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HIVES. 
LETTERING HIVES. 
The hives are tastefully lettered with little trouble, by laying 
them down front side up, placing upon them a copper lettering 
plate, and applying a very little thick black paint. Some ot 
the paint already mixed, may be darkened with lamp-black and 
applied with a common shoe-brush. Metal lettering plates are 
expensive, yet hives sell better to be lettered, and as the law is 
strict in regard to stamping patented articles, we will furnish 
lettering plates cut from paste-board, free, which if kept dry and 
carefully used, will last for years. 
MANUFACTURING ESTABLISHMENTS. 
Our invitation, given in 1865, to open a correspondence with 
owners of planing mills where lumber is plenty, for the man- 
ufacture and sale of hives on liberal terms, has already re- 
sulted in the establishment of many factories, East, South and 
West, and we hope the arrangement will soon become so general 
that all orders sent us can be filled from factories so near the 
residence of the purchaser that the expense of shipping will be 
trifling, and no longer form a barrier to the universal introduc- 
tion and use of our improvements in the most distant localities. 
By having the lumber dressed with a planer and cut up with a 
' small circular saw, more than oge-half the labor is saved, yet 
we pay a price equal to hand labor to guard against competi- 
tion between different factories, which would lessen instead of 
increase the number of places of manufacture, and thus defeat 
