From an old report

> Freezing injures domestic swarms to a greater extent than wild ones, in consequence of the latter inhabiting situations more impervious to the action of cold than are the hives provided for the former. For resisting cold no cheap artificial hive is equal to a hollow tree or cleft in a rock, for the following reasons: Vegetable matter, when dead, parts with its caloric at low temperatures, much more rapidly than when living. The life principle enables all organized beings to retain a more equable temperature than the same can do when dead. So that living hollow trees are better for swarms than sections of their dead trunks. 

> Many persons who are unfit for any hard labor will make good bee-keepers. Such as the aged and lame or deformed of both sexes; who can also obtain from this pursuit a good, independent living—and to all such we say keep bees. With care they need no feed; they increase rapidly, and their produce is not bulky and brings a good price. Laws should also be passed , for the better protection of bee-keepers, and the punishment of honey thieves.

BEE CULTURE IN OHIO. BY JOHN KIRKPATRICK, CLEVELAND. (1859)

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