1902 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



551 



Oh how I do wish some of the readers of 

 Gleanings could call on us! We don't 

 have many visitors out here in the woods, 

 and I have ever so many things (besides 

 that bee-hive) to show to my friends, and to 

 talk about. Ernest has talked about com- 

 ing-; and after he has been here I think he 

 will find I am not exactlj^ "starting life 

 anew as a farmer," in the usual wa}' at 

 least. 



Bingham, Mich. 



[The hive that father describes is the 

 Danzenbaker with closed -end frames. I 

 had long wished him to try this hive that 

 we were selling, and with which he had 

 had no practical experience. I particular- 

 ly wished him to see that closed-end frames 

 could be handled easily, especially when 

 properly designed. 



While father knows I claim no credit for 

 "inventing" these things, it is a pleasure 

 for me to know that he approves of my judg- 

 ment in the selection of some of these new 

 old things, and which I have sometimes 

 thought he prematurely discarded in his 

 earlier experiences. 



While I have always had the greatest re- 

 spect for his opinions, I have done \\\y own 

 independent thinking. Sometimes, and per- 

 haps generally, I have arrived at his con- 

 clusions. At other times I have formed a 

 different opinion. But in late years our 

 views converge more and more, not neces- 

 sarily because he comes to nij' way of think- 

 ing, but because I go to his. 



It seems a little odd to find A. I. Root a 

 contributor on bees to Gleanings, and that 

 I should "footnote" what he ma}^ say, as 

 he used to do years ago for some of 3'ou 

 who read these lines. But my good mother 

 reminds me that she is the mother of a man 

 40 years old. How time does fly! Old Fa- 

 ther Time makes wonderful changes in all 

 of us. — The Forty-year-old Man.] 





^ e.B. noo-r 



Referring to the new edition of "Ad- 

 vanced Bee Culture," by the editor of the 

 Review, I gave, perhaps, the impression 

 in our last issue that it was simply a re- 

 print in new dress. I wish to state that 

 the book has not only been revised, but new 

 matter has been added; and in the line of 

 the printer's art it leaves nothing to be de- 

 sired. Mr. Hutchinson is not only an up- 

 to-date bee-keeper, but an up-to-date print- 

 er — 3'es, I will say art printer. 



On the 11th of June the wife of Mr. Fran- 

 cis Danzenbaker, well known to our read- 

 ers, died, after a long and painful illness, 

 at Claymont, Del. She was loved, and ad- 

 mired by all who knew her, and Mr. Dan- 

 zenbaker has our sincere sympathy in his 



bereavement. Our friend has not been able 

 to attend to business matters, nor to the 

 consideratfon of his hive, for some months 

 back. He felt that his first duty w^as at 

 the bedside of his loving wife, and he has 

 been constant in his attentions to her. All 

 honor to him for it. Those of our readers 

 who have written to Mr. Danzenbaker re- 

 garding his hive, and who have received 

 very brief replies, or perhaps none at all, 

 will be able to understand why he was not 

 able to do more. 



BEE-GROWERS. 



What is the matter with the term "bee- 

 growers" as applied to us by the average 

 writers in the secular or daily press? We 

 hear about stock-raisers, poultry-fanciers, 

 horse-breeders, sheep-growers, and bee- 

 keepers; but the constant repetition of the 

 word "bee-keeper" leads to much tautolo- 

 gy (a repetition) in bee- journal literature. 

 The Rev. L. L. Langstroth used to use the 

 word "apiarian." But that seems to have 

 gone out of use. What objection is there to 

 our accepting- the word bee-growers f It is 

 accurate, and has alreadj" grown into ex- 

 tensive use everywhere except in journals 

 devoted to the subject of bee-keeping. 



cook's manual of THE APIARY. 



The new revision of the nineteenth thou- 

 sand of the " Bee-keeper's Guide, or Man- 

 ual of the Apiary," by Prof. A. J. Cook, 

 published by Geo. W. 'York & Co., Chica- 

 go, is now out. It has been most thorough- 

 ly revised, and is enlarged by the addition 

 of about 80 pages and 75 engravings. I 

 have read over in a hurried way several of 

 the chapters, and the}^ all seem to bear the 

 brand of 1902, and all of it orthodox, at 

 least from \\\y point of view. So skillfully 

 .has the old matter been blended with the 

 new that one would never suspect the book 

 had not been written from beginning to end 

 this 3'ear. The scientific as well as the 

 practical part has been gone over com- 

 pletely; and while the book has alwaj-s 

 been a standard, both in Europe and Amer- 

 ica, it is now "clear at the front in bee- 

 keeping science and practice." I congrat- 

 ulate the publishers as well as the author. 

 We can furnish it from this office for Si. 20 

 postpaid, or clubbed with Gleanings one 

 year for $1.75. 



bees AT THE WORLD'S FAIR. 



We have received from the General Press 

 Bureau of the World's Fair the following, 

 which will be of interest to bee-keepers: 



The World's Fair nianagement. in their plan and 

 scope of the Exposition, declared they wanted live 

 exhibits: so. in oasting abont for plans to make our 

 exhibit conform to that idea v:ft interested one of our 

 wealthiest and most public-spirited citizens. Mayor 

 Swink, of Rocky Ford. Mr. Swink is an apiarist, and 

 he has, perhaps, the largest bee-plant in America. He 

 is going to bring his bees to the World's Fair, and they 

 will work here' from the time the Exposition opens 

 tintil it closes. Mr. .Swiuk's plai:, which will cost fully 

 llO.nOO of his own money, is to bring to St. Louis 

 enough bee-hives to construct in miniature a counter- 

 part of the Colorado State-house at Denver. The bees 



