THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW 



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ADVANCED BLE CULTURE. 



The Bringing Out of a New Edition Calls 



Forth Warm Commendation from 



Editor Root. 



Ever since I have been in the publish- 

 ing business, I have been more or less 

 handicapped in writing my advertise- 

 ments. I have always been compelled to 

 praise my own work, which, to me, has 

 been done with a certain sort of repug- 

 nance. At last, I am to escape this task, 

 to a certain extent, in the advertising of 

 the book " Advanced Bee Culture " as the 

 publishing and selling of this book has 

 been turned over to the A. I. Root Co. A 

 new edition is now out, and all of the par- 

 ticulars are given in a late issue of 

 Gleanings. This notice of the new edi- 

 tion is as follows: 



About twenty-five years ago W. Z. 

 Hutchinson, editor of The Bee-keepers' 

 Review, was producing comb honey by 

 hiving swarms on frames without founda- 

 tion. In many respects this was similar 

 to the Simmins non-swarming plan; but 

 Mr. Hutchinson, apparently, did not have 

 so much in mind the idea of preventing 

 swarming as the production of fancy 

 comb honey, and at the same time save 

 the cost of foundation. His experiments 

 at the time were written up fully in 

 Gleanings. These articles aroused so 

 much interest at the time that A. !. Root 

 prevailed upon him to write a booklet de- 

 scribing his system. This appeared in due 

 time, and was entitled "The Production 

 of Comb Honey." 



In ihe meantime, Mr. Hutchinson start- 

 ed The Bee-keepers' Review. After this 

 had been running a few years, during 

 which time he took up special topics, the 

 edition of his little book was exhausted, 

 and he was prevailed upon again to write 

 a much larger work, taking in not only 

 his system for the production of comb 

 honey but all these other special- topic 

 subjects as well. The new work, entitled 

 "Advanced Bee Culture," appearing in 

 1 905. was printed and illustrated on the 

 finest enameled book paper. The illus- 

 trations were all original, for the author 

 had taken up photography. Some of his 

 photographs illustrating various bee sub- 

 jects are veritable works of art. 



While the work was designed for only a 

 very limited class of bee-keepers, the 

 edition was exhausted some months ago. 



Having a good many calls for it I wrote 

 to Mr. Hutchinson, inquiring why he could 

 not get out a new edition. 1 received 

 back word from his wife that Mr. Hutch- 

 inson was sick in the hospital, and had 

 been there some months. After our friend 

 had partially recovered, the thought oc- 

 curred to me that possibly 1 myself might 

 be able to revise the book by inserting in 

 their proper places recent editorials that 

 had appeared in The Bee-keepers' Re- 

 view. As there seemed no immediate 

 prospect of his early recovery, 1 wrote 

 him suggesting that 1 undertake the work 

 for him. saying that my somewhat ex- 

 tended experience in revising and revising 

 and revising again the various editions of 

 the A B C and X Y Z of Bee Culture 

 might qualify me for a similar work on 

 " Advanced Bee Culture." 



JOINING OLD AND NEW. 



After some correspondence this was 

 agreed to. The task then devolved upon 

 me of going over old volumes of The Bee- 

 keepers' Review since the last edition of 

 "Advanced Bee Culture" had been pub- 

 lished, selecting such of the editorial writ- 

 ings as would be suitable to incorporate 

 in the new work, and crossing out old 

 matter that might be in conflict with it. 

 After a few evenings' work (for I had no 

 other time to devote to it) I finally got the 

 matter all together and turned it over in- 

 to the hands of the linotypers — not until, 

 however, 1 had submitted to Mr. Hutch- 

 inson all the changes that I proposed 

 making and the manner of incorporating 

 the same into the work. 1 received back 

 a postal card from the sick man, reading 

 something like this: " I marvel at the skill 

 of your selection, and also your manner of 

 joining new matter on to old; in fact, you 

 have made just about such changes as I 

 would have made had 1 had the strength 

 and the health to do it." 



In the line of changes I may say that 

 most of the chapters were so carefully 

 and accurately written at the very be- 

 ginning that very little change was need- 

 ed; but the progress of the art had been 

 such in some others that some radical 

 changes were needed For example, great 

 progress has been made in the matter of 

 producing extracted honey, the treatment 

 of bee-diseases, rendering wax, and win- 

 tering bees. 



During the years since the first edition 

 of "Advanced B=e Culture" was pub- 

 lished, Mr. Hutchinson has had a large 

 experience in the field, especially in out- 

 apiary work. He and his brother Elmer 

 have tested many new devices, as well as 

 having discovered some new kinks to the 



