4 STATE BOARD OP AGKICULTURE. 



An excellent apiary inspection law has been passed which will aid 

 in checking the spread of bee diseases and in the dissemination of 

 better knowledge in regard to diseases and methods of eradicating 

 them. 



A brief bulletin entitled "Bee Keeping in Rhode Island," which 

 deals with the principal bee diseases and their control, has already 

 been issued. The present bulletin on "How to Keep Bees," aims to 

 give a full account of the practice of bee keeping, and the fact that 

 the author is a bee keeper of long experience, who not only knows the 

 practical side, but has also sought the fullest information through 

 other avenues, assures us that the directions presented can be given 

 the fullest credence and can be studied to advantage by every bee 

 keeper, but particularly by beginners who wish a brief and concise 

 treatise relating to the industry. 



The Board of Agriculture is indebted to the A. I. Root Company, 

 Medina, Ohio, for all the cuts used in this bulletin, and to A. H. 

 Gurney, of the Providence Journal, for the pictures from which 

 halftones were made, showing apiaries at Howard and Knightsville. 



A. E. Stene. 



