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trade. The result of all these experiences 

 was written up from time to time in the 

 pages of The Bee-keepers' Review, and 

 the task that devolved upon me was to 

 select this matter from the pages of The 

 Bee-keepers' Review, and signed articles 

 of his that appeared in the columns of 

 Gleanings. AH these were woven into 

 the main body of the work. 



ACTUAL FIELD WORK. 



Some minor changes are made all 

 through the work; but we will speak of 

 only the principal changes. For example, 

 in the chapter entitled " Producing Good 

 Extracted Honey " 1 have incorporated 

 editorials from The Bee-keepers' Review, 

 and a portion of a series of articles by 

 Mr. Hutchinson on the subject of "Pro- 

 ducing Extracted Honey," that appeared 

 some time ago in these pages. This new 

 matter has been added to the old in such 

 a way that the whole reads like one con- 

 tinuous story. The new matter deals 

 with the question of extracting the honey, 

 of tiering up and extracting after the 

 harvest is over, securing workers for the 

 harvest, warming up the honey, uncap- 

 ping barrels and tanks, with quite an ex- 

 tended description of E. D. Townsend's 

 uncapping-box. The steam-heated un- 

 capping-knivesand power-driven extract- 

 ors received their fair share of attention, 

 for, in fact, the Hutchinson brothers test- 

 ed them quite thoroughly during the last 

 'hree or four years in their northern 

 apiaries. In fact, this whole chapter fair- 

 ly bristles with the experience of actual 

 field work. There were, in all. something 

 like fifteen pages added to this one chap- 

 ter. 



THREE GENTS ABOVE MARKET PRICE. 



Then we find a little further on, an en- 

 tirely new chapter on the subject of "De- 

 veloping a Mail-order Trade for Honey." 

 This is nothing more nor less than a re- 

 production of an article or articles that 

 appeared in Gleanings over a year ago. 

 It takes up the all-important question of 

 how to sell extracted honey, how to ad- 

 vertise, how to secure two or three cents 

 above the market for honey in original 

 packages. 



On page 145, under the head of "Foul 

 Brood" appears a discussion of the sub- 

 ject of European foul brood and its treat- 

 ment, especially how to cure without des- 

 troying either the brood or the combs. On 

 pages 154 and 155 is quite a little new 

 matter under the head of " Apiarian Ex- 

 hibits at Fairs." 



The chapter on "The Rendering of 

 Beeswax" is quite extensively revised. A 



recent editorial by Mr. Hutchinson des- 

 cribes the W. J. Manley method of render- 

 ing wax. As this method is clear up to 

 date in every particular, nearly all the old 

 matter was stricken out, and this new 

 matter was substituted. 



Some new matter was added to the 

 chapter of " Outdoor Wintering of Bees," 

 and on page 164 we find another new- 

 chapter entitled "Automatic Transferr- 

 ing." 



In the chapter on "The Influence of 

 Temperature in Wintering Bees " we find 

 some quite extensive revisions, taking up 

 the special question of how to build bee- 

 cellars at moderate cost. Here again wa 

 find the author drawing quite extensively 

 from his experience in building bee-cellars 

 in Northern Michigan. This one chapter, 

 to the one contemplating a bee-cellar, is 

 worth the price of the book many times 

 over. 



The remaining chapters contain here 

 and there some changes but no extensiva 

 revisions. 



The chapters "Fertilization of Queens 

 in Confinement." "Commercial Queen- 

 rearing," and "Ventilation of Bee Cellars" 

 are omitted from the new edition, either 

 because they were out of date or because 

 they conflicted with some of the author's 

 recent utterances as they appeared in The 

 Bee-keepers' Review. 



REDUCTIONS OF HRICE. 



Taking it all in all, the new edition is 

 entirely the work of Mr. W. Z. Hutchin- 

 son. While I have acted in the capacity 

 of reviser I have added no word of my 

 own except here and there to put in a, 

 connecting link in order that the old mat- 

 ter might join on smoothly to new. Tak- 

 ing it all in all, there have been added 

 between thirty and forty pages of entire- 

 ly new matter, and something like an 

 equal number have been stricken out, so 

 that the new edition will be about the 

 same size as the old one, but instead of 

 being sold at a price of $1.20 it will be 

 sold for an even dollar, postpaid. 



As a writer on bees Mr. Hutchinson has 

 few equals. For clearness of style and 

 accuracy of judgment he is second to 

 none. His enthusiasm shines forth on 

 every page. His selection of the new and 

 the useful from an extended discussion is 

 intuitive. The last edition of "Advanced 

 Bee Culture," as well as the new edition 

 before, is made up of the best ideas of 

 our best experts on bee culture, properly 

 classified and condensed by a master of 

 the art of boiling down discussions. 



I do not hesitate to say that this is one 

 of the most valuable books on bees that. 



