PREFACE, 
ITH few exceptions, the instructions contained 
rar herein will be confined to the Author’s own 
practical experience, which has extended over 
more than forty years of close observation.* The reader 
will therefore have the benefit of a lengthened and varied 
experience, and by following a recognized system, there 
will be little possibility of the novice being confused by the 
usual multiplicity of ideas upon any one subject. When 
the beginner has mastered the present system he will then 
be in a position to use his own judgment in selecting the 
good and leaving out the errors of others. 
The Author does not hesitate to say that he has himself 
learned more by his failures than by success, in that where 
he has failed there has been a direct incentive to overcome 
such difficulty; and as the result, some of the most 
important methods of management have been brought 
about, while time and labour-saving implements have 
been devised ; all of which will be found invaluable to 
the Apiarist of the present day. 
It has been the Author’s utmost endeavor to place the 
management of Bees before the novice in as clear and 
straightforward a manner as possible. He knows full well 
how difficult it is for one more advanced in the science 
to fully expose every detail of procedure, and how equally 
difficult it is for those just entering the ranks to grasp 
many of the details which go to make up the grand total 
of success; hence the reason why some apparently simple 
* Any reader desiring to study the complete, anatomy and 
physiology of the hive bee should secure the works of Cheshire or 
Cowan. 
