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would satisfy me and I doubt that that mauy 

 would be work well "doue all day loug. I do 

 uot wish to discourage the iuveutivo genius, 

 because, from the many but few will be 

 chosen or stand the test of time and ex- 

 perience, but the Reese escape in principle 

 and form is the one. Neither do I wish to 

 detract from Mr. Reese the honor and credit 

 due to him by writing tlie trutii of what I do 

 know and can prove to be true, but 1 write 

 to show how slowly the tiuest and most valu- 

 able things develope. Through the modesty 

 of the inventor an invention may be known 

 only locally and the tirst case is a verifica- 

 tion of the second and vice versa. 



You say you have not tried the escapes. I 

 have used them by the dozen, and find it 

 pleasant to go out late in the afternoon, 

 sepai'ate two crates, place the escape be- 

 tween them, and, when the escape is proper- 

 ly adjusted, raise one end of the board cover- 

 ing the sections, as you advise, give the bees 

 a few deluging puffs of smoke then shut it 

 down and in the morning go out with my 

 wheel barrow for my crates of honey. 



When using the escapes always give them 

 plenty of space beneath; always give the 

 bees time enough, and always take time to 

 do the job and do it well and leave no cracks. 

 Hurried work. is always slighted somewhere. 

 Bro. VV. Z. H., don't, with a helper, put on 

 four escapes per minute; just take four 

 minutes to put on one. Such rapid work 

 might surprise the bees and arrest all work 

 for the day. 



The full appreciation of the escape is at 

 the stinging part of the season and when 

 they sharxjly and pointedly insinuate "bet- 

 ter leave us alone you honey thief." I can 

 handle more honey aloue with 20 escapes 

 properly made, than I can with a helper, 

 without the escapes. 



WooDBUBY, Conn., July 1st, ISDl. 



Those who Have Used the Porter Escape 

 and What They Say. 



K. & E. C. POUTEB. 



^OUR postal of yesterday at hand. I 

 think Mr, John S. Reese, of Win- 

 chester, Ky., if requested, would 

 give you an article on escapes in general and 

 ours in particular and he may do so without 

 being asked. He has tested our escapes 

 thoroughly and gives them his hearty in- 

 dorsement. On June >Sth he writes us: 

 " Having given the escapes a practical test it 



gives me great pleasure to say that they are 

 absolutely perfect, and beyond all question 

 of doubt, will do their work under all circum- 

 stances. 1 can not tolerate my own make 

 any more after using yours, and I enclose 

 $2 for as many as this amount will buy. I 

 will write an article for Gleanings and 

 give the facts as I know them." Since our 

 escapes have been advertised we have re- 

 ceived orders for something more than 2,000. 

 Many who ordered but one as a sample to 

 test have ordered more— all the way from .') 

 to 40 each for their own use. But very few 

 of these, however, are beekeepers who write 

 for the journals. So far we have not re- 

 ceived a word of complaint from our cus- 

 tomers but many of praise. They will be 

 handled by the leading supply dealers next 

 year. We did not expect to sell many, if 

 any, to supply dealers this year but have 

 already received orders from Root, Kretch- 

 mer. Tinker, Gary, the Falconer, Co. and a 

 number of others. 



I think J. A. Green has tested our escapes 

 quite thoroughly and ' could probably give 

 you a good article. 



"Rambler" also would probably do the 

 same thing, if he hasn't rambled too far 

 away. 



Some time ago we sent a half gross of 

 escapes to A. N. Draper, of Upper Alton, 111. 

 and he probably knows something about 

 them by this time. 



W'e enclose a copy of a letter received from 

 J. F. Mclntyre which you are at liberty to 

 use as you wish. Will write you some more 

 when we get time. 



FiLLMOEE, Cal., June 23rd, 1894. 

 R. & E. C. Porter, 



Messrs. — Lewistown, 111. 



I have- tried your bee-escapes under 

 various conditions to see what they would 

 do and will now submit my report. In the 

 first place your escape is far superior to any 

 other bee-escape which I have tried and I 

 have tried several. Being positive in its 

 action it will finally clear the bees out of 

 any super no matter how large. I find that 

 the length of time taken to clear a super of 

 bees depends on tlie number and kind of 

 bees and the size of the super. A T super 

 full of comb honey will be cleared of bees in 

 about ;") hours. Extracting supers with small 

 frames like Heddon's or Dr. Tinker's are 

 cleared nearly as soon, say 6 hours; with a 

 full depth, 10-frame Langstroth super it 

 takes much longer, from 12 to 24 hours, 



