CONTENTS 



INTRODUCTION. 



PAGE 



Who May Keep Bees ; 1 



Specialists , 1 



Amateurs 1 



Who are Specially Interdicted 2, 



Inducements to Bee-Keeplng 2 



Recreation 2 



Profits , 3 



Excellence as an Amateur Pursuit 3 



Adaptation to Women 5 



Improves the Mind and the Observation 7 



Yields Delicious Food 7 



Adds to the Nation's Wealth S 



What Successful Bee-keeping Requires ,, 8 



Mental BflTort 8 



Experience Necessary 8 



Learn from Othersi 9 



Aid From Conventions .'. 9 



Aid from Bee Publications 9 



American Bee Journal \ 9 



.Gleanings in Bee Culture 



Bee-Keepers' Magazine 



Bee-Keepers' Exchange 



Bee-Keepers' Guide 



Kansas Bee-Keeper 



The California Apiarist 



Books for the Apiarist 



^ Langstroth on the Honey-Bee 



Q,uinby's Mysteries of Bee-Keeplng 13 



King's Text-Book 12 



ABCof Bee Culture 



