It is both a practical and scientific discussion, and nothing that could interest the bee-raiser is left unsaid.—Chicago Inter-Ocean.
The most thorough work on the apiary ever published, and the only one illustrating the various bee plants.—Lansing (Mich.) Republican.
Prof. Cook is an entomologist, a botanist, a ready writer, a passionate lover of the honey-bee, and his new work savors of all these qualities.—Standard, New Bedford, Mass.
I feel like thanking God that we have such a man as Prof. Cook to take hold of the subject of bee-culture in the masterly way in which he has done it.—Gleanings in Bee Culture.
It is a book which does credit to our calling; one that every bee-keeper may welcome as a fit exponent of the science which gives pleasure to all who are engaged in it.—American Bee Journal.
The honey-bee comes with the perfume of summer flowers, and one of its best friends, A. J. Cook, has written its history and habits in a handsomely illustrated volume.—American Poultry Journal.
It is just what might have been expected from the distinguished author—a work acceptable to the ordinary bee-man, and a delight to the student of scientific apiculture.—Bee Keepers' Magazine.
Cook's new "Manual of the Apiary," comes with high encomiums from America; and certainly it appears to have cut the ground from under future book makers, for some time to come.—British Bee Journal.
It is the most complete and practical treatise on bee-culture in Europe or America. The arrangement is successive, and every topic is lucidly treated in the Professor's blithesome, light-hearted, pithy, suggestive style.—Post and Tribune, Detroit, Mich.
The typography and general execution of the work is handsome and neat, and altogether we have a work that may be safely recommended as the Manual of the Apiarist—the book, par excellence, to which all may revert with both pleasure and profit, for instruction in the management of the apiary.—Michigan Farmer.