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Contents of this Number. 



Correspondence : 



Cause of Bee Dysentery 201 



Wintering of Bees in Canada 201 



Apiary of Mr. J. H. Robertson 201 



Prospect for Honey and Prices 202 



Dysentery as a Bee Disease . . 202 



Transferring Bees from Box Hives 202 



The Wintering of Bees in Minnesota 202 



Bee Dysentery and its Cause 202 



Bee-Keeping in Mississippi 203 



Convention Notes : 



Missouri Convention 203 



Editorial : 



Editorial Items 204 



The Care of Comb Honey 204 



Black Bees, and Bee-Culture in Texas — 204 



Test of Purity for Honey 204 



Parthenogenesis 204 



Strange Bees, etc 204 



Among oar Exchanges : 



Do not Neglect the Bees 205 



Curiosities of Red Clover 205 



The Honey Crop 205 



Increase bv Division 205 



Seasonable Advice 205 



Selections from Our Letter Box : 



BeeStings 205 



Bee-Keeping in Georgia 205 



The True Cause of Winter Losses of BeeB 205 



Good Prospect for Honey 205 



Bees Doing Well 205 



The Honey field 206 



Sour Honey Not Good for Winter Food... 206 



Fertile Workers 206 



Bees Building Up Now 206 



Wintered Well 206 



Good Honey Yield : 



Bees in Muskoka. Canada 206 



Wintered oh Summer stands 



Good Yield of Honey Expected 206 



Bees in the Highway, etc., a Nuisance 20t 



Old Queens 20f 



Swarming 20) 



A Chapter of Experience 2d 



Upper Ventilation 206 



Good, for a Beginner 206 



The Enlargement of the Bee Journal 206 



Cellar Ventilation, etc 2 



TheClover, etc 1 



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The Bee-Keeper's Guide; 



OK, 



MANUAL OF THE APIARY, 



By A. J. COOK, 



Of Lansing, Professor Of Entomology in the 

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3»© Pairea ; 133 Fine Illustrations. 



This is a new edition of Prof. Cook's Manual of 

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This work is a masterly production, and one that 

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Read the following opinions of the Book; 



All agree that it is the work of a master and of 

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1 think Cook's Manual is the best of our Ameri- 

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It appears to have cut the ground from under 

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Is a masterly production, and one that no bee- 

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Prof. Cook's valuable Manual has been my con- 

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I have derived more practical knowledge from 

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This book is just what everyone interested in 

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To all who wish to engage in bee-culture, a 

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My success has been so great as to almost aston- 

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This book is pronounced by the press and leading 

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 scientific work on modern bee management that 

 every experienced bee-man will welcome, and it is 

 essential to every amateur in bee-culture. It is 

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This work is undoubtedly the most complete 

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 of bees left untouched, and in the compilation of 

 the work Prof. Cook has bad the advantage of all 

 the previous knowlede of apiarists, which he uses 

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 It is the latest book on the bee. and treats of both 

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With Cook's Manual I am more than pleased. It 

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 richest reward awaits its author.— A. E. Wknzel. 

 It is a credit to the author as well the publisher. 

 I have never yet met with a work, either French 

 or foreign, which I like so much.— L'Abbe Du 

 Bois, editor of the Bulletin D' Apiculteur, France. 

 It not only gives the natural history of these in- 

 dustrious insects, but also a thorough, practical, 

 and clearly expressed series of directions for their 

 management; also a botanical description of honey 

 producing plants, and an extended account of the 

 enemies of bees.— Democrat, Pulaski, N. Y. 



We have perused with great pleasure this vad* 

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 best information on everything belonging to api- 

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 we say, obtain this valuable work, rend it carefully 

 and practice as advised.— Agriculturist, Quebec. 



It may safely be pronounced the most complete 

 and comprehensive of the several manuals which 

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 their handling in apiaries. The studies of the 

 structure of the bee, the different varieties, the 

 various bee products, and following these the 

 points of management, extending to the smallest 

 details, are allot high and practical value. Prof. 

 Cook lias presented the latest phases of progressive 

 bee-keeping, and writes of the themes discussed in 

 the light of his own experience.— Pacific Rural. 



Of the many excellent works which we have ex- 

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 the most valuable for the study of those who con- 

 template going into the business or are already 

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 not fail to achieve at least a reasonable degree of 

 success. The author addresses himself to the 

 work with a degree of enthusiasm which carries 

 the reader with him to the end.- Kansas Farmer. 



Cook's Manual of the Apiary holds in America 

 the same high rank, that is accorded in Germany 

 to the book of winch Dzlerzon Is the author; the 

 only difference being that Prof. Cook's Manual 

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 with the superiority of the practical American. 

 He refers in several instances to Darwin ; and 

 does not belong to that class which hates every- 

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