1907 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



813 



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1907 



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How to Keep Bees 



By Anna Botsford Comstock 



228 pages. 32 pages of illustrations. 



A charmingly written manual describing clear- 

 ly and in detail the outtit. tirst steps, and meth- 

 ods. The author's well-known literary ability 

 has combined with her enthusiasm for a subject 

 to produce a very unusual volume. It is a hand- 

 book for those who keep bees for happiness and 

 honey, and incidentally for money. It serves as 

 well as an introduction to the more extended 

 manuals already in the field. " Finally with all 

 due deference to the authors of the excellent 

 books on bee culture which we have already, my 

 opinion is that this new book, ' How to Keep 

 Bees,' is the best one for a betrinner, or one who 

 does not wish or expect to keep more than a 

 dozen colonies, that has yet come before the 

 world." — A. I. Boot, in Gleanings, July 1, 1906. 



Chap. 1, " Why Keep Bees," urges honey, per- 

 haps money, recreation, love of nature study, 

 and the need of bees in " a perfect s^rarden," as- 

 good reasons for keeping bees. The second 

 chapter tells "how to begin " in a small way, 

 and we may get all the necessary detailed in- 

 formation for management from later chapters, 

 arranged in order of demand for information. 



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A series of booklets on bee subjects by E. L 

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 ing world as "Swarthmore. " These books are 

 full of the most valuable information. The 

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 of as the most important innovation in bee-keep- 

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INCREASE. The first of the series. Anyone 

 desirmg to enlarge his apiary should learn the 

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BABY NUCLEI. The using of little frames 

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SIMPLIFIED QUEEN-REARING. Revised 

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