This section is from the book "Better Beekeeping Or How We Made Bees Pay", by D. F. Rankin. Also available from Amazon: Better Beekeeping: The Ultimate Guide to Keeping Stronger Colonies and Healthier, More Productive Bees.
Rowe, H. S
Starting Right with Bees, the A. I. Root Co., Medina, Ohio, rev. ed., 1936. 98 pages, 50 cents. A good brief treatment of the subject.
ATKINS, C. W. and HAWKINS, K.
How to Succeed with Bees, Watertown, Wis., for sale by G. B. Lewis Co.. 1924, 300 p., 59 cents.
Pellet. Frank Chapman
Beginner's Bee Book, J. B. Liopincott Co., Philadelphia and London, 1919. 179 p.
Dadant, Camille Pierre
First Lessons in Beekeeping, American Bee Journal, Hamilton, 111., 1924. 167 p., $1. 00.
Pellet, F. C
Productive Beekeeping, J. B. Lippincott Co., Philadelphia and London. 1923, rev. ed., 302 p., $2. 50, 134 illustrations. Modern methods of producing and marketing honey.
Phillips, Everett Franklin
Beekeeping; a Discussion of the Life of the Honey Bee and of the Production of Honey, rev. ed. The Macmillan Co., New York; Macmillan and Co., Ltd., London, 1928, 457 p., $4. 00.
Miller, Chas. C
Fifty Years Among the Bees, the A. I. Root Co., Medina, Ohio, 1911, 340 p., 75 cents.
Laustroth, L. L
The Honey Bee, rev. by Chas. and C. P. Dadant, American Bee Journal, Hamilton, 111., 1927, $2. 50.
Dadant, M. G
Outapiaries and Their Management, American Bee Journal, Hamilton, 111., rev. ed., 1932, $1. 00, 116 pages.
Pellet, F. C
Practical Queen Rearing, American Bee Journal, Hamilton, 111., rev. ed.. $1. 0Q 105 pages.
Smith, Jay
Queen Rearing Simplified, the A. I. Root Co., Medina, Ohio, 114 pages, $1. 25.
Root, Ernest R
The ABC and X Y Z of Bee Culture, an encyclopedia of everything pertaining to the care of the honey bee; bees, hives, honey, implements, honey plants, etc.; facts gleaned from the experience of thousands of beekeepers, and afterwards verified in our apiary, by A. I. and E. R. Root, the A. I. Root Co., Medina, Ohio, rev. ed., 1935, 815 pages, $2. 50 postpaid.
Gleanings in Bee Culture, monthly, A. I. Root Co., Medina, Ohio, $1. 00. American Bee Journal, monthly, Hamilton, 111.. $1. 00.
The Beekeepers Item, monthly, San Antonio, Tex., $1. 00.
York's Bees and Honey, monthly, $1. 00.
Agricultural Experiment Stations and the United States Department of Agriculture publish free bulletins about bees.
 
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