INTRODUCTION. 



I AM happy to learn from my friend Mr. LANGSTROTH, 

 that a new edition of his work on the Hive and Honey- 

 Bee is called for ; I consider it by far the most valuable 

 treatise on these subjects, which has come nnder my 

 notice. Some years before it was published, I became 

 acquainted with the main characteristics of his system of 

 Bee-culture, and even then, I believed it to be incompar- 

 ably superior to all others of which I had either read or 

 heard. This conviction has been amply strengthened by 

 the testimony of others, as well as by results which have 

 come under my own observation. 



In my early life I had no inconsiderable experience in 

 the management of bees, and I am bold to say that the 

 hive which Mr. LANGSTKOTH has invented, is in all respects 

 greatly superior to any which I have ever seen, either in 

 tliis or foreign countries. Indeed, I do not believe that 

 any one who takes an intelligent interest in the rearing of 

 bees, can for a moment hesitate to use it ; or, rather, can 

 be induced to use any other, when he becomes acquainted 

 with its nature and merits. 



At length the true secret has been discovered, of 

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