. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. I. -^IN AMERICA J^^ 4 2d YEAR. CHICAGO, ILL, JULY 10,1902, No, 28. s ,ja^ia^i£,ja,j£..}a,js,j^i)£^i^i£^iiiJ< ^ Editorial Comments, ^i "The Bee-Keeper's Guide: or Manual of the Apiary," is the double title of Prof. A. J. Cook's text-book on bees, which has now reached its 17th edition. The present edi- tion is improved as to its outward appearance, and still more as to its contents, much of it being written anew, thus enlarging the work to 544 pages, and bringing it up to date. Prof. Cook writes from the standpoint of a scientis
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. I. -^IN AMERICA J^^ 4 2d YEAR. CHICAGO, ILL, JULY 10,1902, No, 28. s ,ja^ia^i£,ja,j£..}a,js,j^i)£^i^i£^iiiJ< ^ Editorial Comments, ^i "The Bee-Keeper's Guide: or Manual of the Apiary," is the double title of Prof. A. J. Cook's text-book on bees, which has now reached its 17th edition. The present edi- tion is improved as to its outward appearance, and still more as to its contents, much of it being written anew, thus enlarging the work to 544 pages, and bringing it up to date. Prof. Cook writes from the standpoint of a scientist as well as a practical beekeeper; so it happens that in one respect no text-book on bees published in this country can compare with this—that respect which relates to the natural history of the honey-bee. This occupies Part I. and covers 167 well-written pages, 81 of the 295 illustrations of the book being used to illuminate this first part. It is true that a man might keep bees and produce honey without knowing whether a bee belongs to the class hexapoda or myriapoda—men have profitably produced honey without knowing whether the drones or the workers, or something else, laid the eggs—but the ambitious young person who enters the ranks of bee-keepers will have some desire to be intelligent upon the subject in general, and even if he has all the other text-books he will want the one hat is so full upon the natural history of his pets. Preceding Part I is an introduction discussing who may keep bees : inducements to bee-keeping—recreation, profits, etc. The introduction to Part II advises as to starting an apiary, the proper preliminary study, procuring first colo- nies, kind of hives to adopt, where to locate, etc. Part II gives practical instruction in bee-keeping, its successive chapters treating on Hives and Sections ; Posi- tion and Arrangement of the Apiary ; Transferring Bees ; Feeding and Feeders ; Oueen-Rearing ; Increase of Colo. nies ; Italianizing; Extra
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