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PubUshed by The A. I. Root Co., Medina, 0. 



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



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



Entered at the Postoflfice, Medina, O., as Second-class matter. 



VOL. XLI. 



JANUARY 1, 1913 



NO. 1 



Editorial 



Beekeepers of Ohio should remember 

 the Ohio State Beekeepers' convention at 

 Columbus, Townsend Hall, Oliio State Uni- 

 versity, Jan. 14 and 15 next. This promis- 

 es to be the most largely attended conven- 

 tion we have had for many a year. See 

 Convention Notices elsewhere. 



Mr. Doolittle^ in this issue, says he 

 would prefer to have long-lived bees for 

 honey-gathering, even if they are not quite 

 so numerous, rather than a populous colony 

 of short-lived ones. This is a fruitful field 

 for discussion. Perhaps some others would 

 like to give their experiences. 



WARM PALL WEATHER CAUSING BEES TO CON- 

 SUME THEIR STORES. 



In our Nov. 1st issue, page 679, we re- 

 ported the shortage of stores in New York. 

 Since then reports have come in from other 

 parts of the country showing that the un- 

 usual amount of warm weather in the fall 

 caused the bees to consume a much larger 

 amount of their stores than they ordinarily 

 do at this period. We predict now that 

 many colonies will die of starvation, wheth- 

 er the coming winter be mild or severe. 

 Don't take any thing for granted. Better 

 make an investigation at the first oppor- 

 tune time, and make sure that there are 

 stores enough. 



A CORRECTION. 



By mistake we credited the picture of 



the very fine honey exhibit as shown on 



page 811 of the December 15th issue to Mr. 



Myers, manager of the Spokane Interstate 



Fair, whereas it was sent us originally by 



Mr. F. W. Van De Mark, of Stillwater, 



Oklahoma, and represents tlie exhibit of B. 



F. Bartholomew at' the Oklahoma State 



Fair for 1912. We do not often make 



blunders of this kind; but we certainly 



" put our foot in it " on this occasion. 



Mr. Van De Mark's letter was duly re- 



^ ceived ; but the photograph he mentioned 



^ was delayed in the mails, and did not reach 



•— ' us until about a week later. It so happened 



that, when it did come in, the same mail 

 brought the other photogi'aph from Mr. My- 

 ers, and these two happened to be close to- 

 gether with Mr. Myers' letter. 



The letter of explanation from Mr. Van 

 De Mark, referring to the engraving on 

 page 811, we give herewith: 



I enclose a photo of B. F. Bartholomew's exhibit 

 at the Oklahoma State Fair for 1912, just closed. 

 The design in wax, reading " The Home of the 

 Honeybee," and the companion piece at the other 

 side, showing honey-plant with blossoms and bees 

 flying, are all hand-carved work. Few persons will 

 realize the work it has taken on the part of Mr. 

 Bartholomew and his good wife to put this one 

 thousand pounds of honey in glass, mount the hon- 

 ey-plants, and place the exhibit. All of the honey 

 and wax shown is the product of their ovsm bees, 

 and it represents about one-fifth of their honey crop 

 for the year. 



Besides the exhibit shown in the picture, there 

 were four others, nearly as good, which speak well 

 for a new State as a honey-producer. 



F. W. Van De Mark. 



The fault is our own in the above in- 

 stance; but at the same time we wish that 

 our readers, when sending photographs, 

 would take the precaution to write their 

 address plainly on the back of the photo- 

 graph itself, for the wrappers are often 

 torn or missing altogether, so that it is 

 sometimes difficult to identify each one. In 

 the course of a year we receive a large 

 number of photographs, of which we can 

 use only a small part, and it is of the great- 

 est importance that the addresses of the 

 senders be plainly marked on the back of 

 each, for many times the same mail brings 

 two or more photographs of a similar sub- 

 ject. 



CHARACTER OF MATERIAL USED IN BEGIN- 

 NERS^ NUMBER. 



In this issue, the first of our special num- 

 bers for 1913, our readers will observe that 

 we liave made no effort to select from the 

 material sent us only such articles as por- 

 tray the rosier side of beekeeping; in fact, 

 we have selected such articles as bring out 

 the mistakes commonly made by beginners. 



Lest any beginner reading these pages 

 should be discouraged at the start, and im- 



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