PREFACE. 
7 
In my anxiety to be understood by all classes of 
readers, I am aware that I have made the elegant con- 
struction and arrangement of sentences of secondary 
importance; therefore justly liable to criticism. But 
to the reader, whose object is information on this sub- 
ject, it can be of but little eonsequepce. 
Coxsaclcie , 1853. . M. QU1NBY. 
Since the publication of the first editions of this 
treatise, the writer has left Coxsaclcie in Greene Co., 
for St. Johnsville, Montgomery Co., N. Y. 
During the past season, the author and a few neigh- 
bors who manage according to his system, have fur- 
nished for market over 20,000 pounds of box-honey. 
This fact has been noticed, and copied extensively in 
the newspapers, as something remarkable, awakening 
much curiosity. As his address was given in connec- 
tion, he has been beset with letters of inquiry as to 
what system of bee-culture was pursued, from those 
who are not aware of the existence of this work. It 
is impossible to answer in detail by letter; but in this 
volume every question, with many others, have been 
anticipated and fully discussed. Since the above date 
of the first edition, he has had the experience of several 
additional years, which have suggested no important 
alteration or addition. So many have tested the prac- 
ticability of his system with such uniform success, 
that he again offers it to the public with increased 
confidence. — St. Johnsville , N. Y., January, 1857. 
M. QUINBY. 
