COOK'S NEW MANUAL OP THE APIARY. 



Needs no recommendation— recommends itself.— TTiBstem Bvral, Chicago. 



This work is exceedingly yaluable—indeed indispensable to apiarists.- Fotce of 

 Masonry. 



Treating the art in all i^ different branches in a clear, concise and interesting 

 manner, — The Cajiadian Entomologist. 



It is the fullest, most practical, and most satisfactory treatise on the subject 

 now before the pnblic.~Cov/ntry Gentleman. 



It contains the latest developments of science connected with bee-culture and 

 honey'production.— OTrfcoffo Evening Jov/mal. 



It contains the latest scientific discoveries in apiarian management and bee- 

 keeping apparatus.— Prai?"ie Farmery Chicago. 



The latest, fullest, most practical and satisfactory treatise on the subject, now 

 before the public— Lambton (Canada) Advocate. 



Hvery point connected with the subject is handled in a clear, exhaustive, yet 

 pithy and practical manner.— Bural New Yorker. 



It^s both a practical and scientific discussion, and nothing that could interest 

 the bee-raiser is left unsaid.— Ofticapo Inter-Oceam,. 



The most thorough work on the apiary ever published, and the only one illus- 

 trating the various bee plwa.tB.—Lcmsing (Mich.) BepubUcwn. 



Prof. Cook is an entomologist, a botanist, a ready writer, a passionate lover of 

 the honey-bee, and his new work savors of all these qualities.- Stflwidord, New 

 Bedford, Mass. 



I feel like thanking Qod that we have such a man as Prof. Cook to take hold of 

 the subject of bee-culture in the masterly way in which he has done it.—6leamr 

 ings in Bee Cultwre. 



It is a book which does credit to our calling ; one that every bee-keeper may 

 welcome as a fit exponent of the science which gives pleasure to ail who are en- 

 gaged in it.— American Bee Jov/mal. 



The honey-bee comes with the perfume of summer flowers, and one of its best 

 friends, A. J. Cook, has written its history and habits in a handsomely illustrated 

 ^olame.— American Poultry Journal. __ 



- It is just what might have been Expected from the distinguished author— a work 

 acceptable to the ordinary bee-man, and a delight to the student of scientific 

 apiculture.- Bee Keepers' Magazine. 



Cook's new "Manual of the Apiary," comes with high encomiums from America; 

 and certainly it appears to have cut the ground from under f utiu:e book makers, 

 for some time to came.— British Bee Journal. 



It is the most complete and practical treatise on bee-culture in Europe or 

 America. The arrangement is successive, and every topic is lucidly treated in the 

 Professor's blithesome, light-hearted, pithy, suggestive style.— Poafc am>d Tribune, 

 Detroit, Mich. 



The typography and general execution of the work is handsome and neat, and 

 altogetherwe nave awork that maybe safely recommended as the Mam/VMlof the 

 Apiarist— the book, par excellence, to which all may revert with both pleasure and 

 profit, for instruction in the management of the apiary.- JficTiiffan Fanner. . 



It must rank with Henderson's manuals, and share with them the praise of be- 

 ing an indispensable adjunct to every specialist's library. It is a scientific, practical 

 book, a book of "how to do" and **why to do," tersely written, yet fully ex- 

 pressed ; a book to the credit of American literature.— Scfenti^ Farmer, Boston. 



Prof. A. J. Cook's " Manual of the Apiary" contains, besides the description of 

 the anatomy and physiology of the honey bee, beautifully illustrated, the pro- 

 ducts and races of the bees, honey plants— the instructions for the different 

 operations performed in the hives. All agree that it is the work of a Master, and 

 is of real value.— I/'^j>iculteur, Paris. 



1 have read with a great deal of interest the copy of Cook's Manual you sent 

 me, and I intend to publish extracts from it in the * Bulletin" of the Society of 

 Apiculture of the Department of the Somme, so that our apiarists may be aware 

 or the value of this estimable work. It is a credit to the author as well as the 

 publishers. > I have never yet met with a work, either French or foreign, which I 

 like so much.— L' Abbe L. DuBois, at La Malmaison Aisne, France. 



^^r It is printed in the best style of the art, on fine book paper and superbly 

 illustrated. Price, bound in cloth, JS1.S5 ; in paper, $1.00» postpaid. Per 

 dozen : cloth, $12.00 ; paper, $9.50. 



THOMAS G. NEWMAN 



'Wert BEadlaon Street, CHICAGO. 



