This volume comprises a comprehensive guide to bee-keeping, being a brief and practical treatise on the instincts, habits, and management of the honey-bee in all its various branches. This text is the result of many years' practical experience, and is intended to render bee-keeping less difficult, and at the same time more sure, profitable, and pleasant. Although old, most of the information contained herein is timeless, and will be of much value to the modern bee-keeper looking to improve their honey production. The chapters of this book include: 'The Queen Bee', 'The Operation of Laying', 'The Development of the Brood', 'The Working Bee', 'The Drone', 'Longevity of Bees', 'Formation of Swarms', 'Artificial Clustering Shrubs or Bushes', 'Hives', 'Different Swarms Uniting', 'Uniting Second or Weak Swarms', and much more. We are proud to republish this vintage text, now complete with a new and specially commissioned introduction on bee-keeping.