.Tune, 1917 GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



BOOKS AND BULLETINS 



489 



"MONEY IN BEES" is the title of a 

 cliariiiing book that has come to us from 

 under the Southern Cross, far-away Austral- 

 asia. It is from the pen of Tarlton-Ray- 

 ment, an Australasian beeman of no ordi- 

 nary ability. Space will not permit an ex- 

 tended resume; but a word from the intro- 

 duction will prove illustrative. Mr. W. S. 

 Pender says of the book, in the introduc- 

 tion: "Australasian conditions are in many 

 ways peculiar, so that works applicable to 

 other lands are often ineffective here. The 

 author has given us the results of his years 

 of interesting experiences, and has proved 

 in his own ajjiaries all that he has written, 

 having made apiculture a profitable busi- 

 ness." The illustrations are the creations 

 of the author's own hand and brain; nor are 

 they inferior for being "home-made." 

 They prove him as artistic as practical. His 

 originality, too, is shown on many a page 

 and in many a paragraph. He has given a 

 signal proof of his individuality in the 

 treatment accorded the eucalypts, those nec- 

 tariferous giants of the Austt-alasian forests. 

 The wattles are also fully treated and illus- 

 trated. In his entire botanical section he 

 undoubtedly breaks new ground, in that he 

 is the first beeman to attempt anything of 

 the sort for his country. It is the acute and 

 shrewd observations of the man that wake 

 the reader up to the fact that he is reading 

 the work of a real live apiarist and thinker. 

 We wish we had space to illustrate this point. 

 The volume is a real addition to the apicul- 

 tural literature of the world. 



"BEES AND HOW TO KEEP THEM" is 

 a bulletin (No. 26) by F. W. Sladen, Domin- 

 ion Apiarist, published at Ottawa, Ont., 

 under the direction of the Minister of Agri- 

 culture, Ottawa, Ont. There are 56 pages, 

 40 excellent illustrations, two of them full- 

 page size, and all wonderfully clear. Espe- 

 cially worthy of note are those of the clo- 

 vers, goldenrod, and fireweed. The manipu- 

 lations of most of the work in the beeyard 

 are illustrated from life, and so clear that 

 "he who runs may read" and know. Mr. 

 Sladen, the author, is a scientist as well as 

 a writer, a practical apiarist as well as a 

 close student of nature, and thus eminently 

 qualified to produce a bulletin like this. 

 The brief introduction reads in part: "The 

 purpose of this bulletin is threefold — to 

 point out the advantages of beekeeping; to 

 give, very briefly, reliable advice to the be- 

 ginner; and to show to those who are keep- 

 ing bees in the old-fashioned or neglectful 

 way how their profits may be doubled or 

 trebled by the adoption of modern meth- 

 ods. ' ' Starting with the saying, ' ' The re- 

 sources of Canada are inexhaustible," Mr. 

 Sladen handles the topic in such a masterful 

 way that when we lay the booklet aside we 

 feel he has made good his promises in the 



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