Manual of the apiary

Name: Manual of the apiary
Author: Cook, Albert John
Cook, Albert John
Bee culture; Bees
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                                MANUAL

                                  OF

                              THE APIARY,

                                  BY

                              A. J. COOK,

                       _Professor of Entomology_

                                IN THE

                 MICHIGAN STATE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE.

                            FOURTH EDITION,

  _REVISED, ENLARGED, MOSTLY RE-WRITTEN AND BEAUTIFULLY ILLUSTRATED._

                            SIXTH THOUSAND.

                CHICAGO, ILLS.: THOMAS G. NEWMAN & SON

                                 1879.

      Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1878, by

                        THOMAS G. NEWMAN & SON,

   In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington, D. C.

                                TO THE

                      REVEREND L. L. LANGSTROTH,

                                  THE

                  INVENTOR OF THE MOVABLE FRAME HIVE,

                                  THE

             HUBER OF AMERICA, AND THE GREATEST MASTER OF

               PURE AND APPLIED SCIENCE, AS RELATING TO

                 APICULTURE, IN THE WORLD; THIS MANUAL

                        IS GRATEFULLY DEDICATED

                                  BY

                              THE AUTHOR.

PREFACE TO FIRST EDITION.

THE APIARY.

Why another treatise on this subject? Have we not Langstroth, and
Quinby, and King, and Bevan, and Hunter? Yes; all of these. Each of
which has done excellent service in promoting an important industry.
Each of which possesses peculiar and striking excellences. Yet none
of these combine all of the qualities desirable in a popular manual.
Hence, the excuse for another claimant for public favor. Every cultured
apiarist laments that there is no text-book which possesses all of
the following very desirable characters: Simple style, full in its
discussions, cheap, disinterested, up with the times. It is for the
bee-keeping public to decide whether this treatise meets any more fully
the demands made by the latest discoveries and improvements, by the
wants of those eager to learn, and by the superior intelligence which
is now enlisted in the interests of the Apiary.

The following is, in substance, the same as the course of lectures
which I have given each year to the students of the Michigan
Agricultural College, and their desire, as expressed in repeated
requests, has led to this publication.

It will be my desire to consider subjects of merely scientific interest
and value, as fully as scientific students can reasonably desire; and,
that such discussions may not confuse or perplex those who only read or
study with practical ends in view, a very full index is added, so that
the whereabouts of any topic, either of practical or scientific value,
can be easily ascertained.
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Manual of the apiary

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