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increase of stocks rather than surplus honey for that 
season. The result was an increase of five swarms, all 
in good condition for winter, and also over seventy pounds 
of honey in glass boxes. 
Another, a lady in Kansas, obtained sixty pounds of 
box honey from a swarm of Italians, which she obtained 
from me late in the spring of 1882. 
A lady in Illinois purchased of me, in the spring of 
1880, a swarm of Italian bees in a Controllable Hive. 
The first season she got one nice, large swarm and a 
good yield of box honey. The second season (1881,) 
she had two swarms to commence with, and obtained 
four new swarms from that two, and about five hundred 
pounds of nice honey in glass boxes. In 1882 she had 
increased her stocks to ten, and reported that she was 
meeting with perfect success. 
A gentleman in Rhode Island purchased of me a swarm 
of Italians in the spring of 1883. They gave him in 
June and July of that year, two fine young swarms, and 
eighty pounds of honey in glass boxes. 
In the spring of 1882, a gentleman in Maine purchased 
a swarm of Italian Bees of me, and that season they gave 
him five large swarms. They were managed with a view 
of securing as many swarms as possible, as the gentle- 
man wished an increase of swarms rather than surplus 
honey. 
Every one who has a place to set a hive of bees, would 
derive great pleasure, as well as profit, in keeping Italian 
bees in Controllable Hives. ‘They are so docile, so very 
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