Elisha Gallup.
Orchard, Iowa.
[For the American Bee Journal.]
Alley’s Improved Langstroth Hive.
Mr. Editor:—For twenty years I have had experience in bee-keeping, and had within that time as many different styles of bee-hives in my apiary; but, taking everything into consideration, the advantages derived from Mr. Alley’s, proves it to be the best I have yet seen. It has the best shape, the greatest amount of animal heat for wintering bees, and as for storing honey, it allows as much room for surplus honey as the largest stock would need.
These are only two among the many advantages it presents. Many more might be mentioned. I simply state these, as I consider them the most important. Brother bee-keepers, who are about to purchase, should not fail to give it a trial.
Levi Fish.
Danvers, Mass., Sept. 10, 1870.