The Bee-Keeper's Manual; or, the Honey Bee, its Management and Preservation British Bee-Farming, its Profits and Pleasures Manual of the Apiary

Abstract

MR. WATTS' edition of Taylor's “Bee-Keeper's Manual” has been so copiously revised and added to that it is really a new work, embodying all the most recent discoveries and improvements in apiarian practice. For the amateur bee-keeper—as distinguished from the scientific student of bees on the one hand, and the mere honey manufacturer on the other—this volume is a most admirable guide. It is simple in arrangement, very clear in its descriptions, and copiously illustrated by really good woodcuts of every portion of the extensive apparatus used by the modern amateur. Commencing with a short account of the different kinds of honey-bee, and the main facts of its life-history, we are soon introduced to the mode of keeping bees, beginning with the old-fashioned straw hive, and successively pointing out the various improvements that have been effected. We then come to the different kinds of box, frame, and observatory hives, and the various systems of bee-management, all of which are explained and illustrated in the clearest and most intelligible manner. The latter half of the volume is devoted to a detailed account of the summer, autumn, winter, and spring management of bees; and this part is so full and so carefully written that it will prove of the greatest service to all young bee-keepers.

The Bee-Keeper's Manual; or, the Honey Bee, its Management and Preservation.

With a Description of the most Approved Hives and other Appliances of the Apiary, By the late Henry Taylor. Seventh Edition, modernised and very greatly enlarged by Alfred Watts. (London: Groombridge and Sons, 1880.)

British Bee-Farming, its Profits and Pleasures.

By James F. Robinson. (London: Chapman and Hall, 1880.)

Manual of the Apiary.

By A. J. Cook, Professor of Entomology in the Michigan State Agricultural College. Fifth Edition, revised, enlarged, mostly re-written, and beautifully illustrated. (Chicago, Illinois: Thomas G. Newman and Son, 1880.)