very puzzling onei It is one thing to give a good method and quite another to say with a feeling of certainty what is the best method. For there is not only the question of actual results, which is comparatively simple, but there is the troublesome though all important
. The Bee-keepers' review. Bee culture. VOL. I. FLINT, MICHIGAN, APRIL 10, 1888. NO. 4. The Best Management for Spring—Much De- pends upon Circnmstances. B. L. TAYLOB. The question of the best system of man- agement for securing as early as possible a stro^ force of bees to be ready against the firsip flows of uectar is to me a very puzzling onei It is one thing to give a good method and quite another to say with a feeling of certainty what is the best method. For there is not only the question of actual results, which is comparatively simple, but there is the troublesome though all important one of comparative expense and tliat not in the ab- stract but in connection with comparative results. The greatest actual results do not prove the method of management by which they were produced to be the best. Time, and labor, and thought, and care, and mate- rial, and capital, are all money, so the great- est result numerically may be obtained at a loss while the least apparent result may yield the greatest net profit. Then again the labor supply greatly com- plicates the problem. One may command enough without other expense than a fair payment for the services, while another must lose time and be at other expense, and undergo vexation tip secure labor competent to perform the critical work required for the proper manipulation of colonies to obtain an early and rapid increase of brood, and be- sides be obliged to pay a high price therefor. One whose time is at his command and the numbers of whose apiary are such that lie can perform this labor himself may adopt a method which one differently situated could not possibly entertain. But these <are j'oints which every one must decide for himself with reference to his own circumstances af- ter becoming ac(]uainted with the require- ments of the several methods. So far as I liave been able to determine from actual experience, the most successful, the most effectual and the most desirable way to be certain of having colonies
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