The Bee-master's Companion, and Assistant

Wherein is Set Forth the Properest Methods of Managing Those Insects, So as They May Turn Out to the Best Advantage. Shewing an Effectual Way to Preserve Them from Famine, Cold, Robbers, Mice, Or Other Enemies: Also how to Make All Your Hives Equal in Bees, So as Never to Have Any Weak Hive; with an Account of the Power the Working Bees are Invested With, of Raising Any Egg in the Hive to be a Queen, when the Community Stands in Need of One

by James Bonner (writer on bee-keeping.)