138 CONCLUSION. 
ledge of bees, when perhaps they never saw a bee; and 
care not one straw for the advancement of successful bee 
culture. I find, with the great majority of hives now in 
use, there are many obstacles to successful and profitable 
bee keeping. There is too little room for storing box 
honey in them. Boxes are often difficult of access to 
the bees, so that they manifest much reluctance about 
entering them, often clustering on the outside of the hive 
through the honey season, when they should be at work 
in the boxes. Then, too, the boxes are usually too large, 
which renders the honey unsaleable. Honey in large 
boxes often contain cells of brood, and bee bread, or pol- 
len, interspersed among the honey cells, which are a great 
damage to it, rendering it very unsaleable. Boxes each 
holding from one to two pounds, is the proper size. A 
swarm of bees in a hive with thirty-eight of these two 
pound boxes, or seventy-six one pound, judiciously 
arranged, will fill them nearly as quickly as they would 
half the number, as the bees have ample room to work 
without crowding. 
There are a vast number of bee keepers who now have 
bees which are of no profit to them, but instead are only 
a perplexity and trouble. If such would manage their 
bees on correct and scientific principles, in accordance 
with their natural habits and instincts, with judicious 
care and attention bestowed at the right time, and in the 
proper manner, using a hive constructed in accordance 
with those principles, they would be surprised at the 
results which would follow. 
