Chapter III: Introduction

Who May Keep Bees 11
Specialists 11
Amateurs 11
Who are Specially Interdicted 12
Inducements to Bee-Keeping 12
Recreation 12
Profit 13
Excellence as an Amateur Pursuit 15
Adaptation to Women 15
Improves the Mind and Observation 17
Yields Delicious Food 17
What Successful Bee-Keeping Requires 18
Mental Effort 18
Experience Necessary 18
Learn from Others 18
Aid from Conventions 19
Aid from Bee Papers 19
American Bee Journal 19
Gleanings in Bee Culture 20
Bee-Keepers' Magazine 21
Books for the Apiarist 21
Langstroth on the Honey-Bee 21
Quinby's Mysteries of Bee-Keeping 22
King's Text-Book 22
A, B, C of Bee Culture 22
Foreign Works 22
Promptitude 23
Enthusiasm 24