1909 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



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. I 



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Tint tditnn, Dec, /Qo8, lOOO c»pits. t 



Stcond edition, Jan., IQOQ, 3000 tofiti. 



By G. M. DOOLITTLE i 



Author of " Scientific Queen Rearinz." - . 



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 average of 114?4 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 nmning for comb honey, 

 r. A simple and reliable plan for making increase. 



VI. How to save unnecessary liftinz in taking off filled supers of honey. 



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



VIII. Progress in the supers. 



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



X. Takicg ofi the Honey and rcoring it at the outyard. 



XI. Same, continued. 



XII. Closicg 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 our piusuit, 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 ceruinly procure, read, and digest one or more of these 

 books upon entering the ranks of apiculture- 



What Mr. W. Z. Hutchinson, editor of T/te Bee-keepers' Re'vieiv, says: 



" A Year's Work in an Gut-apiary " is packed full of the most valuable information that his ever been 

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

 condensed that there is very litile that can be left out. I am going to do the best I can at it, but III say 

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

 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), 11454 pounds of section hooey per colony were secured, it is descriptive of a ^ For the en- 

 plan that was perfected during some ten or fift»en years of previous experimenting. To put the y closed remit- 



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



ductioo of comb honey, and, at the same lime, prevent all swarming. X please send G/^.:n- 



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