BIOGBAPHY OF BEE-KEEPERS. 21 D 



hives into America, taking out tetters patent in 1852 for the hive tha* 

 btill bears his name. It embodies the oblong frame of Major Munn, and 

 the box of Dr. Bevan. Involving the same principles it is decidedly an 

 improvement in mechanical construction upon those in use in England. 

 Mr. Langstroth deserves, and rightly receives, great credit for his perse- 

 vering efforts and experiments in his chosen pursuit, for an abundance 

 of pioneer work, for his zeal in introducing Italian bees, and improve- 

 ments for doing so. But his book on the "Honey Bee" is the crown- 

 ing work of his life, and a contribution to apistic science, which will 

 continue to live. It lacks the practical character of Quinby's work, but 

 is far superior in scientific accuracy and beauty of expression to any 

 American work which has yet appeared, or probably will appear, because 

 henceforth the demand is for something more practical. 



H. A. King has, perhaps, done more than any other man in America 

 in calling the attention of the masses to the importance of improved 

 bee-culture. His American Hive, in its different forms, has, we think, 

 been used more extensively than any other. The Bee-keepers Journa^ 

 commenced in 1868, with a circulation of two thousand copies, at ono 

 time ran up to near thirty thousand. ' ' Hints to Bee-keepers " ran up to 

 thirty thousand copies, and of the old "Bee-keepers' Text Book " up to 

 the present time there has been sold about fifty-one thousand copies. 

 This work, however, was largely the production of N. H. King, deceased, 

 who was one of the real pioneers of scientific bee-keeping, and to him 

 the intensely practical character of this book is due. 



In 1874 H. A. King, in connection with ourself commenced the publi- 

 cation of the Bee-Keepers' Magazine, and in 1?75 he retired permanently 

 from the bee-business to engage more fully in preaching the Gospel and 

 in the dissemination of religious literature. 



