generate heat and naturally increase faster, and swarm earlier from this cause. I grant it; but one of the tall hives lost no bees, and was very strong, and yet did not breed as rapidly as the other.--I make this statement without favor or partiality. I expected a different result. I have no hives--patented or unpatented, no territory, or interest in any patent, to sell. I have made a hive on the plan of Mr. Gallup and Mr. Truesdell; which I believe possesses many advantages, and is capable of being used more ways, with the same size frame for all the different styles, than any hive I have seen described. The brood apartment is the plain box of Mr. Gallup--eleven inches wide, fourteen inches deep, eighteen inches long, or as much longer as may be desired. The frames are hung across the narrow way. I have given greater depth and less width than my model, because I wanted to winter out-doors, and because I wanted to use the same frames-in a non-swarmer, with two tiers of boxes at sides. We can use this hive--1st. as a simple frame hive, with large room on top for surplus boxes.--2d. By extending the length to any desired number of frames, frames for surplus honey may be put in each end, for emptying with the extractor.--3d. It can be easily made a two-story hive, with frames in the upper story the same size as in the lower one.--4th. By having movable side-boards, it may be made a non-swarmer on Mr. Quinby’s and Mr. Alley’s principle, and piles of honey boxes may be put on the sides and top. I have one made this way with thirteen frames, sixteen five pound boxes form the sides, and three twelve pound boxes on top, all enclosed in a suitable case. This is made somewhat like Mr. Alley’s hive; but I think is better than his. To avoid one extreme--the flat form, he has gone to the other, and has his hive too tall and too narrow. From all that I have read from our best German and American writers on the subject, I think I have hit the “golden mean” of width and depth. The great beauty of it is that the same frame can be used in all the different styles; and that we may have a variety of hives with but one size of frame. I call this hive, with its non-swarming and box arrangement, the “QUINQUEPLEXAL-DUPLEX-COMBINATION-NON-PATENTED-SUPERFLUOUS-HONEY-PRODUCING-HIVE.” It is said “there is nothing in a name,” but if I could only get friend Price’s “_Reversible-Revolvable_” attachment, with the privilege of adding the name, there would be considerable improvement in adopting this compellation for the modified arrangement. THADDEUS SMITH. _Pelee Island, Ontario_, Sept. 10, 1870. [For the American Bee Journal.] The Thomas Hive. Mr. EDITOR:--I wish, with your permission, to correct some few errors which have appeared in the Journal with regard to the Thomas hive in Canada.