PROFITS OF BEE KEEPING, 79 
ing the honey season over,) but the bass wood revived 
it for a short time, enabling them to fill up the boxes 
pretty full. I obtained in all from this swarm twenty- 
eight boxes weighing one hundred and ten pounds. I 
shall have ten hives made this winter for use the coming 
spring.” 
A gentleman writes from New York, under date of 
April 2d, 1879: “I have received your hive, which 
meets my ideas of what a bee hive should be. It contains 
all that is required in a bee hive, or in other words it is 
just the thing I have been wanting. I have been using 
the Quinby hive, so called, but I am now going to keep 
bees in earnest on your plan. I have the fullest confi- 
dence of success with your hive and plan of management. 
Your plan for wintering is a good one, on scientific prin- 
ciples, and the arrangement for feeding and surplus 
honey can’t be beat.” 
A gentleman writes from New Hampshire, under date 
of April 26th, 1879: “I have tested your hive, and my 
bees have done first-rate. JI believe the hive is just 
what it is represented. One strong reason why I think 
so much of your hive is, there were not a dozen bees 
died in the hive last winter, while three of my first 
swarms in other hives all died—some of them with fifty 
pounds of honey in the hive. I have lost some winters 
as many as fifteen or twenty swarms. I have now tested 
your hive to my satisfaction, and I do not believe bees 
will die in it, if your instructions for wintering are carried 
