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



A. I. KOOT, Editor Homo Depjininoiu .1. T. Calvkkt, Business Manager 



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Entered at tlie Postoflice, Medina, Ohio, as second-class matter. 



VOL. XLIII. 



DECEMBER 15, 1915 



NO. 24 



EDETOEIAL 



The reader will be interested particularly 

 in an article in this issue by B. Keep, about 

 the man who built his tine liousc from cellar 

 to gable himself with tiie money he made 

 from his bees. 



The National Beekeepers' Association 

 will hold its next convention in Chicago on 

 Feb. 22, 23, 24. Fuller announcements will 

 be given January 1. Chicago is a conven- 

 tion city, and the attendance at this meet- 

 ing ought to be a record-breaker. Evei'y 

 one who can should make his plans to go. 



yiu. Francis Jager^ of the State Univer- 

 sity of Minnesota, is sending out to the 

 beekeejiers and farmere of his state a circu- 

 lar letter on wintering bees. It is short, 

 crisp, and at the same time orthodox in its 

 teachings. It will do a great deal of good 

 to a large class of farmer beekeepers who 

 do not know the fundamental principles of 

 good wintering. 



We take pleasure in referring to our 

 index, which has been prepared with unu- 

 sual care. The reader, in order to get the 

 most out of his subscription price, should, 

 with the index before him, go over his back 

 numbers for the year, especially during the 

 long winter evenings, as many an article 

 that he was compelled to skip in the rush of 

 the season he can read and digest. 



An Alabama Queen-yard 



A COCOANUT-TKEE was the most prominent 

 feature of our December first cover picture. 

 This time it is a long-leaf pine, which 

 shelters a jmrtion of the queen-yard of W. 

 D. Achord, Fitzpatrick, Ala., who %vrites 

 the article entitled, "Building up a Business 

 in Shijiping Bees without Combs," which 

 appears on page 1031 of this issue. 



The cover illustration shows a portion of 

 his 400 mating-boxes at tiie home yard, as 

 they looked tlx' btter part of September. 



tliis year. Mr. Achord's residence stands in 

 the rear of the picture. 



Wintering Experiments on a Large 

 Scale 



Attention is drawn to an article on 

 wintering, by J. J. Anderson, in this issue, 

 Mr. Anderson is one of the extensive bee- 

 keepers of his state — a man of wide expe- 

 rience, and one well qualified to speak on 

 almost any question relating to bee culture. 

 He tried a series of experiments during the 

 winter of 1914 that are interesting and 

 valuable. Instead of trying out all these 

 different ways of packing on a small scale 

 he went at it in a large way, so the results 

 are all the more conclusive. 



We called on liim last winter, and the 

 photographs will help to show the different 

 methods he used for wintering. The results 

 go to show that the cellar came out a little 

 ahead ; and next in order in good wintering 

 was the Holtermann winter case, leaving 

 the other bees, packed in long rows, to come 

 out third and fourth. 



Testing out so many colonies with upper 

 entrances we regarded as a bold experi- 

 ment; and while the result is, perhaps, not 

 surprising, it is worth something to know 

 that practice bears out theory. 



Catch the Eye of the Cook 



The editor of The Mabel Becord, Mabel. 

 Minn., has started something. He has be- 

 gun to publish in his paper recipes from 

 Gleanings for October 1, and will continue 

 to print throe or four of them in each issue 

 until the close of the year. On January 1, 

 1916, the woman who reports on the largest 

 number of recipes will be given a gallon of 

 extracted honey. 



Recipes of this nature are sure to ]irove 

 interesting to readers. Here is an idea: 

 Get the editor of your local paper to run a 

 column or so of recipes ir. the same issue in 

 which your advertisement appears. Live 



