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their revelations supply sufficient data upon which a highly scientific 

 treatment of bees might be established. In this little work will be 

 found an attempt to bring our higher knowledge upon the subject to 

 bear upon, and improve, the system of bee management actually in 

 vogue among us. • 



The few wood cuts, it is hoped, will sufficiently answer their pur- 

 pose of helping out the instructions of the text. If it be complained 

 that they are somewhat rude and primitive, the fault is to be attri- 

 buted to circumstances, not to intention. 



Other bee authors, in drawing their labors to a conclusion, have 

 thought it well to solicit the favor of ingenuous criticism; — following 

 in their steps, as considering that many still hidden truths may yet be 

 evoked by a spirit of candid inquiry, tending to throw valuable light 

 on the subject of these pages, the author would also invite the same. 



March 39th, 1851. 



