GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



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BOOKS for BEE-KEEPERS and OTHERS. 



[Any of those Ixwks wjli be {onvar«lef\ by mail, post- 

 ■paid,\>\\ receipt of pvsceJ 



In Ijnying; books, ari iiy9:ry thing ebc, V7C are liable to 

 disappointment if we iwake » purdiase without seemg the 

 article. Adnijttinii: that the bookseller couM read all the 

 booka he offers, as he has tliem /or sale it WCTe hardly to 

 be expected he would be the one to iBention all the foults, 

 as well as good tbm<?s about a book. I very much desire 

 that thoae who favor me with their piitront^e, shall not 

 be disappointed, and therefore, I am goinp;to try to pre- 

 vent it by mentionins: all the faults so far as I ran, of the 

 books in this list. To illustrate :, I sent for Miniature Fruit 

 Garden some years ago -, I found it a foreii^n book that 

 advised transplanting- beanng trees every year or oftener. 

 I sent for a book telling ho w to hatch chickens artificJally ; 

 this book was advertised V>y Oi-ange Judd Co. as being 

 something new and very desirable ; the little it contained 

 was nearly ail devoted to puffing a patented machine, yet 

 the advertisememt would lead one to supjwse it told how 

 to make a hatching machine as nlainly as the Candy 

 Book tells how to make candy. Again, How 1 Made $;j50. 

 A Year With My Bees, proved to be an English work, 

 written long before the era of movable combs, and as bo 

 kind of a date can be found about the book it looks as if 

 the publishci-s had purposely tried to make it appear that 

 it was a new American work, and up with the times. 

 Now the book is well worth the money, but the purchas- 

 er should know just what he is getting. In the following 

 list, books that 1 approve I have marked with a *, those I 

 especially approve * * ; those that aro not up to the 

 times t ; books that contain but little matter for the 

 price, large type and much space between the lines X \ 

 foreign §. 



These hand books that tell us how to do things, not 

 only educate us, but they are oft«n the very best invest- 

 ment that one ever mak-^s, aiid the small amount they 

 cost, comes back many times every year if they are faith- 

 fully read. When we get interested, is just the time to 

 read up a subject. Wo hear of receipts for doing certain 

 things, being sold for many times the cost of these books 

 that contain the same thing and ever so much more, and 

 often with illustrations fully explaining the work. I nev- 

 er spent happier hours than in reading my poultry books 

 when I was a boy ; and while busy with my coops and 

 yards I not only avoided idleness and bad company but I 

 educated my hands in the use of tools, as well as my 

 mind in the science of profit and loss. Parents if your 

 children have any taste for these useful pretty haiidbooks, 

 is it not a dnty of yours to encourivge it by judicious pur- 

 chases ? 



3JOOK8 ESPECIALLY FOB BEE-KEEPEB3. 



Laugstroth on the Hive and Honey Bee**t S2 00 



Quinby's Mysteries of Bee- keeping**! 1 S^* 



Bee-keeper's Text Book*t muslin 75 



" " '• '• *t paper 40 



A Manual of Bee-keeping, by John Hunter*! 25 



Manual of the Apiary, by Prof. A. J. Cook*' 30 



This, although small, is the only book we have i« Amer- 

 ica that is entirely \\\> to the times ; the best for begin- 

 ners. 



How I Made $350 a Year with my Bees* t§ 25 



How to make Candy** 50 



Art of Saw-iiling*J 75 



Lumberman's Hand Book*** 10 



Fulkn-'s Grape Culturist*' 1 50 



MISCELLANEOUS HAND BOOKS. 



Ten Acres Enough** 1 25 



Pive Acres too Much'* 1 80 



Tim Bunker Papers* 1 50 



An Egg Farm, Stoddard** 50 



Window Gardening I 50 



Purdy 's Small Fruit 1 nstruclor* 25 



How to Use the Mici'oscoj)e 75 



Play and Profit in my Garden '' . 1 50 



"Our Digestion," by Dio Lewis** 2 00 



Onion Culture* 20 



Practical Floriculture* 1 50 



Gardf ning for Profit** 1 50 



Strawberry Culturist, Fuller* 20 



Small Fruit Culturist, Fuller- 1 50 



Forest Tree Culturist, Fuller* 1 50 



How to Build Hot-Houses, Louchar* 1 50 



'Draining for Profit and Health, Warring 1 50 



What I knoM' of l-'arming, Horace Greely 1 50 



Injurious Insects, Prof. A. J. Cook*** 10 



JIOOKS inAT I HAVE KEVER EXAMINEP, BUT THAT ARE 

 IN GOOD REPUTE. 



Broom Corn aud Brooms iwpcr .''>0 cloth 75 



Cider Maker's Manual, Buisl 1 50 



Amcricaji Pomology, Warder ,'! 00 



Canary B'rds paper 50 cloth 



Farmer'.^ Barn Book 



Pteiir 01t!';re, Fields 



American Bird Fanyier , 



American Weeds and Useful Plants ,..-. 



liement 's Rabbit Fancier ,......., 



Bommer's Method' <;f Making Manures - 



Burn's Architectural Drawing Book,.... 



Buit'h Veget.ablfis of America 



Cooke?) and (;ookmg Food for Domestic Animals... 



Copley s Piajn and Or!};nnental Alphabets 



Dana's M uck Manual 



I>arwin's Variations of Animals and Plants, 2 vols-. 



Gun, Rod, snd Saddle 



Harris (in the Pig 



How to Get fk Fa rm and Where to Find One 



How to Use the Piistol.. 



Jennings' Horse Trahiing Made Easy....... 



Jolmson's How Crops Feed. 



Johnson's How Crops Grow 



KMpparts V/heat Plant 



Leavitt's Facts Aboat Peat. 



Mrs. Cornelius's Young Housekeeper's Friend 



Phimmer's Carpenters' and BuiMer's Guide 



Skillful Housewife 



American Fruit Culturist, Thomas 



Cranberry Culture, Whit«... , 



A Simple Flower Garden, Barnard 



Farming by Inches, Bai-nard 



Gardening for Money " 



My Ten Rod Pann " , 



(Strawberry Garden " 



Carpentry Made Easy, Belf 



Fur, Fin, and Feather 



Pish Culture, Garlick 



How Plants Grow, Gray 



Manual of Botany and Lessons, Gray 



School and Field Book of Botany, Gray 



New Cook Book, Mrs. Hale 



My Farm of Edge wood 



American Angler, Norr is 



Rhododendrons, feind 



Landscape Gardening, Downing. 



Guenon on Milch Cows 



Sorgho, or the Northern Sugar Plant, Hedges 



My Vineyard at Lakeview 



Shooting on the Wing 



American Wheat Culturist, Todd 



Cotton Planters' Manual. Turner 



Practical Butter Book, Willard 



Youatt on the Hog 



Youatt on Sheep 



(harden Vegetables, Burr 



Fruits and Fruit Trees of Americit, Downuig 



Complete Works on Chemistry, Leihig 



Gardening for Ladies, Loudon 



Riley on the Mule 



Flax Culture (seven prize essays by practical growers) 



Peach Culture, l^'ulton's 



How To Paint, Gardnei' 



Gregory On Cabbages paper 



Gregory On Squashes paper 



Gregory On Onions paper 



Insects Injurious To Vegetation Plain, St (Kt.. 



With coloied plates, ?6 50 



Gardening For Pleasure, Henderson 



Hop Culture ; 



Jenny Jinie's C(X)k Book 



Cotton Culture, Lyman 



^Manual Of .Flax Culture and Maniifactur j 



Parsons On The Rose 



Potatoo Cidture, (prize essay) paper 



Money In The Garden, Quiiin 



Pear Culture For Profit, Quinn 



iVlatuial Oii The Culture Of Small Fruits, E. P. Roe 



Farm Iinpictiiciits Ami Machinery, Thomas 



Earth Cidscts, How To Make Tlieni, Warring 



Gardening For Tlie South 



Cranl)erry ("ultiu-e 



Practical Poultry Keeper, Wright 



Peat An(i its I'ses 



Hedges And Evergreens, Wanler 



Book On Birds, Holden 



Sorghum .\nd I ts Products 



Taxidermist's Manual 



Practical Tix)ut Culture 



Farming For Boys 



Silk (Jrowcr's Guide 



Paiiit<u', (iuiklor and Varni-iSier 



Mushroom tJulture 



The Farmer's Iteceipt Boc'-. 



The Mwlel Potatoe 



A pplc Culturist, Todd 



Willow Or Ozier Culture 



Youman's Household Srio"-'.-o, 



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