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the best success in wintering bees, and the same is 
true with regard to every season of the year. A bee 
hive can neither make honey nor manage the bees. 
The Universal Hive is only designed to furnish facil¬ 
ities by which the bees and hive may be managed 
to the best advantage for all purposes pertaining to 
the art and science of bee culture. This managing 
must be done by the beekeeper, and upon it mainly 
depends his success. That hive is the best which 
is the most practical and which affords the best 
and greatest number of facilities at an equal ex¬ 
pense. It should secure in the most practical man¬ 
ner complete and separate control of the combs 
and of the bees at all times and for all purposes 
pertaining to the art and science of bee culture. It 
should admit of being readily enlarged or dimin¬ 
ished at any time, so as to be best adapted to the 
bees and the convenience of the beekeeper during 
all seasons of the year; for colonizing, uniting or 
feeding the bees; uniting or separating their combs 
of brood or honey; for propagating queens in the 
most practical manner, and for shipping them and 
hives of bees or frames of honey conveniently from 
one part of the w^orld to another. 
The hive reduced to a small and compact form is 
best adapted to the bees for winter and spring; is 
the most easily handled, and occupies less room 
during transportation and when placed in winter 
quarters. 
The Universal Hive will be found to possess all 
the advantages herein set forth, by those who will 
fully acquaint themselves with its designs and 
adaptations and use it accordingly, and as compre¬ 
hended in the foregoing pages. 
This short treatise was designed to point out in 
