36 PATENT AND NON—PATENT HIVES, ETC. 
and profitable bee culture. In consequence of my course 
in spreading information with a view to aid the cause, 
the class referred to in this chapter, and their tools are 
boiling over with wrath towards me, lying, and slander- 
ing me through the public press, and by every other 
means which their depraved natures can invent; all 
because I have succeeded by hard study in perfecting a 
hive and a new system of bee management, which is fast 
coming into general use among bee-keepers ; consequently 
the sale of their worthless trash is decreasing rapidly. 
But I am anxious to get through with this part of my 
work, and reach the practical part, where I have the 
greatest confidence in my ability to give such informa- 
tion as will render bee-keeping profitable and desirable. 
