81 ."oa@1 as.I'.'5Fe From the Lincoln courier
ELLANcowAN, BEArrrEss' FoRD, N. C., I,
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ELLANGowAN, BEATTIEs' FORD, n. c., \
1la ~ 2s 2h,4 ISL September 8, 1845. 81


Mr. Eccles: wish through the columns Of
your paper to make known to my fellow-citizens
the utility of Martins Improved Bee House.
Doubtful of the alleged usefulness of this inven-
tion, owned right some IL months ago. But
last winter when absent my wife also.purchascd
right to build one and contracted to have it built
paid for the building ten dollars, the right cost
FIVE. On the first of June drove five swarms of
my bees into the Hive; and they filled l8 cells
out of the 81 in the Hive. 1 drew off two of
them last night, and on accurate weighing they
gave So lbs each of the most beautiful and white
Honey / ever saw. shall on Tomorrow take
two or three more, leaving the balance for the
winter food of the bees. Had the bees been put
in the hives in the Spring, by the first of August
could have taken every cell or hive, and from
that time to frost the bees could have supplied their
winter food. Each cell yielding 50 lbs. will give
for the whole hive more than 900 of honey
year. This may seem incredible, but it is capa-
bic of veri6cation by any one who will try it:
and can be sworn to by some of my neighbors
who witnessed my taking the honey last night.
The advantages of this hive are chiefly that it
prevents the ravagcs Of the miller, whose worm
is the most deadly enemy that bees have, and has
in this neighborhood destroyed whole hives and
the practice of killing the bees when their honey
is taken is entirely done away with. To me it
always seemed a most ungracious return to the
industrious little insects that after they have work
ed necessarily and provided US with the rich fruits
of their industry that we cruelty rob them, and
in doing so, numerically destroy them. BY use
of this hive, the practice is unnecessary, and by
using it am confident that our citizens, even in
this time of scarcity and drought, provided they
have good cows, can realize the scripturnl prom
Use of ga land flowing with Milk and Honey"


Yours, &c.


JNO. H. WHEELER.