Feb. 1, 1900. 



AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL 



75 



Root's Column 



-THE- 



ABC 



Bee -Culture 



Revised In iHqq. 

 The only Encyclopedia on Bees. 



Read what Dr. C. C. Miller says in 

 the National Stockman : 



"Not a bad index of the advance- 

 ment of bee-culture in this country is 

 the fact that besides two or three other 

 pood books on bee-keeping-, the ABC of 

 Bee=Culture has been so extensively 

 used that it has reacht its 67th thou- 

 sand. The name is rather a misnomer, 

 suggesting- as it does a small primer 

 for children. Instead of that IT is the 



MOST COMPREHENSIVE WORK IN THE 

 ENGLISH LANGUAGE PERTAINING TO 



BEES, and a more appropriate name 

 would be The Encyclopedia of Bee- 

 Culture. It contains 437 pages meas- 

 uring 9'<x6>4: inches each. It is pro- 

 fusely illustrated with fine pictures, 

 many of them full page, and is printed 

 on elegant paper in clear type that is a 

 delight to the eye. 



" It was first written by A. I. Root 

 something more than 20 years ago, but 

 bee-culture is not a science that is at a 

 stand-still, so during all these years 

 the book is kept standing in type, and 

 with every advance in bee-culture there 

 has been a change in type, ,so that the 

 book, now double its original size, is 

 just a little in the condition of a boy's 

 jack-knife ; he lost a blade and had a 

 new blade put in, then the handle was 

 broken and he got a new handle ; but 

 still it was ' the same old knife. ' The 

 work has been ably revised lately by 

 E. R. Root, son of A. I. Root, also a 

 skillful and experienced bee-keeper, 

 and the whole is entirely up-to-date 

 and practical. For one who has a 

 single colony of bees, and who desires 

 a work to which he can confidently 

 turn for an answer to the thousand and 

 one questions constantly coming up in 

 practical bee-work, it would be hard to 

 invest $1.20 more profitably than to 

 send for Root's A B C of Bee-Culture." 



Sold by dealers in bee-keepers' sup- 

 plies, or sent postpaid on receipt of 

 SI. 20. 



TDefl.l.RooiGoiiiDany 



MEDINA, OHIO. 



N. 8,— W^tgh fpr our ad, next week, 



teriuK, and the plan migbt well be consid- 

 ered by those who have a sufficient number 

 of colonies In a region where ordinary out- 

 door wintering may not be advisable— 

 where the winters are not tun cold for the 

 number of colonies kept. Of J. Bouck, Mr. 

 Thompson says: 



" Mr. Bouck, during the 7 or 8 years he 

 has put his bees in the house, has not lost a 

 single colony in the winter of those in- 

 doors. They are put in with settled cold 

 weather, and taken out about the middle of 

 March, being ke[)t in darkness and not al- 

 lowed to fly. The house is a mere lean-to 

 against the east side of a granary, com- 

 posed of inch boards, not battened, but the 

 chinks are stopt in winter for the purpose 

 of excluding the light. There is no floor. 

 A cat-hole from under the granary lets the 

 cats in to keep down the mice, and affords 

 ventilation. The room is about 11x14, and 

 the hives are piled all around the walls up 

 to the roof, facing in, with a row thru the 

 center. A tier is put in all about, then each 

 cover raised at one end by putting a half- 

 inch stick under, then another row set on, 

 and the covers raised, and so on till com- 

 pleted. The heat .from the.SO to 100 colo- 

 nies keeps the apartment so warm that a 

 bucket of water set in never freezes in the 

 severest weather, and the hired man gets 

 in the habit of dodging in there to get 

 warm." 



A Mass ol llccs Warms «lie fJel- 



lar.— Says Dr. Miller in Gleanings in Bee- 

 Culture: 



'■ Formerly I kept my bees in two cellars, 

 with the belief that the fewer bees the 

 purer the air. I've changed my practice 

 for the past few winters, and am shaky as 

 to my former belief. I now cram all the 

 bees into one room of my house-cellar — less 

 trouble to watch, and so many bees keep it 

 warm enough so Are is not often needed. 

 The warmer cellar makes better ventila- 

 tion. 



Editor Root then adds this comment: 

 "In a cold locality like that of Marengo, I 

 am rather of the opinion that a large num- 

 ber of colonies in the cellar is more condu- 

 cive to good results than a small number; 

 but in the vicinity of Medina, where we 

 have so much open winter (like spring to- 

 day, Jan. 6), and the weather outside is 

 even warmer than the atmosphere of the 

 cellar, then a small number of colonies will 

 give a better result." 



■>oeM tlie <(u«en Meet the Uroae 

 a Wecontl Time V— The editor of Glean- 

 ings in Bee-Culture is askt his opinion as to 

 the statement of Prof. C. F. Hodge in rela- 

 tion to the nuptial flight of a queen, " that 

 within 1.5 minutes after the bees had re- 

 moved the organs of the drone she flew 

 again, and in .5 minutes returned with a 

 second trophy of success" 



To this Editor Root replies : "The lan- 

 guage is susceptible of two or three inter- 

 pretations. One is, that Prof. Hodge be- 

 lieves that queens may meet the drone 

 more than once— before and after egg-lay- 

 ing; second, that they may be fertilized 

 two or more times he/ore actual egg-laying 

 begins, but not after; or third, what is 

 more probably true, the bees, on the return 

 of the young queen, in their efforts to re- 

 move the uiitsijle appendages, took out all 

 the organs of the drone, thus making the 

 first flight of the queen fruitless, rendering 



a second one necessary A strong fact 



against the theory that the queen meets the 

 drone a second time is that there has been 

 no absolute proof to the effect that the 

 progeny of any one queen changes from 

 black to Italian or I'ice verm. The flrst bees 

 hatcht by the queen will be like all the re?t 

 reared from that mother, no matter 

 whether she lives to be three months old 

 or three years. It is true, there have been 

 reports that the progeny of one queen 

 changed all their markings, but so far as I 

 can remember there have been too many 

 chances for error on the part of the ob- 

 server." 



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