BOOKS ON BEE-KEEPING. 



The bee-keeper who would be down-to-date and progressive will 

 find in a recount of the experiences of others the very suggestions 

 he needs for saving time and money. Verv few other occupations 

 have been blest with so many well written books covering the 

 pursuit in its many different phases. To bee-keepers are offered 

 authoritative works at a minimum of expense and the opportunity 

 to gain knowledge in this satisfying way should not be neglected. 



For the benefit of those who wish to purchase other books on 

 bee-keeping — covering the subject in a general way or some phase 

 of the work in partacular — we have compiled the following list. 

 These books may be had at the prices named from THE A. I. 

 ROOT CO., Medina, Ohio, the publishers of the volume in which 

 this arrouncement appears, or from dealers in bee-keepers' sup- 

 plies everywhere. 



THE ABC AND X Y Z OF BEE CULTURE. 



A. I. and E. R. Root. The latest edition 

 • f this work is the most complete of any 

 liee-book that has ever been issued in the 

 English language. While it is for the be- 

 ginner, it may be read with profit by the 

 ;tdvanced bee-keeper. Its sale is so large 

 that neither time nor money are spared to 

 !:eep this book fully abreast with the times. 

 In the latest edition some scientific and 

 technical matter as well as the practical 

 has been added to its pages. It has been 

 most carefully edited and revised. Its 

 authors and publishers feel that, more than 

 fver, it is a safe and reliable guide to bee- 

 keeping. Nearly 130,000 copies in the Eng- 

 lish language alone have been sold. It has 

 lieen translated into French and German. 



In this edition there is a large number of 

 half-tone reproductions from what might be 

 called moving-pictures, showing various 

 i^teps in the processes for handling bees. 

 While a detailed description goes with the 

 separate views showing each step, yet one 

 can almost learn how to handle bees by 

 simply looking at the series of photographs. 

 Under the head of "Frames, to Manipulate," for example, there are 

 a large number of new engravings that show not only the method 

 of handling frames but handling hives and bees in such a way 

 as to do the work with the greatest economy of labor, with few 

 or no stings, and with but little fatigue. 



The new methods of queen-rearing have been carefully reviewed, 

 and the main points incorporated in the new edition, so that the 

 practical bee-keeper who possesses a copy will have the best ideas 

 of the subject constantly by his side for reference. 



The new methods of wax-production are treated in an exhaustive 

 fashion, and as this subject is now of more importance than 

 formerly, more space has been devoted to it. 



The new power-driven automatic extractors are amply illus- 

 trated and described. The subject of diseases has received entirely 

 new treatment to keep pace with new discoveries of the last few 

 year'^. The laws relating to bees have for the first time received 

 full treatment. No other bee-book treats of this very important 

 subject. The divisible-brood-chamber hive and the subject of 

 swarm control have received special attention. Honey, sugar, 

 nectar, and glucose, written up by a United States government 

 chemist, are carefully defined in accordance with the demands of 

 our new pure-food laws. 



The authors have traveled thou.sands of miles in the United 

 States, with notebook and camera, and have endeavored to incor- 

 porate in the pages of this volume all the latest and best practices 



