86 PROFITS OF BEE KEEPING. 



I have the original and complete letters in my pos- 

 session, and such letters I am prepared to show at 

 any time. My object in presenting this testimony 

 here, is to show that the system of bee management 

 recommended herein is not only successful with 

 me, but with all intelligent bee keepers, as well. 

 A gentleman from Vermont ■writes me under date 

 of September 15, 1879, as follows : "I take this oid- 

 portunity of informing you of the experience I have 

 had with the bee hive received from you. About the 

 loth of May I transferred a swarm of bees from a 

 box hive to the Controllable Hive. I transferred all 

 the brood combs, and about eight or ten pounds of 

 honey. I fed them until flov^rers were plenty, 

 which encouraged them to build rapidly. About 

 the 25th of May I put in surplus boxes on the sides, 

 which they soon entered, and went to work. The 

 middle of June I put boxes on top, as the bees 

 showed symptoms of swarming. By the loth of 

 July the side boxes were nearly all filled, and the 

 bees were at work in the top boxes. July 15th I 

 took off" sixteen of the twenty side boxes, well filled 

 and capped, and placed empty ones in their places. 

 August 5th, I took six of the ten boxes off the top, 

 well filled. Then the dry weather set in, and tlie 

 bees came to a stand still (thinking the honey sea- 

 son over,) but the bass wood revived it for a short 

 time, enabling them to fill up the boxes pretty full. 

 I obtained in all from this swarm twenty-eight 

 boxes weighing one hundred and ten pounds. I 

 shall have ten hives made this winter for use the 

 coming spring." 



