The Cottage Bee Keeper Or Suggestions For The Practical Management Of Amateur Cottage And Farm Apiaries By A Country Curate PDF Download

Excerpt from The Cottage Bee Keeper: Or Suggestions for the Practical Management of Amateur, Cottage and Farm Apiaries It will naturally be expected by every one who hears of the publication of a new work on bees - in the face of the many excellent treatises already extant, some of which have opened to us many marvels in the natural history, while others have facilitated the profitable management, of these wonderful insects - either that the adventurous author has something new to add to the common stock of already acquired knowledge upon the subject, or that he has, at least, some satisfactory reasons to allege for intruding himself upon public notice; seeing that to write a book, for which there is no vacant place on the library shelf of the apiarian reader, must undoubtedly be considered a work of no little folly and presumption. Respecting, as he does, this attitude of very natural expectation on the part of the public, the author of the ensuing pages would submit the following observations to the consideration of the candid reader. In the first place, there is no one but will readily allow that our knowledge of bees, scientific or practical, however it may have increased of late years, is still limited; or that there is at least room for improvement. If this admission be made, it at once follows that there is room for a new work on the subject, however the aparian's library may seem at first sight to be complete without it. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.