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a brief and comprehensive manner that which is 
necessary to be known and done in order to be the 
most successful in bee culture. To give a minute 
and detailed description of the bees and hive, and 
of the various modes of propagating and control - 
ing bees, and of managing them and the hive for 
all purposes pertaining to bee culture, would require 
a large volume; but it is hoped that enough has 
here been given, it properly heeded, to enable all 
suitable persons to be successful, however inexpe¬ 
rienced they may have been. Correct management 
will ever secure success , and bad management is worse 
than no management at all. Knowledge , rightly ap¬ 
plied is, therefore absolutely essential to success. 
Beekeepers that wish their bees to thrive, 
Should not fail to keep each swarm alive; 
And if kept always strong in numbers, 
Would surely prove worth many dollars. 
If kept in Wright’s Universal Hive, 
With suitable means to work and thrive. 
For further evidence of the practical superiority 
of this Hive, those interested are referred to sue 
cessful beekeepers who are using it, and to the 
Hive itself. A few testimonials only will here be 
given: 
“Your Hive is one of the very few that is real good 
and no mistake.” 
L. C. Waite, St. Louis, 
Sec. Beekeeper's Association of the State of Missouri. 
Oskaloosa, Iowa, May 1st, 1872. 
Mb. A. T. Wright—Sir:— My bees have win¬ 
tered well in your Hive in the open air, without 
any protection around their comb frames, and are 
now strong and populous. For several years past 
I have been using the Langstroth and other improv- 
