PREPAOE. 7 



In my anxiety to be understood by all classes of 

 readers, I am aware that I have made the elegant con- 

 struction and arrangement of sentences of secondary 

 importance ; therefore justly liable to criticism. But 

 to the reader, whose object is information on this sub- 

 ject, it can be of but little consequence. 



Gooc&acMe, 1853. M. QUINBY. 



Since the publication of the first editions of thi? 

 treatise, the writer has left Coxsackie in Greene Co., 

 for St. Johnsville, Montgomery Co., N. Y. 



During the past season, the author and a few neigh- 

 bors who manage according to his system, have fur- 

 nished for market over 20,000 pounds of box-honey. 

 This fact has been noticed, and copied extensively in 

 the newspapers, as something remarkable, awakening 

 much curiosity. As his address was given in connec- 

 tion, he has been beset with letters of inquiry as to 

 what system of bee-culture was pursued, from those 

 who are not aware of the existence of this work. It 

 is impossible to answer in detail by letter; but in this 

 volume every question, with many others, have been 

 anticipated and folly discussed. Since the above date 

 of the first edition, he has had the experience of several 

 additional years, which have suggested no important 

 alteration or addition. So many have tested the prac- 

 ticability of his system with such uniform success, 

 that he again offers it to the public with increased 

 confidence. — St. JohnsviUe, N. Y., January, 1857. 



M. QUINBY. 



