Mayor's Office, Nevada, O., Sept 14, I860. 
• To those unacquainted with the Arm of H. A. King & Co., thia Is to certify that 
the members of said arm arc men of unquestionable integrity, and in their positions 
of usefulness are much esteemed in this community. r „^ mrr , r 
J. S. LEITH, Mayor 
This may certify that the firm of H. A. King & Co. have a large correspondence 
throughout the United States, wliich, with their sales of books, embrace almost one- 
third the business of this office. L- NICHOLS, 
Postmaster at Nevada, Ohio. 
From J. Eisor, Esq., Courtly Commissioner, Nevada, Ohio. 
The home sales of the American Bee-Hive are very large and yearly Increasing, 
the Hive being generally used in this whole reglou. 
J. KlSOR. 
Office of tee American Express Co., Nevada, 0. 
The shipments of Hives, Italian Bees, Books, &c., by H. A. King & Co., constitute 
more than one-third the business of this office, aside horn their quantity shipments 
by freight. Q ^ MAXFIELD, Agent. 
From the United States Agricultural Ileporl for 1866. 
“The American Hive is so constructed that no air space is allowed between the 
frames and honey boxes ; this air space in other hives not being an advantage, but 
causing a great waste of heat/’ 
From Mrs. E. S. Tuppet, Iowa’s Noted Writer on Bet Culture. 
“Although I have twenty patent rights in my drawer, this is the only hive I have 
ever been able to approve and recommend as safe.” 
M. L. Dunlap, of Illinois, a distinguished Apiarian, Editor “Illinois Farmer, ’ Rr- 
ral Tribune correspondent, and member American Pomological Society, wrote in 
1804: “We have given ‘The Bee-Keeper’s Text-Book’ a careful perusal, and are 
highly pleased with it. The ideas on wintering bees are very valuable, and must be 
of great use to us on the prairies.” 
In 18G5, in the Chicago “Tribune,” he says: “Let every bee-keeper buy solo a 
standard work on bees, such as Langstroth’s, King’s, or Qulnby’s, to aid him, uid 
leave quackery to die a natural death.” 
In 1800 he writes : “We find ‘ The Bee-Keeper’s Text-Book ’ the inostvaluiblc 
of all the late works on bee culture.” 
From J, Harris, Editor Otnttre Farmer. 
1 have read your work on bees, and like it very much indeed. I got more nfor 
mation from it than from any other work I ever read. 
