CONTEN TS 



INTKODUCTION. 



Who May Keep Bees 11 



Specialists 11 



Amateurs 11 



"Who are Specially Interdicted 12 



Inducements to Bee-Keeping 12 



Kecreation 12 



Profit J3 



Excellence as an Amateur Pursuit 15 



Adaptation to Women 15 



Improves the Mind and Observation 17 



Yields Delicious Food 17 



What Successful Bee-Keeping Requires 18 



Mental Effort 18 



Experience Necessary 18 



Learn from Others 18 



Aid from Conventions 19 



Aid from Bee Papers 19 



American Bee Journal 19 



Gleanings in Bee Culture 20 



Bee-Keepers' Magazine 21 



Books for the Apiarist 21 



Eangstroth on tlie Honey-Bee 21 



Quinby's Mysteries of Bee-Keeping 22 



King's Text-Book 22 



A, B, C of Bee Culture 22 



Foreign Works 22 



Promptitude 53 



Enthusiasm 24 



I^J^IR-T I. 



Natural History of the Honey Bee. 



CHAPTER I. 



The Bee's Place in the Animal Kingdom 27 



The Branch of the Honey-Bee 27 



The Class of the Honey-Bee 28 



The Order of the Honey-Bee 30 



The Sub-Order of the Honey-Bee 31 



