a certain beekeeping problem, but will in each instance give a single simple 
and proved method. To give a choice of several methods serves only to 
confuse the beginner. 
The reader will not expect to find treated herein such subjects as 
the anatomy and physiology of the bee, botany of honey-producing flora, 
queen-rearing, wax and comb production, pollination, honey chemistry, the 
history of the craft and its advancement, nor the commercial and food 
phases of honey. This booklet will confine itself to getting the beginner 
started in the care of bees and production of honey, and leave for his 
later experience and enthusiasm the scientific and technical phases of the 
subject. 
That the path of many a beginner in beekeeping may be made smoother 
and shorter and straighter by this little book, and the stings and disap- 
pointments made very much fewer, is the hope of the author of this primary 
book. 
H. G. ROWE. 
