. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. Sept. 27, 1900. AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 619 Root's Column THE ABC Bee-Culture The only Encyclopicdia on Bees lOooEdJtiun. 500 Page^- The last edition, 5,(H'it copies, i'^sued iu Octo- ber, 18'>9. was exhausted ill the short space of one year. Even before the ediiioti was out of the press, 1,500 copies had been sold: and before 30 days had past l,l>0 more copies were taken. We immediately set to work to print a new edi- tion. While the edition of 1S<)'» was more thoroly revised thau any previous one, that for I'HXi has received even larger addit
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. Sept. 27, 1900. AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 619 Root's Column THE ABC Bee-Culture The only Encyclopicdia on Bees lOooEdJtiun. 500 Page^- The last edition, 5,(H'it copies, i'^sued iu Octo- ber, 18'>9. was exhausted ill the short space of one year. Even before the ediiioti was out of the press, 1,500 copies had been sold: and before 30 days had past l,l>0 more copies were taken. We immediately set to work to print a new edi- tion. While the edition of 1S<)'» was more thoroly revised thau any previous one, that for I'HXi has received even larger additions of new matter, so that the book from be?iuninp to end is al- most entirely new. It now contains 5in) double- column pag'es. It has been most carefully gone over by Dr. C. C. Miller, who has prepared a new set of comments, and by Prof. A. J. Cook, of Pomona College, Calif- As before, old sub- jects have been rewritten. Descriptions of ob- solete methods have in all cases been stricken out, and the very latest put in their place. The 1900 Edition marks the 75th Thousand. It is in many respects superior to any previ- ous one in regard to typographical appearance, quantity of new subject-matter, and general re- vision of old subjects, for we are now building on the knowledge and experience of these latter days, when such wonderful strides are being made. For the Veteran as well as for the Beginner. While the book is, in the true sense, an A M C of bee-culture, in that it is adapted to the re- quirements of beginners, it is also a compre- hensive X Y Z of the subject; for no veteran, no matter how extensive his experience, can af- ford to be without a work of this kind, contain- ing as it does a carefully prepared dissertation on every late method or practice known to the business. All the bee-literature of past ages, all the current literature of this and every other country, has been carefully scanned; and what- ever there is that is new and valuable has been incorporated in
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