A B C of Bee Culture. 



iS().) r.I»ITI(»\. TU1-: ONLY eVCI.OI'EDIA (>\ BEES— 475 I>AGES. 



Over 1,000 Copies Already Sold. 



The demand for this work has bcoiiie so 

 great that the preceding edition, consisting of 

 [0,ooo copies, was exhausted some months be- 

 fore the new one could be gotten out, and in the 

 six months intervening, something like looo 

 copies of the new work have been sold, and that 

 even before it was out of the press. This, the 

 latest edition, reaches the 67,000 mark, and is in 

 many respects very much superior to any pre- 

 vious edition, in typographical appearance and 

 quantity of new subject-matter and general re- 

 vision of old subjects, as we are now building 

 upon the knowledge and experience of these 

 latter days, when such wonderful strides are be- 

 ing made in the arts and sciences. 



A large number of the subjects have been re- 

 written; and among them may be named Arti- 

 ficial Honey-comb, Comb Foundation, Comb 

 Honey, Contraction, Joul lirood, Queen-rearing, 

 Reversing, Vinegar and Wax. The new sub- 

 jects incorporated in this particular edition, and 

 which do not appear in the older books, are 

 Apis Dorsata, Hives, Honey. Honey on Commis- 

 sion, Honey as a Food, Honey-peddling, Willow- 

 herb, Weight of bees, entirely new Preface, and 

 a new Introduction. Nearly all the other re- 

 maining subjects have been largely rewritten or 

 revised in places, so that the whole l>ook is prac- 

 tically an entirely new work. The subjects of 

 Comb F'oundation, Comb Honey, Hives, and Hon- 

 ey have received special attention in the new 

 work, having Ijeen entirely rewritten. Strange 

 as it may seem, no previous edition of the book 

 contained the subject of Hives or Honey. The 

 former was discussed in a general way under 

 the head of Hive-making; but the new subject 

 deals not with how to make hives, but with the 

 principles of construction. Following a di.scu.s- 

 sion of size and shape of frames, hives 

 and their various styles and makes are described, 

 and the various principles are illustrated by the 

 .several forms of the I,angstroth, including the 

 latest Dovetailed; next are the Heddon, the 

 Uanzenbaker, and the Dadant hives. The 

 (question of large and small hives, and the rela- 

 tion that the locality has upon the matter, is 

 very exhaustively treated. I<ast of all, double- 

 walled (or wintering I hives are described in full. 

 The whole .subject is discussed inipartially, as 

 we believe, leaving the intelligent reader to se- 

 lect such hive as his loc lity and his particular 

 notions may recjuire. "fioney,'' another new 

 subject, is considered, both as food and as medi- 

 cine. 



The new book, like the old, is arranged 

 on the plan of a cyclopedia, for readv refer- 

 ence; and, in addition, bold headlines lines iii- 

 dicating the sub-heads are found on nearly ev- 

 ery page. 



As the name indicates, the book is written 

 principally for beginners, and covers exhaustive- 

 ly every subject necessary for the successful 

 management of bees, .so that ven the advanced 

 bee-keeper will find much that is new and use- 

 ful. 



After the twenty pages of introductory matter 

 there are 340 pages devoted to a general treat- 

 ment of the subject of apicultiire. 1^'ollowing 

 this, and continuing for M pag s. is a series of 

 answers to as many knotty r)uestions that are 

 propounded bv beginners. Next is a glossary 

 of 3 pag s, defining the terms peculiar to bee- 

 keeping. Then for 11 pages more there are re- 

 views and comments bv two eminent bee-keei> 

 ers— G. M. Doolittleand Dr. C. C. Miller, on the 

 general subject-matter contained in the body of 

 the book. This is indeed an interesting and 

 valuable featur ■. Th • remaining portion of tlie 

 book is taken up with biographical sketches 

 occupying 32 pages, and a picture-gallery con- 

 taining pictures, with a short description, of 

 .some of the most important a])iaries of the 

 world. Last of all is the index, comprising 

 nine pages. 



The entire work contains 475 pages and nearly 

 as many engravings, a verj' large part of whicli 

 belong to the modern half-tone cla.ss, showi u 

 nature and art as they really are. Something; 

 like 50 new full-ijage half-tone engravings have 

 been put into the new book, most of which are ■ 

 printed on what is known as enamel book' paper 

 — the finest there is .sold. 



No pains have been spared to make this the 

 fullest and most up-to-date bee-book that we 

 have ever gotten out; and the very fact that near- 

 ly a thousand copies were sold even before the 

 edition left the press, goes to show that the gen- 

 eral bee-keeping 1 ublic appreciates our eftorts 

 in something really exhaustive and up to date. 



No matter if you have an ohl edition, you can 

 hardly afford not to have this new work. ' While 

 it is, in a sense, built on the old, it takes in all 

 the latest and most modern ideas and practices 

 known to bee-keepir»g. 



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