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THE BEE-KEEPERS" REVIEW 



in establishing out-apiaries, and in the 

 production of honey upon a somewhat 

 extensive scale. I have also visited a 

 number of prominent bee l<eepers and 

 photographed and described the methods 

 whereby they made money. 



Of course, all of this has appeared in 

 the Review and in Gleanings, but in a 

 more or less scattered fashion, and, for 

 a year or more, I have had in mind the 

 gathering together of this matter, in con- 

 secutive order, in a new edition of Ad- 

 vanced Bee Culture. There are several 

 reasons why I have not been able to ac- 

 complish this; chief of which has been 

 the lack of health and strength to do the 

 work. 



During my convalesence at the hos- 

 pital, a correpondence over the matter 

 sprang up between E. R. Root and my- 

 self, with the result that under my 

 guidance and sanction, he is revising and 

 adding the new matter, and the A. I. 

 Root Co. is publishing the book. All of 



the new matter will be something I have 

 written, but the work of fitting it in with 

 the old, so as to make a smooth, con- 

 tnuous story will be that of my friend 

 Root. 



While there may be a pardonable pride 

 in doing all the work myself — writing, 

 printing and publishing— there is another 

 side to the question. The advertising 

 and selling facilities of the A. I. Root Co. 

 will sell ten times as many copies of the 

 book as 1 would be able to sell, thus 

 adding greatly to its usefulness. 



While the new edition will contain con- 

 siderably more matter than the old, the 

 publishing facilities of the A. 1. Root Co. 

 will allow of its being sold at an even 

 Si. 00. postage paid. Orders may be 

 sent to this office; in fact, 1 will club it 

 with the Review at Si. 90 for the book 

 and the Review one year. Orders may 

 be sent in at any time, and will be filled 

 as soon as the book is out — about the 

 holidays. 



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Selected Articles 



AND EDITORIAL COMMENTS. 



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5WARM-CONTROL. 



An Attempt to Accomplish it by Altern- 



nateiy Throwing the Flying Bees From 



one Hive to Another. 



This is not a timely topic, but Glean- 

 ings has an article, by J. E. Hand, on 

 this subject, describing a plan that will 

 probably be regarded as a novelty by 

 many readers, hence 1 copy it, that I may 

 comment upon it, and call attention to 

 what has been done in that line in the 

 past: Here is what Mr. Hand says: 



For generations the outside world has 

 looked upon bee keeping as a hazardous 

 pursuit, and these outsiders can hardly 

 be blamed for entertaining such erroneous 



ideas when up-to-date bee keepers ac- 

 knowledge their inability to control the 

 swarming impulse of bees with any- 

 thing like economy of labor. When bee 

 keepers learn how to control their bees 

 by economical labor saving methods the 

 pursuit of honey production will stand 

 upon a solid basis as compared with 

 other business ventures. 



As many of the readers of this journal 

 already know, the writer has for several 

 years been engaged in an earnest en- 

 deavor to solve the problem with economy 

 of labor. Our efforts have not been in 

 vain; for after much experimenting along 

 many lines we have at last discovered 

 principles by which bees may be con- 

 trolled with the same precision and 

 certainty that the expert engineer con- 

 trols his engine, and with an economy 

 of labor that renders the new system 

 well nigh automatic in operation. Re- 

 sults that formerly necessitated an al- 



