PREFACE. 



TN placing this work before the reader, it is the 

 Author's intention to adhere strictly to the Science 

 of Practical Bee-keeping, and to refer to the natural 

 history of Bees only in so far that the one cannot be 

 separated from the other to secure correct management. 

 Those wishing to study the complete Anatomy and 

 Physiology of these wonderful little insects, cannot do 

 better than secure Cheshire's* most exhaustive work on 

 the subject. 



With few exceptions, the instructions contained 

 herein will be confined to the Author's own experience, 

 which has extended over twenty years of close obser- 

 vation. The reader will therefore have the benefit of a 

 lengthened and varied experience, and by following one 



*" Bees and Bee-keeping," Part I., Scientific. London: L. Upcott Gill, 

 170, Strand, W.C. 



