12 PREFACE. 



keeping on correct principles should be encouraged, 

 until bees enough are kept to collect all the honey 

 now allowed to go to waste, and which it collectetJ 

 by bees and stored in nice glass boxes, would add 

 millions of dollars to the wealth of the country. 



Since the day I introduced my Controllable Hive 

 and New System of Bee Management to the notice 

 of the public, the worthless bee hive swindlers and 

 their tools have been boiling over with Vvrath 

 against me, lying and slandering me through the 

 public journals, and especially through the Bee 

 Journals, and all because, that I, a woman, had 

 succeeded in inventing a bee hive and new system 

 of bee management superior to anything yet pro- 

 duced, and which was fast coming into use on its 

 merits, among bee keepers ; consequently the sale 

 of other hives ■•vas decreasing in the same propor- 

 tion. I first perfected the hive and system of man* 

 agement for my own use, with no thought of mak-" 

 ing it public ; but through the kindness of my per- 

 sonal friends and others who have visited me to 

 enquire into the new system, it has become known 

 from Maine to Oregon, and adopted by many of the 

 most intelligent bee keepers in the United States i 

 And in compliance with that command in the good 

 book which reads^— "Z^e/ your light shine" I am 

 determined to spread the truth, regardless of all op= 

 position from the ignorant and selfish crowd which 

 is constantly attacking me. 



Without egotism, I claim a thorough knowledge 

 of the habits and instincts of bees. Consequently I 

 claim a thorough knowledge ot the requisites of a 



