PREFACE. 13 
a thorough knowledge of the requisites of a hive, and all 
fixtures pertaining to it, as well as a knowledge required 
to make bee keeping successful and profitable and all 
this has been acyuired in the school of experience and 
practice. 
Kind reader, I respectfully submit the following pages, 
and ask for them a candid and unprejudiced considera- 
tion. Read carefully and understandingly, and apply 
to bee keeping, and I feel certain you will realize many 
times the cost of this book in the increased profits of 
your bees, managed as here directed. 
The statements herein set forth are the result of many 
years’ practical experience with bees with a view of 
making the raising of honey for market profitable, and 
the general management of bees successful. 
Mrs. Lizziz KE. Corton. 
West GoruamM, Mg., Aug. 5, 1880. 
Since the publication of the first edition of this work, 
in 1880, and the use of the Controllable Hive for more 
than twelve years, I find only a very few minor points in 
the hive which can be improved. I have made a com- 
plete revision of the hive and all fixtures, with the view 
of correcting every imperfection, however slight, and I 
feel certain that the hive as now arranged is perfect in 
every particular. 
