British bee-keeper's guide book to the management of bees in movable-comb hives, and the use of modern bee-appliances : Illustrated / by T.W. Cowan.

  • Thomas William Cowan
Date:
[1911]
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Credit: British bee-keeper's guide book to the management of bees in movable-comb hives, and the use of modern bee-appliances : Illustrated / by T.W. Cowan. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    class engravings were reproduced from special photographs illustrative of the educational work now being done by the British Bee-keepers’ Association at their Experimental Apiary attached to the Horticultural College, Swanley, Kent. I am indebted to Mr. W. Herrod, Expert of the B.B.K.A., for a number of excellent photographs taken by himself at his apiary at Luton, together with several illustrating bee-operations and incidents connected with examinations for the third-class certifi- cate of the B.B.K.A., photographed at the same place. To Mr. L. Upcott Gill, who generously gave me a free hand to use illustrations from Mr. Cheshire’s well-known work on bees, I am indebted for Figs. 43, 44, 76, 84, 98, 108, 119, 131, 132; also to Dr. Sterry for photo of queen and worker-bees on a frame of comb, and to Mr. F. W. L. Sladen for Figs. 89, 91, 93, 94, 96, 97, and 104, illustrating modern methods of queen-rearing. Among others to whom I am also much indebted, I may men- tion Dr. Burri, for permission to reproduce the series of beautiful photo-micrographs (pages 172 to 175), which have enabled me to illustrate the most recent investigations, while this chapter has been entirely re-written to bring it in accord with the latest investigations of Drs. Burri, Maassen White, Malden, and Zander, and treats of diseases more fully than in any previous work on bees. With the generous help thus afforded on all sides, 1 felt justified in adding considerably to the size of the book by thoroughly revising the original text—where required—in the light of recent discoveries. In doing this several new chapters have been added, and the work has been brought up-to-date on all points. The present edition contains a considerable number of pages beyond any previous one, nor is any book of its kind I know of more fully illustrated. In conclusion, I may say every illustration in the work will justify its appearance therein as being instructive, useful, and interesting. I have carefully avoided anything in the shape of “ padding,” and may with confidence claim for the present edition of the Guide Book a first place among handbooks on bee-keeping, as being the largest in point of circulation of any similar work ever published. The last edition consisted of 19,000 copies, and its reception justified the increase, for it was sold out in four years, a sale unprecedented in bee literature. No expense has been spared in the endeavour to make the book equally helpful to the beginner and to the most experienced bee-keeper who is desirous of knowing all about bees and their management. Upcott House, Taunton, Thos. Wm. Cowan. June, 1911.
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