22 MOVABLE COMB HIVE. 



From the Leipzig Illustrated Almanac— Report on Agri- 

 culture for 1846 : 



" Bee culture is no longer regarded as of any importance 

 in rural economy." 



From the same for 1851, and 1853: 



" Since Dzierzon's system has been made known, an 

 entire revolution in bee culture has been produced. A new 

 era has been created for it, and bee-keepers are turning their 

 attention to it with renewed zeal. The merits of his discove- 

 ries are appreciated by the government, and they recom- 

 mend his system as worthy the attention of the teachers of 

 common schools." 



Mr. Dzierzon resides in a poor, sandy district of Lower 

 Silesia, which, according to the common notions of Apia- 

 rians, is unfavorable to bee culture. Yet despite of this and 

 of various other mishaps, he has succeeded in realizing nine 

 hundred dollars as the product of his bees in one season ! 



By his mode of management, his bees yield, even in the 

 poorest years, from 10 to 15 per cent, on the capital invested, 

 and where the colonies are produced by the Apiarian's own 

 skill and labor, they cost him only about one-fourth the price 

 ai which they are usually valued. In ordinary seasons the 

 profit amounts to from 30 to 50 per cent., and in very favor- 

 able seasons from 80 to 100 per cent." 



In communicating these facts to the public, I have several 

 objects in view. I freely acknowledge that I take an honest 

 pride in establishing my claims as an independent observer ; 

 and as having matured by my own discoveries, the same 

 system of bee-culture, as that which has excited so much 

 interest in Germany ; I desire also to have the testimony of 

 the translator of Dzierzon to the superior merits of my hive. 

 Mr. Wagner is extensively known as an able German 

 scholar. He has taken all the numbers of the Bee Journal, 



