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



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



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



Entered at tho Postoffice. Medina, Ohio, as second-class matter. 



VOL. XLIII. 



DECEMBER 1, 1915 



NO. 23 



EDITORIAL 



"1 



A REPORT of the Ohio State Beekeepers' 

 convention will appear in our next issue. 



The double telescope covers do not blow 

 off in a high wind like the single-board 

 covers. We have had ample evidence of 

 this at several of our outyards of late. 



The Cover Picture — A Porto Rican 

 Apiary 



Just as all landsmen love the sea, wheth- 

 er they have ever stood upon the shore or 

 not, so every inhabitant of the temperate 

 zone sometimes feels the call of the tropics. 

 The land of palm and pepper has a strong 

 fascination for us all whose homes are half- 

 way up toward the pole. 



The waving cocoanut of the cover picture 

 stands sentinel over an apiary of some 

 forty colonies, the property of Haydn Ran- 

 dall, of Garrochalles, P. R. The low trees 

 in the foreground are grapefruit, the rem- 

 nant of an abandoned grove. Just back of 

 them are almond trees. 



Mr. Randall has built up his apiary of 

 twenty colonies brought to the spot about a 

 j-ear before the picture was taken. The 

 section is not an excellent one as bee pas- 

 ture, since most of the land is devoted to 

 the culture of sugar cane. 



Dadant & Sons 



In our issue for Oct. 1.5, page 850, after 

 giving a general writeup of the general field 

 meet at the home of the Dadant & Sons, 

 Hamilton, 111., we promised later to intro- 

 duce the members of that firm to our read- 

 ers. We now have pleasure in doing this. 

 See page 996 this issue. 



Mr. L. G. Saugier is a son-in-law, who, 

 together with the sons, makes up the per- 

 sonnel of Dadant & Sons. They all appear 

 to be men who are willing to take off their 



coats and work whenever necessary. As we 

 have ah'eady explained, each has a depart- 

 ment of his own, and the Dadant business, 

 presided over by the father, C. P. Dadant, 

 runs just like clockwork. 



While they are direct competitors of the 

 A. I. Root Co., they afford the kind of 

 competition that boosts, not their own busi- 

 ness alone, but others also. They are most 

 emphatically not the kind of competitors 

 who are jealous of another's success. That 

 they have made a success of their business 

 is shown by the general air of prosperity 

 about the plant and about their homes. 



Theirs is the kind of organization that 

 is destined to continue, because it is bound 

 by blood ties — the strongest kind of ties this 

 world knows. 



Is there a Disposition to " knock " Ex- 

 tra Yellow Bees ? 



We have been accused by one of our 

 advertisers of unfairly " knocking " yellow 

 bees; and pei'haps he would almost think 

 that our correspondent, Mr. J. L. Byer, in 

 his department, page 971, this issue, and 

 the editor were working in collusion. The 

 fact is, we did not know before his opinion 

 on the subject. We have contended that 

 not all yellow bees are inferior; but so 

 many had proven such that we thought we 

 were only doing our readers a real service 

 by entering a word of caution. Some 

 breeders of these bees breed, first, for hon- 

 ey production ; second, for wintering qual- 

 ities; third, for color. When extra-yellow 

 color is secured with the other necessary 

 qualifications, there is no objection, of 

 course, to the bright yellow. Other things 

 being equal, they should have the prefer- 

 ence. But in some instances, at least, color 

 seems to have been the only desideratum. 

 Too many yellow bees have been first to die 

 during winter, and too many of them have 

 been cross — very cross; hence we have felt 



