Jan. 25, 1900. 



AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL, 



59 



Root's Column 



-THE — 



ABC 



Bee - Culture 



Revised in 1899-67,000 publisht. 

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Read what F. Danzenbaker, the in- 

 ventor of the Danz. Hive, says of this 

 book. There are few bee-keepers who 

 have spent so much of a study of the 

 production of fancy comb honey as has 

 Mr. Danzenbaker, and his opinion of 

 the work should be read by all who 

 contemplate purchasing- such a work. 



Mr. E. R. Root:— I have read former editions 

 of the A B C of Bee-Culture, and I have care- 

 fully read all of the latest. It is so f;rreatly im- 

 proved, and brou^rht down to date, brimful of 

 the latest experiences of the most successful 



F. Daiizc7ibnker. 



methods in all departments, that it might well 

 be rechristened, "Bee-Keeping- from A to Z." 

 The hundreds of expensive and beautiful illus- 

 trations display to the eye what the text con- 

 veys to the mind, in a way to cover the entire 

 field of apiculture, for beginners and veterans 

 alike. 



It is worth many times its cost to a beginner 

 with but a single colony, and to those who have 

 handled hundreds of colonies half a lifetime as 

 well. It would have been worth thousands of 

 dollars to me if I could have had such a book 

 40 years ago, and I would not take $51) for the 

 copy I have now if I could not get another. 



If it could be placed in every school and 

 library in our land, for the instruction of the 

 masses, it would greatly increase the consump- 

 tion as well as the production of honey, adding 

 greatlj' to the health and wealth of the people. 

 F. Danzenbaker. 



Washington, D. C. Jan. 8, 1900. 



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and if heavily packt, do not respond to out- 

 side warmth as more exposed colonies." 



In reply, Mr. IJoolittle seems to think 

 that colonies in chatT hives will not come 

 out weak in the spring, and says; 



" With outdoor wintering not one colony 

 in ten will come out strong when wintered 

 in single-walled hives, in this locality, 

 while with chaff hives, those having two or 

 three inches of chaff packing, nine out of 

 ten will be in good working order, and in 

 two weeks' time will have double the 

 amount of brood of that of the strong one, 

 in the single-walled hive. Single-walled 

 hives are only fit for cellar-wintering in 

 this locality, and even then they are better 

 off left in the cellar till settled warm 

 weather comes. A trial of both side by 

 side for the past 2.5 years, shows these 

 things to be facts about here. And herein 

 we have 'furalily making all of the differ- 

 ence." 



Point!^ in Bees. — For the past few 

 years the most important point to breed 

 for has seemed to be color — at least in a 

 great many cases. Queen-breeders tell us 

 that purchasers have wanted more than 

 anything else yellow bees. Now there seems 

 to be a swing of the pendulum toward bees 

 that have good qualities aside from color. 

 Editor Root, in Gleanings in Bee-Culture, 

 gives his idea of five points in the order of 

 their importance, upon which a Stray 

 Straw discourses as follows: 



" Your classification of points for bees, 

 Mr. Editor, is good: 1. Ability to get 

 honey: 2. Good wintering ability; 3' Dis- 

 inclination to swarm: 4. Good temper; .5. 

 Good color. Posssbly some other points 

 ought to come in and shove color lower 

 down, as whiteness of surplus combs. I 

 rather think I'd want 2 and .3 to change 

 places, making non-swarming come next 

 after honey-getting." 



Some Poiiitei's on Queen-Rear- 

 ing are given by W. H. Pridgen in Glean- 

 ings in Bee-Culture. He favors having the 

 upper story for queen-rearing separated by 

 division-boards into three apartments, 

 then if accidentally a virgin queen is pres- 

 ent there will not be the loss of so many 

 cells. Instead of transferring a larva, he 

 prefers transferring the cocoon or bottom 

 of the cell, larva and all. Select larvae too 

 small to transfer otherwise; transfer with 

 the cocoon, give to bees taken from a hive 

 with a laying queen, said bees having been 

 shaken from the combs six hours previ- 

 ously, and 24 hours later give to the cell- 

 builders. Or. take larvfe of the size usually 

 transferred, transferring with cocoon, put- 

 ting at once in upper story without first 

 giving to queenless bees for 24 hours. 

 Either of these two ways will save using 

 up cells to furnish royal jelly. Instead of 

 giving queen-cells to nuclei, give ,iust- 

 hatcht queens. It is quite possible that in- 

 stead of having the combs for cells between 

 combs with young brood, it may be better 

 to have them between combs containing 

 sealed brood. 



Avoiding Obstruction ot <{ii«en- 

 Cells, especially at swarming-time, has 

 been a desideratum. F. L. Thompson tells 

 in the Progressive Bee-Keeper how Geo. E. 

 Dudley manages to have a queen caught in 

 a trap when a colony swarms, and still 

 allow free egress and ingress for the work- 

 ers, as follows: 



" He uses two entrances, to only one of 

 which he applies the queen-trap (an ordi- 

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 tion). The queen always comes out thru 

 this entrance, and is always caught in the 

 trap; but the workers return from the 

 fields thru the other entrance, the unob- 

 structed one, tho they use both entrances 

 indifferently when they leave the hive. 

 This is accomplisht by a modification of the 

 bottom-board, so simple that I believe it 

 would pay manufacturers to make all their 

 bottom-boards on this principle. About 

 two-thirds of the board, the rear end, is 

 composed of a solid board, as usual ; but the 

 front third is composed of two 34-inch 

 pieces, the top of the upper one being on a 



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