April 12, 1900. 



AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL 



235 



Root's Gommn 



What They Say. 

 WHO? 



Some of the larg-est producers of ex- 

 tracted honey in the United States. 



From the Bee-Keepers' Review, January, 1900. 

 " The extractor we use is the Cowan 

 reversible." 



Miss Ada L. Pickard, Richland Centre, Wis. 



Miss Pickard produced 16,000 pounds 

 in 1898, so she should be a g^ood judge. 



From the March Bee-Keepers' Review. 

 "I expect to purchase another ma- 

 chine ; for I want the extractor always 

 at hand read}' for use. Speaking- of 

 extractors, I would not trade my two- 

 frame Cowan machine, as made by the 

 A- I. Root Co., for any four-frame ma- 

 chine I ever saw. They work so easily, 

 and I think one person can extract 

 with them as rapidly as another can 

 uncap the combs." 



Harry Lathrop, Browntown, Wis. 



If Mr. Lathrop had tried one of our 

 1900 pattern, four or six frame 



BALL BEARING 



machines he, perhaps, would think dif- 

 ferently. However, we recommend the 

 two-frame Cowan Extractor unless one 

 has a very large amount to extract. 

 In that case do not fail to investigate 

 our larger sizes. 



Another feature found on the large 

 sizes is the 



BAND BRAKE. 



These machines are built for two, 

 four, or six frames of any size, and 

 the regular sizes may be had of the 

 following dealers : 



J. M. Jenkins, Wetumpka, Elmore Co., Ala. 

 M. R. Madary, Fresno, Calif. 

 The Union Hive & Box Co., Los Angeles, Calif. 

 The L.A.Watkins Mdse. Co., Denver,Colo. 

 Geo. W. York & Co., 118 Mich. St., Chicago, 111. 

 Walter S. Pouder, 512 Mass. Ave., Indianapolis, 



Indiana. 

 Jos. Nysewander, Des Moines, Iowa. 

 Carl F. Buck, Augusta, Butler Co., Kan. 

 Rawlings Implement Co., Baltimore, Md. 

 M. H. Hunt & Son, Bell Branch, Wayne Co., 



Michigan. 

 Ceo. E. Hilton, Fremont, Newavgo Co., Mich. 

 John Nebel & Son, High Hill, Montgomery Co., 



Missouri. 

 C. H.W.Weber, 2146 Central Ave., Cincinnati, O. 

 Buell Lamberson, ISO Front St., Portland, Oreg. 

 J H. Back & Son, 235 W. 3rd North Street, Salt 



Lake City, Utah. 

 The A. I. Root Co., 1024 Miss St., St. Paul, Minn. 

 The A. I. Root Co., Mechanic Falls, Maine. 

 The A. I. Root Co., 10 Vine St., Philadelphia,Pa. 

 The A. I. Root Co , Svracuse, N. Y., or 

 The a. I. Root Co., Medi.na, Ohio. 



Our extractors are also kept by many 

 other dealers in bee-keepers' supplies. 

 If you want to be sure of getting our 

 extractor, be sure to say "Root's Cowan 

 Reversible Extractor " if you order of 

 any other dealer than those named 

 above. 



The A. I. Root Co., 



MEDINA, OHIO. 



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Never Wintered Better. 



Last year winter kept up till June 6, 

 in fact we had no spring weather at all, 

 but we now have had four weeks of 

 continuous fine weather, and some of 

 our people are beginning to get 

 alarmed forfearwemay havea drouth; 

 but we can stand it several weeks 

 longer, and then we can fall back on 

 irrigation ; but the spring rains are 

 very necessary in some parts of the 

 State. The bees never wintered better 

 than this year, tut the poisonous 

 smelter-smoke has killed them in some 

 parts of Salt Lake County by the 

 wholesale. It is a very serious matter, 

 and to fight it would be like running 

 up against a stone wall, because we 

 would have to fight millionaires. 



E. S. LovssY. 

 Salt Lake Co., Utah, March 29. 



Bees Wintering Well. 



I have 40 colonies of bees in my 

 house-cellar, all doing well. I am a 

 farmer, and if I live until next harvest, 

 and do not forget, I will send Mr. Da- 

 dant some wheat and cheat, or chess, 

 as we call it here, to show that cheat 

 grows from wheat, both on the same 

 root. L. Stahoski. 



Trempealeau Co., Wis., March 20. 



The New Bee-Disease. 



I would like to relate some of my ex- 

 perience and cure for the above 

 tro\tble, for the past IS years. 



Some 12 years ago I was much an- 

 noyed with old beescoming out in mid- 

 summer and crawling and hopping 

 about, shiny and unable to fly ; also 

 some dead brood much like we had last 

 summer. I fed some beta napthol, and 

 for many years we never had a single 

 colony affected. 



I often thought the bees lookt much 

 healthier for 2 years after. However, 

 last year it was 10 times worse than ever. 

 (We had no old shiny bees dying off, 

 remember, and no dead brood on my 

 first round when clipping queens.) But 

 after the first hatch of brood it seemed 

 to appear almost at once in perhaps SO 

 hives, some with only S or 6 dead larvae. 

 Starvitig is no good with me. I tried 

 it twice on one colony and failed. I 

 never put in such a summer in my 20 

 j'ears with bees for a business — culling 

 out brood with a pen-knife and melting 

 combs. There is positively no smell or 

 ropiness. 



This letter is written for Mr. P. W. 

 Stahlman, of New York State, out of 

 sympathy, and I am satisfied it can be 

 cured for one cent per hive or colony. 

 Of course, I will have to fall out with 

 all who believe in no drugs. However, 

 no man living dare stand up and say 

 drugs have no effect. It is the careful, 

 jealous hand they are given with that 

 is half the battle. I fed beta napthol 

 last fall with winter stores so that it 

 would be stored in every cell in the 

 brood-chamber, after all brood was 

 hatcht out, and if it does not lose its 



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