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of this discovery, procured me the pleasure of an acquaint- 

 ance with Rev. Dr. Berg, pastor of a Dutch Reformed 

 church in that city. From him, I first learned that a 

 Prussian clergyman, of the name of Dzlerzon, (pronounc- 

 ed Tseertsone,) had attracted the attention of crowned 

 heads, by his important discoveries in the management 

 of bees. Before he communicated to me the particulars 

 of these discoveries, I explained to Dr. Berg my system 

 of management, and showed him my hive. He expressed 

 the greatest astonishment at the wonderful similarity in our 

 methods of management, both of us having carried on our 

 investigations without the slightest knowledge of each other's 

 labors. Our hives, he found to differ in some very important 

 respects. In the Dzierzon hive, the combs are not attached 

 to movable frames, but to bars, so that they cannot, without 

 cutting, be removed from the hive. In my hive, which is 

 opened from the top, any comb may be taken out, without 

 at all disturbing the others ; whereas, in the Dzierzon hive, 

 which is opened from one of the ends, it is often necessary 

 to cut and remove many combs, in order to get access to a 

 particular one ; thus, if the tenth comb from the end is to be 

 removed, nine combs must be first cut and taken out. All 

 this consumes a large amount of time. The German hive 

 does not furnish the surplus honey in a form which would be 

 found most salable in our markets, or which would admit of 

 safe transportation in ihe comb. Notwithstanding these and 

 other disadvantages, it has achieved a great triumph in 

 Germany, and given a new impulse to the cultivation of bees. 

 The following letter from Samuel Wagner, Esq., Cashier 

 of the bank in York, Pennsylvania, will show the results 

 which have been obtained in Germany, by the new system 

 of management, and his estimate of the superior value of 

 my hive to those in use there. 

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