1908 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



= POPULAR BOOKS 



1479 



The Honey-Makers. 



By Miss Margaret W. Morley. This is the story of the life 

 of the bee, told in very interesting style — how it lives, 

 gathers honey, and all about it. While clothing the gener- 

 al subject with an air of poetry, it seems to be entirely with- 

 in the limits of known facts while attempting to deal with 

 them. We believe it will give all thoughtful bee-keepers 

 a greater liking for their business to read it. Probably it 

 has more to do with the curious traditions connected with 

 bees than any other book of the kind. Price $1.50 postpaid; 

 by freight or express, 10 cents less. 



The Life of the Bee. 



By Maeterlinck. This is a masterpiece of fine writing by a 

 modern Shakespeare. The words 6y from the pen of this 

 writer like sparks from a blacksmith's anvil, the result be- 

 ing a glorification of the honey-bee. Maeterlinck is con- 

 sidered by many to be the finest writer now living, and any 

 thing from him is sure to be worth reading. He is, to a cer- 

 tain extent, familiar with bee-keeping, but the truth about 

 bees does not interest him so much as the romance of the 

 queen and the drone and the swarming instfnct. The book 

 itself is well bound and beautifully printed. Cloth bound, 

 42 pages. Ed. 1903, price $1.40 postpaid; by freight or ex- 

 press, 10 cts. less. 



The Bee People. 



A book on bees, especially for children, from the pen of 

 Margaret W. Morley. Including its elegant illustrations, it 

 is, in some respects, the prettiest bee-book in existence. It 

 has 177 pages, very coarse print, the reading being ingen- 

 iously interwoven with the illustrations showing the parts of 

 the bee. The story of bee-life is told in a fascinating man- 

 ner, and is well calculated to get the casual reader, as well 

 as children, interested in this useful insect. The cuts go 

 just enough into detail to explain fully the lesson taught, 

 without confusing the mind with other things. We think 

 the book well worthy a place in every bee-keeper's home. 

 Fittingly designed cover. Price $1.50 postpaid; by freight 

 or express, deduct 10 cents. 



The Swarm. 



By Maurice .Maeterlinck, author of the Life of the Bee. This 

 is a book of 113 pages, prettily bound in cloth. Price $1.20 

 postpaid; by freight or express, 10 cents less. 



The Bee-Master of Warriiow. 



Tickner Edwardes. Cloth bound, 54 pages; 57 cents post- 

 paid; by freight or express, 7 cents less. 



The Lore of the Honey-Bee. 



By Tickner Edwardes, author of "The Bee-.VIaster of Warri- 

 iow," "An Idler in the Wilds," etc. Setting aside the many 

 popular technical treatises on bee-keeping, there is at present 

 no work by a modern English writer dealing with this faci- 

 nating subject, from the literary and antiquarian, as well as 

 the scientific point of view. Succinctly, The Lore of the 

 Honey-Bee is a history of bees and their masters from the 

 very earliest times down to the present. The wonderful 

 communal life within the hive is touched on in all its vary- 

 ing aspects; and the reader is introduced to a class of men 

 from all ages as quaintly original as their calling is inimit- 

 ably picturesque. The book covers the whole field of as- 

 certained facts in the natural history of the honey-bee, as 

 well as the romance of beemanship past and present; and 

 nothing better could be put in the hands of the beginner in 

 apriculture, no less than in those of the advanced student of 

 what is probably the oldest human occupation under the sun. 

 Price $2.00 postpaid. 



Bee-keepers' Ten-cent Library. 



The following books are neatly bound in attractive papers, 

 well illustrate'!. Just the thing for the beginners to help 

 them with their troubles. Price ten cents each postpaid. 



No. 1. BEE-KEEPERS' DICTIONARY. 



No 2. INMATES OF THE HIVE. 



No. 3. HONEY-COMB. 



No. 4. HANDLING BEES. 



No. 5. TRANSFERRING BEES. 



No. 6. BUILDING UP COLONIES. 



No. 7. THE HONEY-FLOW. 



No. 8. SWARMING. 



No. 11. WINTERING BEES. 



No. 12. SPRING MANAGEMENT OF BEES. 



No. 13. BEE DISEASES. 



No. 15. ESTABLISHING AN APIARY. 



No. 16. MODERN QUEEN-REARING. We have also 

 a French edition entitled " Elevage Moderne de Reines," 

 and a Scandinavian edition entitled " Moderne Dronningavl," 

 25 cts. each. 



No. 17. HABITS OF THE HONEY-BEE. 



No. 18. BEE-KEEPING FOR CLERGYMEN. 



No. 19. BEE-KEEPING FOR WOMEN. 



No. 21. FACTS ABOUT BEES. 



No. 23. BEE-KEEPING IN JAMAICA. 



No. 24. BEE-KEEPING IN THE WEST INDIES. 



No. 25. HOW TO PRODUCE EXTRACTED HONEY. 



No. 26. THE DZIERZON THEORY. 



No. 27. DOVETAILED HIVE AND ITS USES. 



No. 28. DIVISIBLE-BROOD-CHAMBER HIVE. 



No. 29. MOVING AND SHIPPING BEES. 



A Bee-Model. 



Nearly every bee-keeper is desirous of knowing the main 

 facts of bee anatomy and physiology, but usually is deterred 

 from investigating the subject by the formidable character 

 of the work involved, and mentally decides to defer it to 

 some more convenient season. There is no good reason for 

 doing this if they possess one of our new bee-models where- 

 with any amateur bee-keeper can obtain a comprehensive 

 idea of the whole anatomy of the bee at a glance. 



This is done by means of a skeleton bee of a large size 

 made out of cardboard. Each individual part is numbered, 

 and by consulting the key the name of it may instantly be 

 found. The size of the artificial queen is 5x7 inches, and 

 the drone 5^x4^, so that each part is sufliciently large to 

 enable the student to get a good clear view of it. This is 

 the important feature, and it is one that is not usually under- 

 stood by those who may never have seen one of these bee- 

 models. 



The bee-model is gotten up on the style of a little girl's 

 paper doll It looks outwardly like a large brown bee 

 pasted to a piece of cardboard. On lifting the outer flap the 

 whole anatomy of the bee is unfolded. The various parts 

 may be all seen by lifting all the flaps in their order. The 

 following parts of a queen are shown: Antennje, scape, 

 compound eyes, ocelli, claws, tarsus, planta, tibia, femur, 

 velum, scraper, thorax, abdomen, anterior wing, posterior 

 wing, air-tubes, air-sacs, trachte, base of compound eyes, 

 gullet, honey-sac, chyle-stomach, ileum, large intestine, vent, 

 stomach-mouth, malpighian tubes, rectal glands, poison-sac, 

 ovaries, oviduct, mucus duct, semen-duct, spermatheca, gland, 

 vagina, upper-gullet nerves, nnder-gullet nerves, optic nerves, 

 ganglia of fore legs, general system of nerves, For the 

 drone the list is the same except for the reproductive system, 

 as follows: Testes, seminal duct, seminal vessels, mucus 

 glands, ductus seminalis ejacularis, penis-sac, horns of the 

 male organ, fan-shaped appendage, male organ. 



By means of this model and a careful study for a few 

 weeks the average bee-keeper could learn to name each part 

 of the bee's anatomy correctly without the least hesitation. 



With this aid to knowledge in his possession there is real- 

 ly no excuse for any bee-keeper remaining ignorant on 

 these points. Besides being ingenious these bee-models are 

 artistic and scientific, and well worth the price asked for a 

 pair (queen and drone), namely, $1.00 postpaid. Single 

 copy of either queen or drone, 50 cents. A key accompanies 

 each. 



The A. I. Root Company, Medina, Ohio 



