April, 1919 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULT V K E 



BOOKS AND BULLETINS 



"Practical Que/en-rearing" is the title of a new 

 book of 100 pages on queen-rcarin?, by Frank C. 

 Pellett of the American Bee Journal. Mr. Pellett 

 has traveled quite extensively over the United States, 

 and has interviewed some of the most extensive 

 queen-breedeirs of the country. He has given all 

 their different, methods with copious illustrations. 

 Besides taking up queen-rearing in particular, he 

 discusses races of bees, the story of the queen and 

 drone, and improvement of stock. Then he takes 

 up equipment for queen-rearing, methods of the 

 different breeders, closing up with a discussion of 

 the very important subject, the spread of disease 

 from the queen-rearing yard. The editor has gone 

 over 4iis work, and, so far as he can see, it is 

 orthodox and correct in teaching. He could not 

 help noting the absolute omission of E. L. Pratt and 

 his methods of raising queens — a man known in 

 former days as "Swarthniore." Next to Doolittle, 

 Mr. Pratt did, perhaps, as much to develop modern 

 queen-rearing methods as any other man in the 

 Ignited States. Wo are assured by Mr. Pellett that 

 the omission of Mr. Pratt's name, whose methods, 

 in modified form, are seen all thru the book, was 

 unintentional and an oversight. 



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