INTRODUCTION. 
I am informed that Mr. Kretchmer has written a new 
work on the most successful management of the Honey- 
bee, in either common or movable-comb hives. The 
work will undoubtedly be the most valuable ever placed 
before the American bee keeping community, the author 
having the facility of obtaining the most thorough in- 
formation from German, Italian, French, English and 
American writers on the subject, embracing the latest 
discoveries and improvements in bee-keeping. His 
thorough knowledge of practical bee culture, perfected 
in his extensive traveling, and experiments conducted 
whilst residing in Italy and Germany, as well as in the 
United States, is indeed sufficient guarantee for the 
great value of his work ; and his improved movable- 
comb bee-hive, acknowledged by eminent apiariawi of 
the American, German, and French nations as the m*st 
perfect hive in existence — it being made the “standard 
hive,” by the bee keepers of Germany, and has also 
received the highest award, a silver medal, at the late 
Paris Exposition. 
His experience with the Italian bee, long before they 
were introduced into the United States, will be found 
of unequaled value in the chapter on that variety, and 
many, heretofore mysterious points will be found tho- 
roughly explained. 
J. R. DODDS. 
