July, 191 1. 



American ^ec Jonrnal j 



221 



(4 



How to Keep Bees," a. 



BY 



Botsford Comstock. 



A simple book, written in a clear, every-day language, is much to be preferred, even if 

 it does not treat of quite so many little details, which interest only the professional bee- 

 keeper. Such is " How to Keep Bees." written by a yifted author, who made a start in bee- 

 keeping three different times, thus being afforded the opportunity of personally finding out 

 the difficulties and trials that beset the beginner with bees. It is a book written by an ama- 

 teur to amateurs, so eminently readable, that any one interested in the subject can sit down 

 and devour it clear through, as though it were a modern novel. The print is 'arge. and typo- 

 graphically as well as rhetorically, it is the peer of any such book now on the market. It is 

 bound in cloth, and contains 228 pages. 



There are 20 chapters in the book as follows: 



1. Why Keep Bees? 



2. How to Begin Bee-Keeping". 



3. The Location and Arrangrementof the Apiary 



4. The Inhabitants of the Hive. 



5. The Industries of the Hive. 



6. The Swarming: of Bees. 



7. How to Keep from Keeping: Too Many Bees. 



8. The Hive and How to Handle It. 

 ». Details Conceming^ Honey. 



10. Extracted Honey. 



11. Points About Beeswax. 



12. Feeding" Bees. 



18. How to Winter Bees. 



14. Rearing: and Introducing' Queens. 



15. Robbing in the Apiary. 



Itj. The Enemies and Diseases of Bees. 



17. The .Anatomy of the Honey-Bee. 



18. The Interrelation of Bees and Plants. 



19. Bee-Keepers and Bee-Keeplng. 



20. Bee-Hunting. 



There is also a bibliography and index. From a beginner's standpoint it is a complete 

 treatise on bees, and we can not do better than recommend it. Infact.it should tind a 

 place in every bee-keeper's library 



Our Offers of this Interesting Book. 



We mail this book for$i.io; or we club it with the American Bee Journal one year— 

 both for $1.75: or. we will mail it free as a premium lor sending us ? new subscriptions to the 

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Our Wax Circular and Bee-Supply Price-List Free upon application. 

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Gus Dittmer Company, - Augusta, Wisconsin. 



STANLEY is to the Front with BEES and QUEENS 



32 Years a Queen-Breeder. My Specialty is Choice Breeding 



Queens. 



Choice Breeding Queens, Golden, each, $;!.(I0 ; 3-Banded Italians, $2.00. 

 Golden and :5-Banded Tested, each, $1.2.",; dozen, $10.0(1. 

 Carniolan, Caucasian, and I'anats, each, $1.2-') : dozen, $10.00.- 

 Warranted Queens of the above Races, each, 7o cts. ; dozen, $7.00. 

 Virgin Queens of the above Strains, 25 cts. each. 



These Queens are sent in a Stanley Improved Introducing Cage. These Cages 

 are well worth what I ask for Queen and Cage. 



Arthur Stanley, Dixon, Lee Co., III. 



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 $2.oo: two-frame. S3.00: three-frame. 

 $4 25: '/i lb. bees. Si. 75 (add price of 

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516 North 8tli St, 



NORTH YAKIMA, WASH. 



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Journal when writing. 



Bee-Supplies 



We are Western Agents for lAtf 



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in .\rizona. He has been to great expense 

 in getting up a finely illustrated ?2-page book- 

 let, describing the tropics of Mexico as a 

 Bee-Man's Paradise, which is also superior 

 as a farming, stockraisingand fruit country. 

 Where mercury ranges between 55 and oi 

 Krost and sunstroke is unknown. Also a 

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