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



H. H. Root, Assistant Editor. E. R. Root, Editor. A. L. Boydkn, Advertising Manacer 



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



Entered at the Postoffice, Medina, C, as Second-class matter. 



VOL. XL 



OCTOBER 1, 1912 



NO. 19 



Editorial 



HONEY-CROP CONDITIONS. 



By consulting our Honey Column it 

 would ajDiaear from the reports that the 

 market in some localities is a little quiet, 

 owing to the heavy arrivals of fruit ; but 

 the demand will undoubtedly pick up. In 

 some places the arrivals of honey are slow 

 in coming in. The demand for comb 

 honey is active in most places, while in 

 nearly all of them the market for extract- 

 ed is stationary or a little slow. As we 

 reported in our last issue, the crop of 

 buckwheat honey will be light. It is ap- 

 parent also that in some sections of the 

 West, the honey season is below average, 

 particularly on the western slope of the 

 Rockies. 



THE FRED W. MUTH CO. BURNED OUT. 



On the 10th of last month the ware- 

 house and store of the Fred W. Muth Co., 

 51 Walnut St., Cincinnati, was visited by 

 a destructive fire. Evidently the fire had 

 been smouldering for hours and finally 

 broke out in early morning. There was 

 $30,000 worth of goods in the building, on 

 which there was an insurance of $22,500. 

 As there was not an entire loss, the com- 

 pany probably will not lose much. A new 

 building has been rented at 204 Walnut 

 St., within a square of the former loca- 

 tion, and the company will be able to do 

 business again within a couple of Aveeks 

 at the furthest. 



UNRELIABLE PRESS REPORTS CONCERNING 

 HONEY. 



In our issue for Aug. 15, page 509, we 

 published a statement from the Montrose 

 Press, in which it Avas predicted that the 

 crojj on the AA'estern slope of Colorado 

 would amount to 35 or 40 carloads this 

 year. This clipping was sent us by a cor- 

 respondent, and we supposed it Avas rea- 

 sonably correct or that he Avould not have 

 sent it ; but Ave have been informed by 

 several parties that the crop will be only 

 about one-fourth of the amount stated. 



We are very sorry that the statement ap- 

 peared; but it is almost imi3ossible for us 

 at long range to knoAv Avhether all the 

 statements made about the honey-crop 

 conditions are correct. HoAvever, we have 

 about decided that we will no more ac- 

 cept statements concerning crop conditions 

 from the ordinary neAvspaper. In the 

 mean time Ave hope our friends all over 

 the country will take pains to giA^e us the 

 exact facts. It is our sincere desire to 

 publish only the truth. 



CANADIAN GOVERNMENT BULLETIN ON BEES. 



The Division of Entomology of the 

 Canadian Department of Agriculture has 

 issued Bulletin No. 2, by C. Gordon HeAvitt, 

 D.Sc, Dominion Entomologist, entitled 

 "The Honey Bee." This bulletin is very 

 full and explicit, and will be of immense 

 help to beginners especially in Canada. 

 In fact, as the introduction states, the bul- 

 letin is prepared especially to ansAver the 

 following question, which is asked in 

 countless letters that are continually re- 

 ceived: ''I should like to keep bees, and 

 should like to have you tell me how to 

 begin and what to do." 



The beginner is taught how to begin, and 

 hoAv to locate the apiai-y. Excellent advice 

 is given regarding equipment, and sim- 

 l^licity of fixtures, etc., and then follows 

 a description and explanation of various 

 paraphernalia connected Avith the business. 

 A fcAv helpful notes on the habits of bees 

 and their natural history are given; but 

 the leading part of the bulletin is devoted 

 to management, and also to that all-im- 

 portant phase of the question, disease and 

 its treatment. The illustrations from our 

 OAvn "Farmers' Bulletin" No. 442 are used, 

 shoAving the conditions of the dead larvae 

 of both varieties of diseases. 



Among the half-tone illustrations is a 

 very fine picture of the Sibbald hot-water 

 wax-jiress, which was described some years 

 ago in these columns. In brief, the Sib- 

 bald press uses a can large enough to re- 



