Here is a book which will meet a real need, for more and more large and small scale gardeners are going in for beekeeping, not only as a hobby, but as a definite and important factor in cultivating their gardens. Here is a practical working book, with basic precepts and procedures, and an analysis of good and proved methods. Details of equipment, types of hives, costs. Instruction on handling bees, on management and care of hives, on feeding, on controlling swarms, on extracting honey, on queen rearing, on diseases and vermin.