M 



THE 



BEE-KEEPER'S DIRECTORY, 



THEORY AND PEACTICE OF 



BEE CULTURE, 



IN ALL ITS DEPARTMENTS, 



THE RESULT OF EIGHTEEN TEARS PERSONAL STUDY OF THEIR 

 HABITS AND INSTINCTS. 



BY J. S. HAKBISON, 



PBACTICAL APIAKIAN. 



WITH AN INTRODUCTORY ESSAY BY 0. C. WHEELER, 



Corresponding Secretary of the California State Agricultural Society. 

 * " OF THB ^V 



UNIVERSITY 1 



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Embellished with Eighty Illustrations 



SAN FRANCISCO: 

 H. H. BANCROFT AND COMPANY 



1861 . 



