BEE-KEEPING. BY "THE TIMES" BEE-MASTER. WITH ILLUSRTATIONS. LONDON: SAMPSON LOW, SON, & MARSTON, 1864. [The right of translation is reserved. 189:9 PREFACE. Y apology for writing a Bee-Book is as follows:-I sent The Times an account M of a very successful honey harvest about the end of July, containing some observations on the treatment of bees, and the profits that might accrue to the cottager were he to take the right and humane way of taking honey from his hives. This communication appears to have interested many, for in consequence of it, persons desirous of information wrote to the Editor of The Times, requesting in confidence the name of the Beemaster, in order that they might correspond with |