ical system of bee-keeping, whereby one with no knowledge of 

 the business can learn in "twelve short lessons" all about it, but 

 will just talk about some of the things that I think would interest 

 you, if we were sitting down together for a familiar chat. I 

 take it you are familiar with the good books and periodicals 

 that we as bee-keepers are blest with, and in some things, if 

 not most, you are a better bee-keeper than I ; so you have my 

 full permission, as you go from page to page, to make such 

 remarks as, "Oh, how foolish !" "I know a good deal better way 

 than that," etc., but I hope some may find a hint here and there 

 that may prove useful. 



I have no expectation nor desire to write a complete treatise 

 on bee-keeping. Many important matters connected with the 

 art I do not mention at all, because they have not come within 

 my own experience. Others that have come within my experi- 

 ence I do not mention, because I suppose the reader to be already 

 familiar with them. I merely try to talk about such things as I 

 think a brother bee-keeper would be most interested in if he 

 should remain with me during the year. 



