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honey-bee. 2d. Directions for their management in 
compliance with their nature. 
To bring the work within the reach of all, it has been 
condensed to the smallest possible scope consistent with 
a full exposition of the subject, with plain directions 
for the various most profitable operations in either com- 
mon or movable-comb hives. 
Although the edition of the “ Bee-Keeper’s Guide 
Book” published in 1868, was acknowledged as com- 
plete and ‘‘ahead of the time;” the advance in the 
science of bee-culture, since its publication, has been so 
great, and all other books on the subject, to our know- 
ledge, of even a prior date, that we deemed it neces- 
sary to destroy our electrotype plates, and at great 
expense re-write and re-set the work in order to em- 
brace all the latest improvements ; which, we flatter 
ourselves, will be of interest to even the advanced bee- 
master, as many of the improvements were made in 
foreign countries, obtained in some instances by private 
letter, or from publications foreign to many of our 
bee-keepers. 
E. KRETCHMER. 
Coburg, Iowa, September, 1872. 
