96 RECOMMENDATIONS. 
common hive placed in a chest, and surrounded by a number of contrivances by far the 
best adapted to the habits of the bee and the wants of the apiarian of anything that has 
come under my notice. C. SPRINGER. 
Meadow Farm, Muskingum Oo., O., Oct. 28, 1852. 
[The following is an extract from a letter I received from Isaac Griffin, of Quaker 
Springs, Saratoga County, N.Y. He first purchased a hive, and, after using it, he bought 
the right for Saratoga County ; since then he has purchased the right for four counties 
more.] 
‘CRESPECTED FRIEXD, E. W. Pueips :—Last week I took my hive to our County Fair, and 
was awarded a premium of $1.50. I have made some progress in selling rights, and have 
met with much better success than I anticipated ; so, now, I can say that I would like to 
purchase part, or all, of the following counties.” [Naming five counties, four of which 
Isince sold him.] “ Thy friend, respectfully, ISAAC GRIFFIN. 
“ Quaker Springs, Saratoga Co., N. Y., 9th menth, 21st, 1852.” 
am credibly informed, that in less than one week’s time he disposed of $825 worth of 
tights in Saratoga county, and was offered $100, cash in hand, for four towns more. The 
following is from the same, since purchasing four counties above mentioned :] 
EsTreEvED FRIEND, E. W. Puerps :—I have just returned from a twelve days’ tour in 
Columbiana and Renssalaer counties, as I think with very good success. I have appointed 
several responsible agents that are to pay me $2 for every right disposed of. In addition 
to the above, I have realized $20 for individual rights. I will observe that I have shown 
my model hive to a great many persons, and there has not yet an individual told me that 
they ever saw a hive that combined so many advantages as this, and the gencral sentiment 
has been that it stands unrivalled. Thine, respectfully, ISAAC GRIFFIN. 
Quaker Springs, 12th month, 18th, 1852. 
Mr. E. W. Puerps—Dear Sir :—I have now had bees in your hive two seasons, and it 
has more than answered my highest expectations. I consider it decidedly the best invention 
for keeping bees that has come within my observation, and I have kept bees for a number 
of years, and have paid a good deal of attention to the subject—have examined_hives of 
various forms and patents—but, in my opinion, none will compare with yours, when put 
into practical use ; for, the longer I use yours, the better satisfied I become of its great 
utility. I consider it just what the bee-keepers of our country have long needed. The 
arrangement of your boxes, (or sections,) with the pane of glass in the back side, and the 
dividing shutters attached to cut off the communication, places the colony under the in- 
spection and control of the apiarian without the slightest exposure to the bees. The 
arrangement of the bottom, also, with the moth-traps, placed within the hive, is the most 
simple and effectual device for preventing the ravages of the moth, and the most conven- 
ient and effectual means to destroy them after they have entered the hive, that I have ever 
known. And in fine, take the hive in all its parts, I consider it far superior to anything of 
the kind known tome. It is my intention now to dispense with all my other hives, and 
use none but yours. Your arrangement for feeding bees is the best and most convenient 
that I have scen ; this, I am confident, will make the bee business far more sure and profit- 
.able than it has ever been heretofore. 
Tlere might have been a good many of your hives sold in this vicinity if you had sent 
them here. I will further state, that ] have been awarded the first premium, by our soci- 
ety, on honey taken from your hive for wo seasons past. Respectfully, yours, : 
Bluerock Township, Muskingum Co., O., Sept. 25, 1852. CALEB H. HALL. 
(PHetrs’ Comprnation Bee-Hive was awarded the first premium and diploma, at the Ohio 
State Fair, September, 1851, over Kelsey’s, Dugdale’s, Case & Landreth’s, Wheeler’s, Gil- 
more’s, and,I think, Reynolds and Colton’s. Also, a diploma for the best hive, at the Indiana 
State Fair, and a premium, at the N. Y. State Fair, September, 1852, and premiums and 
eee at every county fair where exhibited, for four years past, when the regulations 
of the societies would admit of giving them to articles from foreign counties. ] 
