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



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



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



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



VOL. XLI. 



NOVEMBER 15, 1913 



NO. 22 



Editorial 



The editor of this journal expects to at- 

 tend the convention of the Ontario Bee- 

 keepers' Association, at Toronto, on Nov. 

 18, 19, and 20. See progTam in convention 

 column. He also hopes to attend the New 

 York State convention. Dee. 2 and 3, at 

 Rochester; and, later on, the Iowa State 

 meeting, Dec. 10, 11, and 12, at Des Moines. 



DEATH OF I. R. GOOD, THE INTRODUCER OF THE 

 GOOD CANDY FOR MAILING QUEEN-BEES. 



Some twenty-five or thirty years ago Mi'. 

 I. R. Good was more or less of a contributor 

 to these columns. During this time he, like 

 A. I. Root, was experimenting with new^ 

 things. Wliile A. 1. R. was fussing with 

 water-bottles so that queens could be sent 

 by mail in connection with hard candy, I. R. 

 Good was working in another direction — 

 namely, that of making a soft moist candy 

 which would not require the use of water; 

 and it was so much of a success that it has 

 been used clear up to the present time, and 

 we may never find any thing any better. 

 A. I. R. immediately dropped the hard- 

 candy proposition and adopted the Good 

 candy in his queen-cages. So successful was 

 lie with it that he became very enthusiastic 

 about it at the time. Other queen-breeders 

 adopted it until its use became almost uni- 

 versal ; for Mr. Good was Good enough to 

 give this valuable idea to the beekeeping 

 world; and now that he has passed away 

 we are in duty bound to recognize his con- 

 tribution to the onward progress of bee 

 culture in this country. It is proper to say, 

 however, that Mr. Good was not, perhaps, 

 the original discoverer of the method for 

 making soft candy for bees. One Scholtz, 

 of Europe, seems to have had a little prior- 

 ity ; but Mr. Good should have the credit of 

 introducing the candy into the United States. 

 Mr. Scholtz, if he was the original discover- 

 er, probably did not know the value of his 

 discovery, wliile Mr. Good did, and imme- 

 diately made it available to the beekeeping 

 public of the United States. In so doing he 

 conferred a gi-eat favor on his brother-bee- 

 keepers. 



Mr. Good thought enough of his friend 



A. 1. Root and Gleanings to name his son 

 Amos I. Mr. Good adds that his father 

 " fell asleep in Jesus " on Sunday muniing, 

 Oct. 5 last. 



OUR carload of bees on the way to 



FLORIDA. 



Before this reaches our readers we shall 

 have a carload of three hundred colonies on 

 the way to Florida. One of our most ex- 

 perienced men will go with them, and we 

 are going to try out the proposition of mak- 

 ing the bees stay on the job ten months in 

 the year instead of only five. Every North- 

 ern beekeeper knows that his capital — his 

 bees, hives, and appliances — have to be idle 

 in winter quarters anywhere from six to 

 seven months in the year. This is not all. 

 He will lose some, and all the colonies will 

 dwindle in strength by next spring. It takes 

 a lot of stores to build them up again. We 

 are going to see if we oan not cut down this 

 idle time to one or two months, and make 

 increase instead of a decrease. 



We have changed our plan somewhat 

 since our announcement in the last issue. 

 Instead of building up the 300 to 300 two- 

 story colonies for the production of extract- 

 ed honey, and then splitting them up into 

 600 o«e-story colonies after the honey-flow, 

 we are going to run them for increase, mak- 

 ing the production of extracted honey sec- 

 ondaiy ; that is to say, we shall extract just 

 enough to give the queens room. We shall 

 begin dividing in the midst of ti-ti; and 

 when nectar from natural sources fails we 

 shall keep up feeding. 



Our apiai-ist, Mr. Ernest Marchant, was 

 born and reared in that locality where he is 

 going to take the bees. He was for years 

 under the tutelage of his father, who is 

 acknowledged to be one of the best bee- 

 masters in the United States. A stranger 

 could hardly go into that region and make 

 a success of a venture of this kind. In fact, 

 the same thing might be said of almost any 

 locality with which a beeman is not familiar. 



Mr. A. B. Marchant will operate further 

 up the river; and after his honey crop has 

 been secured, he will possibly be able to 



