1837.


Entered according to act of Congress, in the year 1836.

By John M. Weeks,

in the Clerk’s Office of the District Court of Vermont.


PREFACE.

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It appears to the writer of the following pages, that a work of this description is much needed in our country.

The cultivation of the bee (Apis Mellifica) has been too long neglected in most parts of the United States.