Cleamiiegg im Bee Cualttere 



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



A. I. Root, Editor Home Department J. T. Calvert, Business Manaser. 



H. H. Hoot, Managing Editor E. R. Root, Editor A. L. Boyden, Advertising Manager 



Entered at the Postoffice, Medinsi, Ohio, as secoad-class matter. 



VOL. XLIII. 



NOVEMBER 15, 1915 



NO. 22 



EDETOEIAL 



The Ohio State Convention at Akron, 



Nov. 26, 27 



A SPLENDID program is in preparation, 

 and a number of speakers from various 

 parts of the state, including Dr. E. F. 

 Phillips, of Washington, D. C, will be 

 present. Indications go to show that this 

 will probably be the best convention we 

 have ever held. 



Mr. A. J. Halter, of Akron, writes: '' T 

 have made arrangements at Garfield Hotel 

 for visitors for convention, Nov. 26 and 27. 

 Rates .fl.OO per day for single rooms, $1.50 

 with bath, or $1.50 per double room." 



Of course the Root forces will be present, 

 and some have expressed a desire to go, 

 after the convention, from Akron to Medina 

 in automobiles to visit the Root plant. If 

 the roads are good the trip can be very 

 easily made, as Medina is only 20 miles 

 west of Akron. Visitors are always welcome 

 at Medina. 



Akron is the rubber city of the world. 

 It makes more automobile tires and rubbei- 

 specialties than all the rest of tlie United 

 States put together, and it possibly equals 

 the output of all the rest of the world. We 

 understand an opportunity will be given to 

 the Ohio beekeepers to go through one of 

 the biggest plants at the close of one of the 

 sessions. 



Motor-cycle Accident to one of the 

 Men Formerly Connected with The 

 A. I. Root Company's Apiaries 



Rev. Geo. W. Phillips, formerly of 

 .Jamaica, B. W. I., and later foreman of the 

 apiaries of the A. I. Root Company, au- 

 tlior of "Modern Queen-rearing," and the 

 A. I. Root Company's Correspondence 

 Course in Beekeeping, met with a severe 

 motor-cycle accident from which he nearly 

 lost his life. He suffered a fractured skull, 

 a broken arm, and a sliattered kneecap. 

 However, he is now on the rapid road to 

 recovery, and jjerhans the only permanent 

 injury will be a stiff knee. 



Mr. Phillips, after he left Medina, took 



a college course, and later a seminary 

 course, graduatii'xg with high honors. He 

 has been connected with various large 

 churches, and is now pastor of the First 

 Baptist Church, Hamilton, Ohio. He not 

 only can preach Christ, but he can talk bees. 

 Besides his long exiDerienee in managing our 

 series of yards and raising queens in small 

 baby nuclei at Medina, he owned and ope- 

 rated several large ai:)iaries in Jamaica be- 

 fore he came to this country. 



Right Church, but Wrong Pew 



Two recipes, pages 812 and 813, Oct. 1, 

 got separated. Some one may be following 

 a recipe for pudding sauce and expecting it 

 to turn out fruit cookies. 



The last recipe in the first column, page 



812, entitled " Cookies," should be followed 

 by the third recipe in the first column, page 



813, which has no title, but reads as fol- 

 lows : " Fruit cookies are made in the same 

 way," etc. 



The completed recipe should read as fol- 

 lows : 



COOKIES. 



One cup extracted honey ; one cup light-brown 

 sugar ; 2 eggs well beaten ; a level tablespoonful of 

 soda dissolved in 3 tablespoonfuls of vinegar; pinch 

 of salt; flour to stiffen (about 3 cupfuls in this al- 

 titude). Mix at night, and bake in the morning. 



Fruit cookies are made the same as the above by 

 adding one cup of shortening, one cup of chopped 

 raisins; V^ teaspoonful of cinnamon and allspice; 

 Vs teaspoonful cloves and nutmeg ; cream sugar and 

 shortening, and proceed as above. 



Colo, Iowa. Mrs. Oscar Tripp. 



The Insects' Homer 



At Avignon, in southern France, Henri 

 Fabre recently died at the age of ninety- 

 two. Probably not one beekeeper in ten 

 ever studied Henri Fabre, yet he was one 

 of the very few most learned entomologists 

 in the world, a member of the small and 

 obscure group of men who have given their 

 lives to the study of insects, and to the 

 study of the honevbee among the I'est. 



He pursued his investigations under great 



