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THE BEE-KBKPERS' REVIEW. 



The ABC 

 of 

 Bee Culture. 



iqoo Edition. 



The onl> Encyclopedia on Bees. 



500 Pages. 



Read what the editor of the Revue 

 Eclectique, one of the leading French 

 bee journals has to say of the 1699 edition. 



We have just rceived the latest edition of this 

 manual of apiculture, published by the celebra- 

 ted house of The A. I. Root Co., and, after having 

 gone over it attentively, we do not fear to affirm 

 that it is the most learned treatise that has ever 

 been published on bees and their culture. 



Its title, "A B Cof Bee Culture," is too modest; 

 it deserves, rather, to be called an encyclopedia of 

 bee culture. This work is, in fact, a veritable 

 magazine where all questions relative to apicul- 

 tural science are explained with the greatest 

 thoroughness. The subjects in it are arranged 

 in alphabetical order, with numerou., engravings, 

 finely executed, which aid to a proper under- 

 standing of the text. 



Since the first edition, published in 1877, 

 67,000 copies have been sold. This unprecedent- 

 ed success indicates sufficiently the value of this 

 work, which, in every respect, is a perfect one. 

 The typography, the illustrations, the paper, the 

 binding, leave nothingto be desired. l,et no one 

 believe here that we make an idle boast. The 

 humble praise we have accorded this work is 

 based on its real merit, to which the masters of 

 apicultural science have already rendered the 

 most flattering testimonies. 



The well-known editior of Gleanings in Bee 

 Culture, one of the bee-journals the most widely 

 known, is better situated than anybody else to 

 follow the progress of modern apiculture. Not 

 only is Mr. E. R. Root in correspondence with 

 the leading lights in modern apiculture, but 

 he is at the head of the most extensive apicul- 

 tural establishment that exists. Not only has he 



gathered together the experiences of the more 

 celebrated bee-keepers during the past 22 years, 

 but, before accepting them and putting them in 

 his book, he has carefully tested them all, and 

 has experimented with all in his own apiary; 

 hence one should look in this book for the most 

 recent conclusions in movable-frame apiculture. 

 It is there, also, that one will find the best sys- 

 tems. Nowhere, it is well known, has the devel- 

 opment of apiculture been .so great as in North 

 America. The Americans, eminently indus- 

 tr ous and practical, have made bee-keeping a 

 special source of revenue. It is, consequently, 

 of great interest to study their methods, the best 

 of which are explained in the ABC of Bee Cul- 

 ture, and which will, we believe, extend the hor- 

 izon of all beginners who have entered the api- 

 cultural field with the object of making it a 

 means of livelihood. We do not know how to 

 urge those of our readers any more strongly, if 

 they understand English, to get this book. We 

 hope to see it published in French. We are sat- 

 isfied that it would have in France, as well as in 

 America, a considerable success, h- P. Prikcr. 

 Revue Eclectique, Sainte Soline, par I,ezay, 

 Deux Sevres, France, February, 1900. 



Now remember that the book has been 

 again carefully rewritten the past sum 

 mer and is fully up to date with much 

 valuable new matter. Price 1 1.20 post- 

 paid to any country, or clubbed with 

 Gleanings in Bee Culture, new or renew- 

 al, one year, I1.75. If Gleanings is sent 

 to a foreign address, 48 cents extra for 

 postage. 



The A. I. ROOT CO., Medina, Ohio. 



