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HOW TO KEEP BEES

_Photograph by Ralph W. Curtis_

PLATE I. BASSWOOD BLOSSOM]

How to Keep Bees

A Handbook for the Use of Beginners

By Anna Botsford Comstock, B. S.

_With Illustrations_

GARDEN CITY NEW YORK DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY MCMXI

Copyright, 1905, by Doubleday, Page & Company Published April, 1905

_All rights reserved, including that of translation—also right of translation into the Scandinavian languages_