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tanl discoveries in the management of bees. Before he 

 communicated the particulars of these discoveries, I explain- 

 ed to Dr. Berg, my system of management, and showed him 

 my hive. He expressed the greatest astonishment at the 

 wonderful similarity in our methods of management, both 

 of us having carried on our investigations without the 

 slightest knowledge of each other's labors. Our hives, he 

 found to differ in some very important respects. In the 

 Dzierzon hive, the combs are not attached to movable frames, 

 but to lars, so that they cannot, williout culling, be removed 

 from the hive. In my hive, which \s o-per\eA from the lop, 

 any comb may be taken out, without at all disturbing the 

 others ; whereas, in the Dzierzon- hive, which is opened 

 from one of the ends, it is often necessary to cul and remove 

 many comhs, in order to get access to a particular one ; thus, 

 if the tenth comb from the end is to be removed, mne combs 

 must be first cut and taken out. All this consumes a large 

 amount of time. The German hive does noi furnish the 

 surplus honey in a form which would be found most salable 

 in our markets, or which would admit of safe transportation 

 in the comb. Notwithstanding these disadvantages, it has 

 achieved a great triumph in Germany, and given a new im- 

 pulse to the cultivation of bees. 



The folloiving letter from Samuel Wagner, Esq., cashier 

 of the bank in York, Pennsylvania, will show the results 

 which have been obtained in Germany, by the new system 

 of management, and his estimate of the superior value of 

 my hive to those in use there. 



YoKK, Pa., Dec. 24, 1852. 



Dear Sik, 



The Dzierzon theory and the system of bee-man- 

 agement based thereon, were originally promulgated, hypo- 

 thetically, in the " Eichstadt Bienen-zeitung" or Bee-journal, 

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