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came from the regular Dovetailed hive. Both 

 lots, as I saw them, were equally well filled. 

 Indeed, it could hardly be otherwise ; for 

 under the same conditions a 4'^ square would 

 be as well filled as one 4> -5 tall. 



I may add that Vernon Burt is very much 

 pleased with the Danzenbaker hive and the 

 4X5 section, and says he will adopt them in 

 future unless he finds something better. 



Yes, the Danzenbaker hive is mentioned in 

 the new edition of our A B C of Bee Culture, 

 along with the Dovetailed, Heddon, and Da- 

 dant ; but I did not and do not now think it 

 would have been wise to give it first position, 

 for it has not yet been tested sufficiently to 

 give it that distinction. The hive that is 

 given that honor is the regular eight-frame 

 Langstroth ; and we are safe in giving it such 

 prominence, because it has been tested in all 

 localities by bee-keepers of every shade of 

 opinion, with the greatest satisfaction. The 

 Danzenbaker hive may be a better one ; but as 

 publisher and manufacturer we can not afford 

 to put it in the lead until it has pushed itself 

 to a point where it may be recognized as a 

 leader. If the hive is a good thing, and if it 

 is certainly superior to the regular Langstroth, 

 no fear need be entertained as to its future. 

 If it is as good a hive as the regular eight- 

 frame Langstroth, but no better, it will have 

 hard work to push the latter " to the wall." 



Pres. Whitcomb, at the Philadelphia con- 

 vention, said that, in his opinion, any stan- 

 dard hive, having movable frames, was as 



good as another. While this statement needs 

 some modification, yet there is no denyingjthe 

 fact that there is a great deal of truth in it. It 

 is W. L. Coggshall who puts locality first, the 

 man second, and the hive' last ; but a poor or 

 inconvenient hive, even though it has mov- 

 able frames, may entail upon the bee-keeper 

 in a good locality a great deal of unnecessary 

 labor, to say nothing of the fact that the honey 

 produced would not be in as marketable a 

 shape as that produced in a better hive. — Ed.] 



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RAMBLE 175. 



Practical Work; a Valuable Article. 



BY RAMBLER. 



From my observations when I come in con- 

 tact with bee-keepers I find that they possess 

 more or less ingenuity, and the many little 

 inventions will attest this fact ; and that there 

 have been no great and far-reaching inven- 

 tions is because our industry is not great and 

 far-reaching. The old adage, that ' ' water 

 will never rise higher than its source," has a 

 capital example in the inventions for the bee- 

 keeping industry. The source, bee-keeping, 

 is practiced by but a small number of the 

 great human family ; and an invention, how- 

 ever great for its class, is not for wide appli- 

 cation. The bee-keeping improvements have 

 been in the line of small things, and it is the 

 multitude of these that have been the factor 

 of progress. 



RAMBLER'S UP-TO-DATE HONEY-HOUSE. 



