INTRODUCTION. 
I am happy to learn from my friend Mr. Langstroth, 
that a new edition of his work on the Hive and Honey- 
Bee is called for; I consider it by far the most valuable 
treatise on these subjects, which has come under my 
notice. Some years before it was published, I became 
acquainted with the main characteristics of his system of 
Bee-culture, and even then, I believed it to be incompar¬ 
ably superior to all others of which I had either read or 
heard. This conviction has been amply strengthened by 
the testimony of others, as well as by results which have 
come under my own observation. 
In my early 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 
greatly superior to any which I have ever seen, either in 
this or foreign countries. Indeed, I do not believe that 
any one who takes an intelligent interest in the rearing of 
bees, can for a moment hesitate to use it; or, rather, can 
be induced to use any other, when he becomes acquainted 
with its nature and merits. 
At length the true secret has been discovered, of 
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