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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



May 1 



PRACTICAL WORKS ON BEE5 



THE books mentioned on this and the succeeding page are all devoted to practical bee culture, although a 

 few of them, as will be noticed 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. 



LANGSTROTH ON THE HONEY-BEE. Revised 

 by C. P. Dadant. The original work by Langstroth 

 will always remain a classic book on bee-keeping 

 along with that of Huber, Reaumur, and Swammer- 

 dam. This is the old book brought down to date by 

 one of America's foremost bee-keepers, C. P. Dadant, 

 who is also very well known in Europe as the great 

 exponent of movable frames— so much so that frarne 

 hives are sometimes known by his name in certain 

 European countries. The new edition is termed the 

 "Twentieth-Century Editionof Langstroth," and con- 

 tains nearly every thing one wishes to know about 

 bees, and forms a thick cloth-bound book of 575 pages, 

 beautifully illustrated. It is a standard work, both 

 here and in Europe, where it has been translated into 

 French and Russian. The bee-keeper who does not 

 like this book is hard to suit. Price by mail, $1.25; 

 by freight or express, 15 cts. less. 



FORTY YEARS AMONG THE BEES. Some 17 

 years ago Dr. C. C. Miller, of Marengo, 111., wrote an 

 unpretentious little book entitled, ' A Year Among 

 the Bees." This was charmingly written, and in a 

 style so simple and easy that it read more like a story 

 than a treatise on bees. The new book, in one sense 

 a revision of the old, because it uses some of the old 

 matter, is, to all intents and purposes, a brand-new 

 work with a title that certainly covers a large expanse 

 of time for one life, and that of a man who is one of 

 the best-posted bee-men in the United States— a prac- 

 tical bee-keeper, one who produces 

 large crops of honey. He has for 

 years read most thoroughly all the 

 literature on bees, both in Europe 

 and America. With all his practical 

 knowledge relating to the business 

 he is a college graduate, a graduate 

 of a medical school, and one who has 

 had a large experience as a journalist. 

 His training is just such as would en- 

 able him to write a book on bees; and 

 his last book from his best and ripest 

 exijerience is a masterpiece. It is 

 just as much a good story as the old 

 one, and just as interesting. It con- 

 tains over 300 pages and 100 beautiful half-tone pic- 

 tures from photos taken by the good doctor himself 

 while he was at his every-day work among the 

 bees. Price $1.00, postpaid. By freight or express, 

 10 cts. less. 



COOK'S MANUAL OF THE APIARY is a very 

 complete treatise on bees and bee-keeping, nothing 

 of any consequence being omitted by its author, Prof. 

 A. J. Cook, formerly of the University of Michigan. 

 Even the anatomy and physiology of the bee has been 

 very completely covered in this work, also bee botany, 

 and yet the practice' management of the apiary has 

 not been slighted in the least. The edition was com- 

 pletely revised and partly rewritten in 1902, hence it 

 is up with the times in every respect. Price $1.15, 

 postpaid; 15 cts. less by freight or express. 



BRITISH BEE-KEEPERS' GUIDE BOOK. By 

 T. W. Cowan. This is the leading English work on 

 practical bee-keeping in England, and as such has 

 had an immense sale, and has been republished in 

 French, German, Danish, Swedish, Russian, Spanish, 

 and Dutch. The work is condensed into 179 pages, 

 handsomely bound and well illustrated. Price $1.00 

 by mail; by freight or express, 5 cts. less. 



DOOLITTLE'S QUEEN-REARING. 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 read- 

 ers 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. 



THE HONEY-BEE. By T. W. Cowan. This is the 

 standard work on the anatomy and physiology of the 

 bee in the English language. It is packed with in- 

 formation on the subjects indicated, and expresses in 

 a condensed, accurate manner, every thing that has 

 been discovered by the scientists of all countries who 



have studied the life history of the honey-bee. The 

 book is beautifully bound, printed and illustrated in 

 the highest style of the art of book-making, and is in- 

 valuable to a bee-keeper. Last edition 1904, 220 pages. 

 Price $1.00 postpaid. By freight or express, 5 cts. less. 



QUINBY'S NEW BEE-KEEPING. Tnis. a mod- 

 ern edition of Quinby's Mysteries of Bee-keeping, is 

 one of the most useful books on apiculture ever writ- 

 ten. Mr. Quiuby was an intensely practical bee-keeper 

 and greatly assisted Mr. Langstroth in laying the 

 foundations of American apiculture. His son-in-law, 

 Mr. L. C. Root, revised the old book, giving it a new 

 title and bringing it in line with the times. It is a 

 simple, easily understood guide to bee-keeping. Cloth 

 bound, 271 pages, 1905; price $1.00 postpaid: by freight 

 or express, 10 cts. less. 



ADVANCED BEE CULTURE. By W. Z. Hutchin- 

 son. This, as its name implies, is a book giving the 

 latest methods of keeping bees, and it certainly does 

 what it claims to do. The author is himself a very 

 practical bee-keeper, but in addition he edits and pub- 

 lishes a bee magazine, where he, of course, gets a 

 first-hand knowledge of all that is taking place in the 

 bee-keepers' world. The book is embellished with a 

 number of beautiful illustrations which greatly en- 

 hance the value of it to many. The author is an ac- 

 complished photographer, and the pictures are there- 

 fore mostly original. This is a very useful work to 

 any one who is seriously thinking of becoming a spe- 

 cialist in apiculture, depending very largely upon the 

 bees to furnish bread and butter and food and raiment 

 for the bee-keeper and his family. There are no 

 theories in it. If one can afford to get only two or 

 three books, this certainly should be one of them. 

 Price $1.10 postpaid; by freight or express, 10 cts. less. 



HOW TO KEEP BEES. By Anna Botsford Com- 

 stock. This is a charmingly written manual for ama- 

 teurs and beginners, describing in the clearest lan- 

 guage all necessary details which are so confusing to 

 a novice. The authoress combines enthusiasm, liter- 

 ary ability, and a knowledge of bee-keeping into a 

 goodly volume. Having herself made a start in the 

 bee-business more than once, she fully appreciates 

 the perplexities of the situation and makes provision 

 accordingly. The book is well suited to the wants of 

 the suburban dweller who wishes a hobby which will 

 give something by way of return for labor and capital 

 expended, or those who wish to keep only a small 

 apiary either for pleasure or profit. If there is any 

 better book than this for the purpose indicated, we 

 do not know of it. Cloth bound, 228 pages, $1.10 post- 

 paid; by freight or express, 10 cts. less. 



A MODERN BEE-FARM, by Simmins, is one of 

 those books which will cause you to sit up and take 

 notice if you are a real live bee-keeper with lots of 

 formic acid in your blood. The author is an English 

 bee-keeper of note, who not only knows and under- 

 stands bee culture in his own home land, but is as 

 well an earnest student of American apicultural 

 methods. He was the first man in the field with a 

 non-swarming system of bee-management, and is 

 otherwise a very original thinker on all that pertains 

 to bees. He is not very orthodox in his views, but 

 his book is all the better for that, seeing he wants to 

 take us out of the ruts. You can read the book right 

 straight through, in the long winter evenings, as it 

 runs along like a narrative or a novel. Cloth bound, 

 430 pages, 1904; price $2.00 postpaid; by freight or ex- 

 press, 15 cts. less. 



THE IRISH BEE-GUIDE, by Digges, is, as its name 

 implies, a guide to the bee-keeping industry of Ireland. 

 This is a closely printed, well-bound book of 220 pages 

 with excellent illustrations on fine paper. It would 

 be useful to any one who wishes to become acquainted 

 with the status of bee-keeping in the old land. Price 

 $1.00 postpaid; by freight or express, 5 cts. less. 



AMERIKANISCHE BIENENZUCHT, by Hans 

 Buschauer, is a bee-keeper's hand-book of 138 pages, 

 which is just what our German friends will want. It 

 is fully illustrated, and neatly bound in cloth. Price 

 $1.00; by freight or express, 5 cts. less. 



Send orders to your i^earest dealer. 



