78 PROFITS OF BEE KEEPING. 
I will here give the testimony of a few of the many 
who have adopted the plan of bee management recom- 
mended in this work. I should give the name and post- 
office address of each, were it not for the fact that they 
would receive so many letters of inquiry, as to make it 
very disagreeable to them. I have the original and 
complete letters in my possession, and such letters I am 
prepared to show at any time. My object in presenting 
this testimony here, is to show that the system of bee 
management recommended herein is not only successful 
with me, but with all intelligent bee-keepers as well. 
A gentlemen from Vermont writes me under date of 
September 15, 1879, as follows: “I take this opportunity 
of informing you of the experience I have had with the 
bee hive received from you. About the 10th of May I 
transferred a swarm of bees from a box hive to the Con- 
trollable Hive. I transferred all the brood combs, and 
about eight or ten pounds of honey. I fed them until 
flowers were plenty, which encouraged them to build 
rapidly. About the 25th of May I put in surplus boxes 
on the sides, which they soon entered, and went to work. 
The middle of June I put boxes on top, as the bees 
showed symptoms of swarming. By the 10th of July the 
side boxes were nearly all filled, and the bees were at 
work in the top boxes. July 15th I took off sixteen of 
the twenty side boxes, well filled and capped, and placed 
empty ones in their places. August 5th, I took six of 
the ten boxes off the top, well filled. Then the dry 
weather set in, and the bees came to a stand still (think- 
