known to the professional and amateur bee-keepers. There is 

 scarcely a practical method or device known to the bee-keepers 

 of the country that is not here described. Besides the immense 

 amount of valuable material gathered through extensive travel, 

 the work has been enriched with the choicest material that has 

 appeared in the columns of Gleanings in Bee Culture, an illustrated 

 semi-monthly by the same authors. 



Besides the matter relating to methods and devices, the book 

 contains a complete dictionary of apicultural terms, and a picture- 

 gallery comprising a list of the choicest illustrations that have 

 appeared in Gleanings in Bee Culture for the last ten years. 



Prices, cloth bound, $1.50; full leather, $2.50; half leather, $2.25. 

 When sent by freight or express, 25 cents less. The editions bound 

 in full and half leather include the bee-models, with key, bound in. 



FOREIGN EDITIONS OF THE A B C— Carefully translated 

 editions of this complete cyclopedia of bee-keeping may now be 

 had in the German and F^-ench languages. The German edition 

 (ABC DER BIENENZUCHT) sells for $2.00 in paper and $2.50 

 in cloth binding. In French (A B C de L'APICULTURE) may be 

 had in cloth for $2. By freight or express deduct 20 cents from 

 the above prices. 



OTHER PRACTICAL WORKS ON BEES. 



The books mentioned on this page 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 care- 

 ful 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: ABC and X Y Z of Bee 

 Culture (see preceding page). Langstroth on the Honey-bee, Ad- 

 vanced Bee Culture. Or this list: How to Keep Bees, Forty Years 

 Among the Bees, A Modern Bee Farm. 



LANGSTROTH ON THE HONEY-BEE. By C. P. Dadant. 



The bee-keeper who does not like this book is hard to suit. The 

 present volume is termed the "Twentieth Century Edition," and 

 contains a vast fund of information on all subjects relating to prac- 

 tical bee culture. It has long been recognized as a standard work, 

 and should be found in the library of every progressive bee-keeper. 

 It is well illusti^ated. and has 575 pages. I'rice by mail, $1.25; by 

 freight or express, 15 cts. less. 



FORTY YEARS AMONG THE BEES. By Dr. C. C. Miller. 

 This is another standard book of 300 pages and 100 illustrations, 

 written by a specialist with an experience of more than forty years. 

 The author has read not only all of the literature on bees pub- 

 lished in this country, but much of that published in Europe, and 

 is a recognized authority. Price by mail, $1.00; by freight or 

 express, 10 cts. less. 



MANUAL OF THE APIARY. By Prof. A. J. Cook. This is a 

 very complete treatise on bees and bee-keeping, and is particularly 

 valuable where one is interested in the anatomy and physiology 

 of the bee, which has been very completely covered in this work. 

 It is also valviable for its chapter on honey-plants, or bee botany: 

 540 pages with good illustrations. Price by mail, $1.15; 15 cts. less 

 by freight or express. 



DOOLITTLE'S QU EEN- REARI NG. 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. 

 Cloth bound, 124 pages, $1.00 postpaid; by freight or express, 5 

 cts. less. 



