1909 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTUKE 



17 



A YEAR'S WORK 

 IN AN OUT-APIARY 



. . OR . . 



An average of 114^2 pounds of honey 



per colony, in a poor season, 



and how it was done. 



First tdition, Dec, IQoS, 1000 ofits. 

 Sicend edition, Jan., IQOQ, 3000 cofles. 



By G. M. DOOLITTLE 



Author of " Scientific Queen Rearios." 



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 1. An averaze of 114M pounds of section honey per colony in a poor season, and bow it was done. 



II. Same, continued. 



III. Bloom time. 



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

 7. A simple and reliable plan for making increase. 



VI. How to save unnecessary liftine in talcing off filled supers of honey. 



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



VIII. 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 

 ( have not gone into first principles or the A B C of our 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 structure, 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' Revieiv, says: 



Tha 

 , 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 X 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 X Medina, 

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



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

 poor season (1905), 11454 pounds of section hoaey per colony were secured, it is descriptive of a X For the en- 

 plan that was perfected during some ten or fifteen years of previous experimenting. To put the X closed remii- 



whole thing in a nut-shell, it tells how 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/wn- 



ings (1 yr. or 6 



SPECIAL OFFER NO. Dl: / - '«> 



CLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE, one year (new or renewal subscriptions), $1 .00 



One copy of A YEAR'S WORK IN AN OUT-APIARY .50 



Total $1.50 



OUR PRICE for the above 



SPECIAL OFFER NO. D2: 



CLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE, six month's trial 

 One copy of A YEAR'S WORK IN AN OUT-APIARY 



Tot.ll S . 



BOTH for SO cents 



If you are already a subscriber to Gleamings, and your subscription is 

 paid, and you want to get the book, take advantage of offer No. DT 

 by oraering the book for yourself and a six month's trial ioGlbanings 

 for someoneof your bee-keeping friends who is not now a subscriber. 



THE A. I. ROOT CO., Medina, O. 



$1.00 



Send Doolittle's book, my address 

 below: 



IJ Gleaningi is to be sent to same farty as hook, 

 sign only in lasJ two blank lines. 



