146 CONCLUSION. 



sessing great knowledge of bees, when perhaps 

 they never saw a bee ; and care not one straw for 

 the advancement of successful bee culture. I find, 

 with the great majority of hives now in use, there 

 are many obstacles to successful and profitable bee 

 keeping. There is too little room for storing box 

 honey in them. Boxes are often difficult of access 

 to the bees, so that they manifest much reluctance 

 about entering them, often clustering on the outside 

 of the hive through the honey season, when they 

 should be at work in the boxes. Then, too, the 

 boxes are usually too large, which renders the honey 

 unsalable. Honey in large boxes often contains 

 cells of brood, and bee bread, or pollen, interspersed 

 among the honey cells, which are a great damage 

 to it, rendering it very unsalable. Glass boxes, 

 each holding about four and one-half pounds, is the 

 proper size. A swarm of bees in a hive with thirty 

 of these boxes, judiciously arranged, will fill them 

 nearly as quickly as they would half the number, as 

 the bees have ample room to work without crowd- 

 ing. 



There are a vast number of bee keepers who now 

 have bees which are of no profit to them, but in- 

 stead are only a perplexity and trouble. If such 

 v^rould manage their bees on correct and scientific 

 principles, in accordance with their natural habits 

 and instincts, with judicious care and attention be- 

 stowed at the right time, and in the pi'oper manner, 

 using a hive constructed in accordance virith those 

 principles, they would be surprised at the results 

 which would follow. 



