The Best Management for Spring— Much Depends upon Circumstances. 

The question of the best system of management for securing as early as possible a strong force of bees to be ready against the first flows of nectar is to me a very puzzling one. 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 that not in the abstract 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 material, and capital—are all money, so the greatest result numerically may be obtained at a loss while the least apparent result may yield the greatest net profit. 

But these are points which every one must decide for himself with reference to his own circumstances after becoming acquainted with the requirements of the several methods.

R. L. TAYLOR, Lapeer, Mich., The Bee-Keepers' Review, 1888

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