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many years, President of the Bee-keepers’ Association, 
and he now properly succeeds Mr. Quinby in literature, 
as well as in business. Indeed it is fortunate that the 
unfinished task of Mr. Quinby has fallen into the hands 
of one who was so familiar with his methods and thought ; 
while he presents Mr. Quinby’s later views, as none other 
could have done, he greatly increases the value of the 
work by adding largely from the results of his own ex- 
tended experience. It has not been found practicable 
to indicate which of the new matter is by Mr. Quinby or 
which by Mr. Root, as the record is often of their united 
experience ; both being more desirous of establishing use- 
ful facts than of claiming the credit of their discovery. 
