The authors have traveled thousands of miles in the United States, 

 with notebook and camera, and have endeavored to incorporate in the pages 

 of this volume all the latest and best practices known to the professional 

 and amateur bee-keepers. There is scarcely a practical method or device 

 known to the bee-keepers of the country that is not here described. Be- 

 sides the immense amount of valuable material gathered through extensive 

 travel, the work has been enriched with the choicest material that has ap- 

 peared in the columns of Gleanings in Bee Culture, an illustrated semi- 

 monthly by the same authors. 



Besides the matter relating to methods and devices, the book contains 

 a complete dictionary of apicultural terms, and a picture-gallery comprising 

 a list of the choicest illustrations that have appeared in Gleanings in Bee 

 Culture for the last ten years. 



Prices, cloth bound, $1.50; full leather, $2.50; halt leather, $2.25. When 

 sent by freight or express, 25 cents less. The editions bound in full and 

 half leather include the bee-models, with key, bound in. 



FOREIGN EDITIONS OF THE A B C— Carefully translated editions of 

 this complete cyclopedia of bee-keeping may now be had in the German 

 and French languages. The German edition (ABC DER BIENENZTJCHT) 

 sells for $2.00 in paper and $2.50 in cloth binding. In French (A B C de 

 L'APICULTURE) may be had in cloth for $2. By freight or express deduct 

 20 cents from the above prices. 



OTHER PRACTICAL WORKS ON BEES. 



The books mentioned on this page are all devoted to practical bee culture, 

 although a few of them, as will be noted by their descriptions, have more 

 or less scientific value. A somewhat careful reading of the descriptions 

 below will undoubtedly show any one just what book will suit him best. 

 If several books are to be selected covering a wide range of subjects, the 

 following list may be helpful in deciding what you want: ABC and X Y Z 

 of Bee Culture (see preceding page), Langstroth on the Honey-bee, Ad- 

 vanced Bee Culture. Or this list: How to Keep Bees, Forty Years among 

 the Bees, A Modern Bee Farm. 



LANGSTROTH ON THE HONEY-BEE. the bee, which has been very completely 



By C. P. Dadant. The bee-keeper who covered In this work. It is also val- 



does not like this book is hard to suit. uable for its chapter on honey-plants, or 



The present volume is termed the "Twen- bee botany; 540 pages with good illustra- 



tieth Century Edition " and contains a tions. Price by mail, $1.15; 15 cts. less 



vast fund of information on all subjects by freight or express. 



relating to practical bee culture. It has DOOLITTLE'S QUEEN- REARING 



long been recognized as a standard work rpj^jg jg practically the only comprehensive 



and should be found in the library of ^.oojj q^ queen-rearing now in print. It is 



every progressive bee-keeper. It is well looked upon by many as the foundation 



illustrated and ha,s 575 pages. Price by of modern methods of raising queens 



mall, $1.25; by freight or express, 15 cts. wholesale. Mr. Doolittle has an enter- 



1«S3- taining way of writing on bee subjects 



FORTY YEARS AMONG THE BEES. which enables his readers to follow him 



By Dr. C. C. Miller. This is another with pleasure, even if they never intend 



standard book of 300 pages and 100 illus- to raise queens at all. Cloth bound, 124 



trations, written by a specialist with an pages, $1.00 postpaid; by freight or ex- 



e.Kperience of more than forty years. The press, B cts. less. 



author has read not only all of the liter- QUINSY'S NEW BEE-KEEPING By 



ature on bees published in this country, l C. Root. A modern edition of' that 



but much of that published m Europe, early volume on bees entitled "Quinby's 



and Is a recognized authority. Price by Mysteries," revised some years ago by a 



mail, $1.00; by freight or express, 10 cts. well-known bee-keeper, a son-in-law of 



1^93. the original writer. Mr. Quinby was a 



MANUAL OF THE APIARY. By Prof. practical bee-keeper, and greatly assisted 



A. J. Cook. This is a very complete Mr. Langstroth in laying the foundation 



treatise on bees and bee-keeping, and Is of American apiculture. For this rea- 



particularly valuable where one is inter- son it should be read by all bee-keepers 



ested in the anatomy and physiology of who want to know of the early work in 



