GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



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A YEAR'S WORK 

 IN AN OUT-APIARY 



. . OR . . 



An average of 114/^ pounds of honey 



per colony, in a poor season, 



and how it was done. 



First tdithn, Dec, IQOS, 1000 ctpiit. 

 Stctnd idition, Jan., JOOQ, 30OO cofiii. 



By G. M. DOOLITTLE 



Author of "Scientific Queen Rearing." 



Mention has already been made of this book in our reading-columns; but there is such 

 an unusual interest in it that we call attention to it once more. 



To understand the scope of the work better, please notice that it contains the following 

 chapters : 



Chapter I. An average of l\A}i pounds of section honey per colony in a poor season, and bow it was done. 

 U. Same, continued. 

 ■[ HI. Bloom time. 



IV. How to control sWarms when running for comb honey. 



V. A simple and reliable plan for making increase. 



VI. How to save annecessary lifting in talcing off filled supers of honey. 



VII. Taking off the surplus; what to do with the unfinished sections, preparation for the buckwheat flow 

 VIH. Progress in the supers. 



IX. A simple way to put on escapes without lifting. 



X. Taking off the Honey and storing it at the outyard. 



XI. Same, continued. 



XII. Closing words; further suggestions to the plans given in the preceding chapters. 



The author says in the preface: 



While the book is intended for the specialist, it is none the less desirable for the plain, every-day bee-keeper, with his 

 one home apiary, or for the amateur with his five to ten colonies; and because this book is for the specialist in bee-keeping 

 I have not gone into first principles or the A B C of oat pursuit, as the specialist has passed these rudimentary things long 

 ago. There are plenty of good books before one, and all who are desirous of learning of the foundation stractare, there- 

 fore, have no need of repeating here. The amateur should certainly procure, read, and digest one or more of these 

 books Upon entering the ranks of apiculture. 



What Mr. W. Z. Hutchinson, editor of The Bee-keepers' Re'vieiu, says: 



The 

 , A. I. 



" A Year's Work in an Out-apiary " is packed full of the most valuable information that has ever been X Root 

 given to bee-keepers. Like a few other books, it is a difficult one to review. It is so boiled down and ^ Co., 

 condensed that there is very little that can be left out. I am going to do the best I can at it, but I'll say / Medina, 

 right here that every bee-keeper would do much better to buy the book and read it in its entirety. / Ohloi 



While the book is really a' record of one year's work (12 visits) in an out-apiary. In which, during a 

 poor season (1905), 114^2 pounds of section honey per colony were secured, it is descriptive of a X For the en- 

 plan that was perfected during some ten or fiftten years of previous experimenting. To put the / closed remit- 



whole thing in a nut-shell, it tells bow to manage an ont-apiary for the most profitable pro- X tance 



duction of comb honey, and, at the same time, prevent all swarming. / please send G/<an- 



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