Feb. 8, 1900. 



AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



91 



Root's Column 



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 of the finest quality, best work- 

 manship, and good 

 treatment. 



Send for our catalog for 1900 which is 

 just ready. It is a real 



CYCLOPEDIA ' 



OF 



INFORMATION 



en all that pertains to Bee-Keepers' 

 Supplies. 



KText week we will begin a series of il- 

 lustrated ads. running two months. 

 Better watch for them. 



TiiGfl.l.RootGoiiiDanu 



MEDINA, OHIO. 





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Selling- Extracted Honey. 



Look on this piotiire: There is no sense 

 in the idea that honey to be good must be 

 white in color, nor that honey in tall sec- 

 tions is better than in square ones. My 

 honey this year was from white clover, 

 Koldenrod, asters and heartsease, all blend- 

 ed together, and many persons prefer this 

 honey to any other. A market can be had 

 in the northwest, or elsewhere, for such 

 honey in case bee-keepers demand it, and 

 are firm in asking the price it is worth. It 

 is my belief that bee-keepers have lost, and 

 are losing money, by not having the grit to 

 ask the price their honey is worth. It is 

 the weak-kneed fellows who lower or adul- 

 terate the price on honey for the rest of the 

 fraternity. Thus writes Harry Lathrop, in 

 substance, on page .'il, and I happen to 

 know that Harry's statements are not far 

 from the truth. 



Now look on this picture: My practice is 

 to put my extracted honey into 2-quart tin- 

 pails, holding 4}.,' pounds each, net weight, 

 and sell the whole package for 50 cents, 

 which gives me 10 cents per pound for the 

 honey, and covers the cost of the pail. Thus 

 writes a correspondent on page 60, same 

 number of the American Bee Journal. 



Now this bee-keeper must be one of the 

 "weak-kneed fellows " Harry refers to, or 

 had in mind. But it may be possible that 

 the price he asks, or gets tor his honey, and 

 from the consumer, is every cent it is 

 worth. Or possibly his market for honey 

 may have been glutted. The fact that he 

 got, as he says, " 60 pounds from 6.5 colo- 

 nies " would somewhat indicate that there 

 must have been a flood of something some- 

 where. M. M. Baldridge. 



U-. S., Jan. 37. 



Bees and Fruit— Requeening. 



I have been a constant reader of the 

 American Bee Journal for the past 4 years, 

 and feel that I could not get along without 

 it. It is indeed of great value to the bee- 

 keeper, and should be found in the homes 

 of all agriculturists, especially fruit-grow- 

 ers. Since I have been keeping bees I notice 

 that our cherry crop is much larger than 

 before, which, I believe, is caused by the 

 bees fertilizing the imperfect blossoms. 



We have 16 colonies of bees in fine condi- 

 tion, which we had requeened last tall with 

 the golden Italian. Two colonies we re- 

 queened in August do not prove very satis- 

 factory ; both queens have been laying and 

 rearing drones all fall (part drones and part 

 workers.) Will they be all right when 

 spring comes ? We got them tor tested 

 queens, from a responsible queen-breeder, 

 in Ohio. 



We are having a very pleasant winter so 

 far. The coldest weather we have had this 

 winter was Dec. 10, when the mercury 

 reacht 14'"* above zero. At present the mer- 

 cury stands at 60" above, and the bright 

 yellow bees are flying in great numbers be- 

 fore the hives. They are gathering some 

 pollen, and are flying about the water, 

 which are indications of brood-rearing. 

 George T. Smith. 



Whitman Co., Wash., Jan. IS. 



Getting Unflnisht Sections Cleaned. 



The following, on getting sections cleaned 

 out by the bees, may perhaps be of value to 

 some of the readers of the American Bee 

 Journal : 



" Those having but a limited number of 

 unflnisht sections, and who are surrounded 

 by neighboring bee-keepers, will hardly 

 care to pile them up outdoors or in the cel- 

 lar for the bees to clean out, as by this 

 course much of the honey will be taken by 

 our neighbors' bees. If the sections are 

 piled up on the hives (in supers) the bees ' 



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