154 HANDY BOOK OF BEES. 



"Please write soon and let me know if you ever 

 knew a return equal to my stock-Hve and its swarms. — 

 Yours truly, James Eennib. 



••nth October 1S80." 



I am thankful to Mr Eennie for this " pattern card " 

 of successful bee-keeping, which I now present to the 

 bee-keeping community of Great Britain. The system 

 of management which has realised such grand results is 

 the one which is recommended by the ' Handy Book of 

 Bees.' And this "pattern card" of Mr Eennie's ap- 

 pearing in the fourth edition is no small compliment to 

 the system recommended, and no small encouragement 

 to the apiarians of this country. 



With a view to prevent the readers of this book 

 from writing to me to know where this and that hive 

 can be obtained, let me here say that Mr Samuel Yates, 

 seed-merchant, 16 and 18 Old Millgate, Manchester, 

 supplies me and hundreds of bee-keepers in England 

 with good straw hives and other bee furniture. 



Mr James Allen, carpenter, Stewarton, Ayrshire, makes 

 and seUs Stewarton hives. The bar-frame hives may 

 be had of scores of hive-makers and hive-dealers through 

 England — and of Mr Eaitt and some others in. Scotland. 

 I do not trade at aU in hives (empty) of any kind 

 whatever, or in bee furniture. Occasionally I sell stocks 

 of bees to parties applying for them. 



