Excerpt from Bees and Bee-Keeping: A Plain, Practical Work, Resulting From Tears of Experience and Close Observation in Extensive Aplaries, Both in Pennsylvania and California, With Directions How to Make Bee Keeping a Desirable and Lucrative Business, and for Shipping Bees to CaliforniaI am also indebted to Bevan's work on bees for valuable ex tracts.I would here tender my thanks to the Rev. J. Lewis Shuck, of Sacramento, California, for an article on bees and bee-keep ing in China.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.