CHAPTER XLVI. 
REMARKS, 
In the foregoing pages, I have endeavored to state my views in as 
brief and explicit a manner as possible. My opinions, as there stated, 
are the results of practical experience and observation during many 
years’ careful attention to the subject. Iam aware that my views 
and mode of management differ in some respects from other writers 
on the culture of the Bee; but I have endeavored to give my reasons 
for forming my opinions, and adopting and recommending the form of 
hive and mode of culture herein stated, and I leave it with the intel- 
ligent and impartial Bee-keepers of the United States to judge of the 
merits of my labors and the value of my invention. And, judging 
from the universal satisfaction my hive has given during four seasons 
past, and the high commendations bestowed upon it by ninety-nine 
out of every one hundred that have used, or examined it, I can but 
feel confident that unlike a large majority of the patented hives that 
have been disposed of during the last fifteen years, it will prove a va- 
luable invention to the Bee-keeper, and divest the subject of much 
that has formerly been considered mysterious, uncertain and difficult, 
and enable every person that has a desire to engage in the business, 
to prosecute it successfully, profitably and pleasantly. 
The few remaining pages will be devoted to a description and ex- 
planation of my Omto Comsryation Beg-Hive, to which I append a 
few of the numerous testimonials I have received from practical ex- 
perienced Bee-keepers, who have tested it. 
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