ii Preface 
This book is not written as a means to such an end, and 
I shall at all times be pleased to explaim by letter any point 
the reader may not quite understand, providing always that 
my correspondent encloses a stamped addressed envelope for 
a reply. 
I am indebted to and hereby express my thanks for 
assistance rendered by Mr. F. W. Harper for the line 
drawings contained in this book, as well as the design upon 
the cover, also for the loan of blocks from Mr. O. C. Jones, 
Messrs. Jas. Lee and Son, and Mr. W. P. Meadows. 
If this book is the means of adding to the ranks of efficient 
bee-keepers, and enables those already trying to follow the 
craft with limited knowledge to do better, so that the working 
class may obtain more creature comforts with the money thus 
obtained, instead of allowing the foreigner to supply our 
markets with honey, thus diverting the cash he has hitherto 
taken from these islands into its proper place—the pocket of 
the Britisher—my labour will not have been in vain. 
WILLIAM HERROD-HEMPSALL. 
Luton, 
July 31, 1915. 
