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the States from the Atlantic to the Paeific. I fear 

 such statements will lead many to incur loss and dis- 

 appointment. 



One of two things is, I think, very evident ; either 

 that those countries are cultivated in such a manner 

 as to produce immense quantities of honey-producing 

 flowers, greatly exceeding any thing in this country, 

 or else these statements are overdrawn and exagge- 

 rated. 



I take the liberty of making some extracts from an 

 article which appeared in the Ohio Farmer, written 

 by Mr. Quinby, in reply to an article by E. J. Stur- 

 tevant. Mr. Quinby says : "I was much interested 

 in the article of E. J. Sturtevaut, that appeared some 

 months since in the Farmer, and very much regret 

 that I could not be fully satisfied with his reasoning. 

 The subject is one in which I am deeply interested. 

 Myself and partner have bees in ten different apiaries, 

 that are distant from each other some two or three 

 miles. In spring they average about seventy stocks 

 in each. Each of these yards requires the attention 

 of a man constantly during the middle of the day, 

 through the swarming season, some five or six weeks. 

 There is also much travel, cartage of hives, boxes of 

 honey, &c. Now if we could bring all these bees 

 into two or three yards, there would then be a much 

 less number to the square mile than is said to be 

 kept in many places in Europe, and we could save a 

 hundred or two (dollars, I suppose,) by the change. 



"I will offer some reasons why I dare not do so, 

 notwithstanding the strong authorities against me. I 



