12 PREFACE. 
ing; yet I believe bee keeping on correct principles 
should be encouraged, until bees enough are kept to col- 
lect all the honey now allowed to go to waste, and 
which if collected by bees and stored in nice glass boxes, 
would add millions of dollors to the wealth of the country. 
Since the day I introduced my Controllable Hive and 
New System of Bee Management to the notice of the 
public, the worthless bee hive swindlers and their tools 
have been boiling over with wrath against me, lying and 
slandering me through the public journals, and especially 
through the Bee Journals, and all because, that I, a 
woman, had succeeded in inventing a bce hive and a 
new system of bee management superior to anything yet 
produced, and which was fast coming into use on its 
merits, among bee keepers: consequently the sale of 
other hives was decreasing in the same proportion. I 
first perfected the hive and system of management for 
my own use, with no thought of making it public; but 
through the kindness of my personal friends and others 
who have visited me to enquire into the new system, it 
has become known from Maine to Oregon, and adopted 
by many of the most intelligent bee keepers in the United 
States. And in compliance with that command in the 
good book which reads—“Let your light shine,” I am 
determined to spread the truth, regardless of all opposi- 
tion from the ignorant and selfish crowd which is con- 
stantly attacking me. 
Without egotism, I claim a thorough knowledge of 
the habits and instincts of bees. Consequently I claim 
