Excerpt from A Treatise on the Breeding and Management of Bees, to the Greatest Advantage: Interspersed With Important Observations, Adapted to General Use, Deduced From a Series of Experiments During Thirty YearsImprovements in the management of bees, among farmers and cottagers, have been but little advanced, notwithstanding the many ingenious contrivances which have been offered to public notice, probably from being too operose and expensive for people of that description, to whom, in common, the management of bees is generally of trifling concern.Whether my present attempt will succeed better, time must decide.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.