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plundered beee, supposing or knowing that his neighbor's bees are 

 the plunderers, is likely to feel, if he is not acquainted with the 

 habits of bees, that he ought to be paid damages. In reality, the 

 damages ought to go the other way. The morals of bees cannot be 

 changed, and it is their nature to glean wherever they can in time 

 of scarcity. The man who allows honey to be exposed so as to 

 start robbing, or allo^vs a colony to be weak and queenless so as not 

 to be able to defend its stores, is culpable, and the man whose bees 

 have been demoralized by temptations that have started them into 

 dishonest habits from which they will not readily recover, is the 

 injured party. It is not the business of any man to keep his bees 

 from robbing, but it is the business of every man to keep his own 

 bees from being robbed. 



BEE LITERATURE. 



In the limited comj)ass of this Bulletin it is not jiossible to give all 

 that should be known by one who desires to be fully informed 

 upon the subject of bee-keeping. There are text-books upon bee- 

 keeping that contain five or ten times as much as this pamphlet, 

 leaving the subject so little exhausted that several periodicals de- 

 voted to bee culture have been published for years, each of them 

 formJng an annual volume containing a mass of bee-lore equal in 

 volume to one of the text-books. For the benefit of those who desire 

 to pursue the subject further, it may be well to name the leading 

 books and papers. 



Boofs A B C of Bee Culture \^ not, as its name might indicate, a 

 primer, but a very comprehensive cyclopedia of everything pertain- 

 ing to bee culture; in fact no fuller work upon the subject is published 

 in any language in the world. Its nearly 500 large pages are copi- 

 ously illustrated by engravings, a few specimens of which may be 

 seen in this Bulletin, having been borrow'ed from that work by the 

 courtesy of its publishers. 



Rev. L. L. Langstroth, the inventor of the movable-frame hive, 

 wrote a work upon bee-keeping that is a classic. Written many 

 years ago, it has lately been revised and brought up to the times by 

 Chas. Dadant, a thoroughly practical bee-keeper. The book is 

 called The Hive and Honey Bee. 



The Bee Keepers' Guide: or, Manual of the Apiary., is written by 

 Prof. A. J. Cook. Being a professor of entomology as well as a 

 bee-keeper, he gives prominence to the anatomy and physiology of 

 the bee, followed by a practical treatise on the different subjects per- 

 taining to bee culture. 



The following bee journals may be mentioned: 



The American Bee Journal., 144 Erie st., Chicago ; weekly, $1.00. 



