THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW. 



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What Others say of Root's Plain Sections and 

 Fences, and the Uanzenbal^er Hive. 



CALIKORNIA. 



F. Danzenbaker: 



"I imist say 1 admire your comb-honey super. 

 When I saw your super and seclions advertised 

 by The A. I Root Co. I was certain it was good. 

 I'shall tr>- a number of thousand of your im- 

 proved sections another season. I like your re- 

 versible bottom board. It works we'll. The 

 broad, deep entrance for hot weather is a splen- 

 did idea. I can move your bees with new combs, 

 full of honey and brood, without breakage, with 

 the best of success."' 



M. H. Mendelson, Ventura, Cal. Dec. 6, '97. 



Mr. M. is one of the largest honey producers 

 in California. He broiight thirty Danz. hives 

 comjilete and 525 supers which he used on 10 fr. 

 I,, hives. He had 30.000 Danz. sections filled 

 which sold in I^os Angeles to ihe fancy grocers 

 for 1 1 '2 c, when 41^ 4ections sold for 8 to 9 c. A 

 difference of 3 c each on 3o,o<X) makes 5900 00, or 

 quite enough to pay twice for the outfit which is 

 good for years. He writes to Mr E. R. Root in 

 reference to a shipment of honey received from 

 him in Aug. '97 as follows: 



"Your favor of the 24th at hand. The comb 

 honey was not the best I had in the Dan/, sec- 

 tions, as I could not get at it the time of shipment. 

 Ten Danz. hives produced me on an average of 

 six supers each, or 192 sections. One Danz. hive 

 produced seven supers, (224 sections). Had this 

 been a first-cla.ss year I could have done much 

 better. This is 2400 sections from twelve Danz. 

 hives at 1 1 '/2 c 5276.00, at 15c ■^360 (X), or 530 per hive. 



In Jan. 1900 Mr. Mendelson ordered 225 Danz. 

 sujjers. 30,000 Danz. sections and 2500 cartons. 

 This shows how one of California's large pro- 

 ducers regards our hives. 



WINTER WELL IN NEW YORK. 



.S. E. Wiley of Poughkee]isic, N. Y. writes on 

 Aug. .^oth, ifi99as follows: "The Danz. hive win- 

 tered finely. Just as well as the double walled 

 chafT hives'. Your hive is practically a double 

 walled hive with the clo.sed end frames." 



X. B. Franklin of GriflRn Corner-, X. V. writes 

 regarding wintering: "They wintered finely. I 

 shall want more of your hives in the spring*" 

 l,aler Mr. Franklin writes :is follows: 

 "1 Ixjught one of vour hives in 96, 22 in '97 and 

 have si.xty of them in use now, and shall likely 

 want irio more next year, as I intend to buy more 

 bt-cs. Your hive bottoms are first class." 



OHIO. 



Vernon Burt of Mallet Creek. "The man who 

 always has honey" and ha~ 150 or more two- 

 story chaff-hives liought five Danz. oneand a half 

 story hives in iH9S. In the fall he lelt the empty 

 sujjer on, placing a Hill's device over the brooa- 

 frames. covered it with burlap, and filled the su- 

 per with dry chaff and tur cd the ii-inch-deep 

 telescopic cover on top of the sii])cr over the hives. 

 The five hives all wintered salely (The coldest 

 winter weather ever known there); etiually as 

 well as the chaff-hives. For 1S99 Mr. Burt bought 



67 more. In July he said he considered it the 

 best hive The a' I. tioot Co. had ever made. He 

 woukl say it to any one at any time, and that it 

 wOuld in time go throughout the whole bee- 

 keeping world. .He was going to buy more of 

 them. 



NORTH CALIFORNIA, r—j 



S. D. Mathews of Hamilton, N. C. writes Dec. 

 15th. 189938 below: 



"I have used both the square and tall sections 

 in all my apiaries five years, and know from 

 practical experience that it will pay to discard 

 the 4I4 sections and use only the 4x5 sections, 

 and the Danz. hive with fence separators. They 

 have made enough more this season in the same 

 yard to pay for the hives. 



I have made more honey this season per hive 

 than any previous year in my fifteen years of 

 beekeeping. Fifteen of my strongest Danz. 

 hives made a ton of honey. 



SOUTH CAROLINA. 



J. B. Neil, Filbert, S. C. writes on Oct. iSlh, 

 1899 as follows: 



"I have handled bees twenty years in all kinds 

 of hives from the old box to The latest standard 

 Langstroth, having fifty colonies in 8-fra:ne 

 Lang.stroth hives. When I saw a cut of the 

 Danz. hive I ordered fifteen of them and was so 

 well pleased with them I ordered 40 more this 

 spring, and transferred every colony from the 

 8-fraiue hives to j'ours, so you see my opinion of 

 your hive. It is J.he best comb honey hive I have 

 ever tried. I prefer a frame 5 inches deep for ex- 

 tracting. They will work in your supers to good 

 advantage: it is better than a deeper frame for 

 the bees to maintain heat to work advantageou.s- 

 ly. Better use extra supers and tier up as need- 

 ed. I prefer the closed end frames and have no 

 trouble killing b es between them. I am satis- 

 fied your hives will take the lead in the near fu- 

 ture;"andthe sooner bee keepers adopt it, the 

 better it is going to be for them. I like your 

 book Facts About Bees. It is practical. 



VIROIXIA. 



Jos. Griffin, Rio, Va. says, on Aug. 14th, 1899: 

 "I have handled bees (,;o years) since 1869, in 

 box hives, .American, Tennessee hives, Mitchell, 

 8- and lo-frame Langstroth and am now using 

 the Danz. hive, and can say it is the best all pur- 

 pose hive I know of, and s'hall use no other." 



HONEY MERCHANTS. 



"There was one case of the Elsie, Mich., lot 

 that we opened this morning, that has 15 sections. 

 The case was marked 'plain sections,' about 12 

 lbs. net. This was a very fine case of honey, and 

 brought 13 cts. We thought we had more of it, 

 and showed it to some of our trade: and the re- 

 sult was, we took orders from every man who 

 saw it, for two or three cases. Do you know 

 where we can get some of this? We .should like 

 to get a lot of this kind, and can use anywhere 

 from 100 to 1000 cases." 



The CoLUMBfs Com.mission & Storage Co. 

 Columbus, Ohio. 



The A. I. Root Co., Medina, Ohio. 



