Prof. Cook's New Work. 



Within 20 days after this work was issued 

 from the press, 600 copies were disposed of 

 — a sale unprecedented in bee literature. — 

 We subjoin a few of the many notices the 

 Press lias been pleased to give it : 



Manual of the Apiary, by A. J Coolc, 

 Professor of Entomology in the Miehlsan 

 State Agricultural College. Second edition, 

 revised, enlarged, mostly i-e-written, and 

 copiously illustrated. Published by T. G. 

 Newman & Son, Chicago, III. Among the 

 numerous works on apiculture, we know of 

 none so valuable to every practical apiarist 

 as this handsome volume of 286 pages.— 

 Every point connected with the subject on 

 which it treats, is handled in a clear, ex- 

 haustive, yet pithy and entirely practical 

 manner. As we consider the work well 

 worthy of a more extended notice in a later 

 issue, we shall merely remark here that it 

 should be in the hands of every apiarist 

 who is seeking success by availing himself 

 of the latest and best information on his 

 business. — Rural New Yorker. 



It contains upward of 300 pages, has over 

 200 illustrations, and is the most thorough 

 work on the apiary ever published. It is 

 the only book which illustrates tiie various 

 bee plants.— X,a7ism(7 (Mich.) Republican. 



We are in possession of a copy of the 

 "Manual of the Apiary," by Prof. A. J. 

 Cook, of the Michigan Agricultural College, 

 and it is a work of such rare merit that we 

 want to tell our bee-keeping friends some- 

 thing about it. Prof. Cook is an entomolo- 

 gist, a botanist, a ready writer, a passionate 

 lover of the honey bee, and his new work 

 savors of all these qualities which are es- 

 sential to the writing of such a treatise on 

 bee-culture as the public demands. We 

 experienced great pleasure in reading the 

 invaluable works of Quinby, Langstroth, 

 and King of our own country, but since 

 these works were published, new discover- 

 ies have come to light, new methods have 

 come into practice, valuable inventions 

 have been made, and they fail to meet the 

 present wants of the successful apiarist.— 

 This new manual, however, fills these 

 wants and will be prized by the friends of 

 the bee— not only the practical bee-keeper, 

 but its contents are sucli as to be read with 

 pleasure by every one in any way inter- 

 ested in the little honey-gatherer. The 

 anatomy and physiology of the bee, its won- 

 derful iiabits and peculiarities, are fully 

 described ; descriptions of new utensils and 

 modern methods of managing the apiary 

 are given, and a more complete statement 

 regarding honey plants is made than was 

 ever before given by any writer. The illus- 

 trations are numerous and well executed, 

 the type is clear, the paper is of good 

 texture, and the binding is well done, all of 

 which reflects much credit on the publish- 

 ers, Thomas G. Newman & Son, Chicago, 

 111., who are the publishers of the Amkri- 

 can Bee Journal. No person can afford 

 to keen bees witliout a copy, which will be 

 mailed by the publishers oii receipt of . SI. 2.5 

 for cloth, and ^l.OO for paper covers.— Daily 

 Standard, New Bedford, Mass. 



After some preliminary remarks of a gen- 

 eral character, the first subject treated is the 

 natural history of the honey bee, including 

 its varieties, its anatomy and physiology, 

 and the origin and function of its products— 

 with 28 elegant engravings. Then follows 

 the care and management of the ap ary, 

 covering its location, structure of hives, 

 boxes and frames, the transference of 

 swarms, feeding and feeders, queen rearing, 

 increase of colonies, Italianizing, honey ex- 

 tracting, bee-handling, marketing honey, 

 honey plants, wintering bees, Ac, &c. — with 

 82 engravings. A careful and minute index 

 affoi'ds easy reference to any point on which 

 information may be desired. 



The whole constitutes the latest, as it is 

 also in many respects the fullest, most prac- 

 tical, and most satisfactory treatise on the 

 subject now before the public, and we do 

 not doubt it will meet with a large sale. — 

 Coxiiitry Oentieman. 



Thomas G. Newan & Son, publishers of 

 the American Bee Journal, in this city, 

 have issued a new aiul enlarged edition of 

 the " Manual of the Apiary," by A. J. Cook, 

 Professor of Entomology in the Michigan 

 State Agricultural College. The first edition 

 was given to the public less than two years 

 ago. and soon achieved an unexpected popu- 

 larity. With this encouragement the author 

 was induced to largely re-write and revise 

 the work before issuing a second edition. 

 Taking up first, the natural history of the 

 honey bee, he discusses its entomological 

 characteristics, its anatomy and physiology, 

 its natural methods of increase, and its pro- 

 ducts. Part II. is devoted to the care and 

 management of domesticated b'^es. Indivi- 

 dual experiences and apiarian writers have 

 been laid under contribution to furnish sug- 

 gestions and intelligence, and eminent apia- 

 rists and scientific journalists have ex- 

 pressed their approval of the book. The 

 present edition contains the latest develop- 

 ments of science and the most recent im- 

 provements connected with bee-culture and 

 honey-production, and is copiously illus- 

 trated. — Chicago Evening Jo urnal. 



A second edition of at least 2,000 copies, 

 added to the first edition of 3,000 copies, 

 means that there is an active demand for 

 this manual by the apiarists of the country. 

 We cannot help thinking that this is the 

 most complete and practical treatise on the 

 culture in Europe or America. Its 110 beau- 

 tiful illustrations could not have cost, in 

 engraving, less than $400, and its attractive 

 letter-press and general make-up will win 

 lots of friends for the art upon which it so 

 graphically treats. There are 20 chapters, 

 besides an introduction. The introduction 

 is lively and shows who may keep bees, the 

 inducement to bee-keeping, its recreation 

 and profit, its adaptation to women, its deli- 

 cious food for both mind and body. 



Part I., Chapter I., treats on the natural 

 history of the honey bfe, its place in the 

 animal kingdom, the class and order, ento- 

 mological, the family genus and species of 

 the queen bee, the varieties — such as the 

 German, the Italian, etc. Then, in Chapter 

 II., we have the anatomy and physiology, 

 the organs, the transformations, the three 

 kinds of bees in each colony, as the queen, 

 the drone and the neuters or workers. 



