CONTENTS 



INTEODUCTION. 



Who May Keep Bees 11 



Specialists 11 



Amateurs 11 



Who are Specially Interdicted 12 



Inducements to Bee-Keeping 12 



Recreation 12 



Profit 13 



Excellence as an Amateur Pursuit.^ 15 



Adaptation to Women 15 



Improves the Mind and Observation 17 



Yields Delicious Food 17 



What Successful Bee-Keeping Requires 18 



Mental Effort 18 



Experience Necessary 18 



Learn from Others 18 



Aid from -Conventions 19 



Aid from Bee Papers «. 19 



American Bee Journal 19 



Gleanings in Bee Cultvure 20 



Bee-Keepers' Magazine 21 



Books for the Apianst 21 



Langstroth on the Honey-Bee 21 



Quinby's Mysteries of Bee-Keeping 22 



King's Text-Book 22 



A, B, C of Bee Culture 22 



Foreign Works 22 



Promptitude 63 



Enthusiasm 24 



F-A.I^T I. 



Natural Histoet of the Honey Beb. 



' CHAPTER I. 



The Bee's Place in the Animal Kingdom 27 



The Branch of the Honey-Bee 27 



The Class of the Honey-Bee 28 



The Order of the Honey-Bee 30 



The Sub-Order of the Honey-Bee 31 



