INTRODUCTION. 



I AM happy to learn from my friend Mr. Langstrotb, 

 that a new edition of his •work on the economy and proper 

 treatment of the Honey-Bee, is called for ; I consider it 

 by far the most valuable treatise on this subject, which 

 has. come under my notice. Some years before it was 

 published, I became acquainted with the main character- 

 istics of the method which he pursues and which it 

 describes. Even then, I believed that method to be in- 

 comparably superior to all others of which I had either 

 read or heard. This conviction has been amply strength- 

 ened by the testimony of others, as well as by results 

 which have come under my own observation. 



In my earlier life I had no inconsiderable experience 

 in the management of bees, and I am bold to say that the 

 hive which Mr. Langstroth has invented, is in all respects 



