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that fellow's advice you have our full 

 consent. In our opinion, there is not 

 another beekeeper in the world who can 

 be fi und using such a hive or one who 

 will accept of such advice as this man 

 Bunch gives. 



Here is another thing that we know 

 mu.-,t be new to the practical beekeep- 

 er. 



"Good subslaiitialliivcs, or clioap ones, 

 made of J inch lumber, are in j^reat de- 

 mand, particularly now that honey is so 

 very cheap." 



It cannot be that the writer of the 

 above reads any first-class bee-paper or 

 he would know that all practical bee- 

 keepers are adopting hives made of | 

 inch boards. 



After a general raking down of otlier 

 people's goods this little Bunch makes 

 the following remark : 



"I think there is as much prospect of 

 their comiuu: into general use as some of 

 the swarm hivers. and otlier Ijee-tixtures." 



Bunch has tried hard to show bee- 

 keepers that he is a big Bunch. His 

 remarks are mostly aimed at the Api 

 and the goods we offer for sale. 



We will inform him and all other 

 cranks who succeed in getting their 

 nonsense and semi-personal remarks 

 published in the American Bee Jour- 

 nal, that the swarm-hiver is coming 

 into general use and that it is a success, 

 too, and all this notwithstanding the 

 foct that Bunch had no hand in its in- 

 vention. 



Bunch recommends making the sides 

 and ends of bee-hives of i| inch stuff. 

 This fact alone is sufficient to show that 

 such a man has had little or no experi- 

 ence in bee culture. In his article 

 the above quotations were taken, this 

 same Bunch says his objection to thin 

 hives is that they cost too much. If a 

 hive f inch thick is costly, what will be 

 the cost of one 1 1 inch thick ? 



Here is a word from a beekeeper 

 who has used the thin hive. The item 

 was taken from the same number of the 

 American Bee Journal, as the quota- 

 tions were from Bunch. 



TIIK BAY STATE IIIVK. 



The hive I use is very much like the 

 Bay State hive, and I think it is the best 

 and cheape>^t in existence for winterinj^ 

 on tile Summer stands. I liave also used 

 "tlie tliin hive," tliat is, I put a divison- 

 board in the middle, and have a colony 

 on each side of it. One entrance faces 

 the east, and the other the west. Tliis is 

 very good for winter, l)ut is rather cum 

 brous wlien I Avant to move it. Closed- 

 end frames are much used in New York 

 State. — J. II. Bi.ANKiON. 



Jemnj City, N. J., Dec. 20, 1800. 



The difference between the two writ- 

 ers is this : Bunch is sore about some- 

 thing, while Blanken is writing from 

 honest motives. — Ed.] 



THE SELF HIVER. 



Friend Alley has improved his self- 

 hiver somewhat, and it is lilvely it will now 

 work inucli better than it did last summer. 

 I am satisfied, however, that I have a 

 much better arrangement than he has now 

 figured in his journal, but of this nothing 

 fnrthi'V will be said till it has been thor- 

 oughly tested next June, 



We find the above in the JVesfeni 

 Plo7vman and from the pen of C. H. 

 Dibbern. Mr. D. says he has a better 

 arrangement for self hiving swarms than 

 our automatic hiver. W^hile we have 

 given proof in these columns that ours 

 has self hived more or less swarms, there 

 is not a case on record where any other 

 swarmer has ever hived even one swarm 

 of bees. We are ready to wage a small 

 sum that not one of the swarmers de- 

 scribed by other people have ever hived 

 a swarm of bees, and that they never 

 will until their construction is modified. 

 Self-hivers were thoroughly tested in the 

 Bay State Apiary last year, and we know 

 what will work and what is not practical. 

 We will not wait till next June to tell 

 you all about it. We tell you what hap- 

 ])ened last Ji^me. Dibbern's swarmer is 

 not yet practical ; never did work suc- 

 cessfully and probably never will. Wny 

 not tell us how you succeeded in 1890 

 and not wait till 1891 ? 



The reason is plain to all. The fact is, 

 D. and several others have cooked up 

 a swarmer from what they have learned 

 about ours, and they have a notion that 



