A Year Among the Bees: Being a talk about some of the implements, plans and practices of a bee-keeper of 25 years' experience, who has for 8 years made the production of honey his exclusive business.
Chicago: Office of the American Bee Journal, [circa 1885-86]. Octavo (17.5 x 13.4 cm), 114, [14] pages. Illustrations. Index. Advertisements. Publication date from the author's Fifty Years Among the Bees, (1920, page 15). FIRST EDITION. Charles C. Miller (1831-1920) was a practical commercial beekeeper that specialized in comb honey production. Miller began as an amateur beekeeper. In 1861, his wife hived a swarm into a sugar barrel when it landed.....