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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



Dec. 15 



Practical Wcrks 



en Bees 



'nr^HE books mentioned below, as well as those on the next two pages, are all 

 -■■ devoted to practical bee culture, although a few of them, as will be noted 

 by their descriptions, have more or less scientific value. A somewhat careful 

 reading of the descriptions below will undoubtedly show any one just what book 

 will suit him best. If several books are to be selected covering a wide range of 

 subjects, the following list may be helpful in deciding what you want: A B C of 

 Bee Culture, Langstroth on the Honey-Bee, Advanced Bee Culture. Or this list: 

 How to Keep Bees, Forty Years Among the Bees, A Modern Bee-Farm. 



Cook's Manual of the Apiary 



is a very complete treatise on bees and bee-keeping, nothing 

 of any consequence being omitted by its author. Prof. A. J. 

 Cook, formerly of the University of Michigan. Evan the 

 anatomy and physiology of the bee has been very completely 

 covered in this work, also bee botany, and yet the practical 

 management of the apiary has not been slighted in the least. 

 The edition was completely revised and partly rewritten in 

 1902, hence it is up with the times in every respect. Price 

 $1.15, postpaid; 15 cts. less by freight or express. 



British Bee-I(eepers' Guide Book. 



By T. W. Cowan. This is the leading English work on 

 practical bee-keeping in England, and as such has had an 

 immense sale, and has been republished in French, German, 

 Danish, Swedish, Russian, Spanish, and Dutch. The work 

 is condensed into 179 pages, handsomely bound and well 

 illustrated. Price $1.00 by mail; by freight or express, 5 

 cts. less. 



Dooiittle's Queen-rearing. 



This is practically the only comprehensive book on queen- 

 rearing now in print. It is looked upon by many as the 

 foundation of modern methods of raising queens wholesale. 

 Mr. Doolittle has an entertaining way of writing on bee 

 subjects which enables his readers to follow him with 

 pleasure, even if they never intend to raise queens at all. 

 Bound in leatherette, 124 pages, 75 cts. postpaid; by freight 

 or express, 5 cts. less. 



Wax Craft. 



By T. W. Cowan. We are now in position to take orders 

 for the above book. It is elegantly bound and beautifully 

 printed. See review by VV. K. Morrison in our Sept. 1st 

 issue. Price $1.00 postpaid anywhere. 



The Irish Bee-Guide, 



by Digges, is, as its name implies, a guide to the bee- 

 keeping industry of Ireland. This is a closely printed, well- 

 bound book of 220 pages with excellent illustrations on fine 

 paper. It would be useful to any one who wishes to become 

 acquainted with the status of bee-keeping in the old land. 

 Price $1.00 postpaid; by freight or express, 5 cts. less. 



A Modern Bee-Farm, 



by Simmins, is one of those books which will cause you to 

 sit up and take notice if you are a real live bee-keeper with 

 lots of formic acid in your blood. The author is an English 

 bee-keeper of note, who not only knows and understands 

 bee culture in his own home land, but is as well an earnest 

 student of American apicultural methods. He was the first 

 man in the field with a non-swarming system of bee- 

 management, and is otherwise a very original thinker on all 

 that pertains to bees. He is not very orthodox in his views, 

 but his book is all the better for that, seeing that he wants 

 to take us out of the ruts. You can read the book right 

 straight through, in the long winter evenings, as it runs 

 along like a narrative or a novel. Cloth bound, 430 pages, 

 1904; price $2.00 postpaid; by freight or express, 15 cts. less. 



Amerikanische Bienenzucht, 



by Hans Buschauer, is a bee-keeper's hand-book of 138 

 pages, which is just what our German friends will want. It 

 is fully illustrated, and neatly bound in cloth. Price $1.00; 

 by freight or express, 5 cts. less. 



The Honey-Bee. 



By T. W. Cowan. This is the standard work on the an- 

 atomy and physiology of the bee in the English language. 

 It is packed with information on the subjects indicated, and 

 expresses in a condensed, accurate manner every thing that 

 has been discovrred by the scientists of all countries who 

 have studied the life history of the honey-bee. The book is 

 beautifully bound, and printed and illustrated in the highest 

 style of the art of book-making, and is invaluable to a bee- 

 keeper. Last edition, 1904, 220 pages. Price $1.00 post- 

 paid. By freight or express, 5 cts. less. 



Quinby's New Bee-keeping. 



This, a modern edition of Quinby's Mysteriesof Bee-keep- 

 ing, is one of the most useful books on apiculture ever writ- 

 ten. Mr. Quinby was an intensely practical bee-keeperand 

 greatly assisted Mr. Langstroth in laying the found itions of 

 American apiculture. His son-in-law, Mr. L. C. Root, re- 

 vised the old book, giving it a new title and bringing it in 

 line with the times. It is a simple, easily understood guide 

 to b<-e-keeping Cloth bound, 271 pages, 1905; price $1.00 

 postpaid; by freight or express, 10 cts. less. 



The A. I Root Company, Medina, Ohio 



