Excerpt from Phelps' Bee-Keeper's Chart: Being a Brief Practical Treatise on the Instinct, Habits and Management of the Honey-Bee, in All Its Various Branches, The Results of Many Years' Practical Experience, to Render Bee-Keeping, Less Difficult, and at the Same Time More Sure, Profitable and P

In presenting to the community this brief treatise on the management of the Honey Bee, and the construction of Bee-Hives, the author is not vain enough to suppose that it will meet the views of every Bee-keeper in all respects, for he is well aware that there is scarcely any subject on which such a diversity of opinion exists, as on the form and size of bee-hives, and the general management of bees.

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