Sept. 27, 1900. 



AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



619 



Root's Column 



THE 



ABC Bee-Culture 



The only Encyclopicdia on Bees 

 lOooEdJtiun. 500 Page^- 



The last edition, 5,(H'it copies, i'^sued iu Octo- 

 ber, 18'>9. was exhausted ill the short space of 

 one year. Even before the ediiioti was out of 

 the press, 1,500 copies had been sold: and before 

 30 days had past l,l>0<> more copies were taken. 

 We immediately set to work to print a new edi- 

 tion. While the edition of 1S<)'» was more thoroly 

 revised thau any previous one, that for I'HXi has 

 received even larger additions of new matter, 

 so that the book from be?iuninp to end is al- 

 most entirely new. It now contains 5in) double- 

 column pag'es. It has been most carefully gone 

 over by Dr. C. C. Miller, who has prepared a 

 new set of comments, and by Prof. A. J. Cook, 

 of Pomona College, Calif- As before, old sub- 

 jects have been rewritten. Descriptions of ob- 

 solete methods have in all cases been stricken 

 out, and the very latest put in their place. 



The 1900 Edition marks the 75th 

 Thousand. 



It is in many respects superior to any previ- 

 ous one in regard to typographical appearance, 

 quantity of new subject-matter, and general re- 

 vision of old subjects, for we are now building 

 on the knowledge and experience of these latter 

 days, when such wonderful strides are being 

 made. 



For the Veteran as well as for the 

 Beginner. 



While the book is, in the true sense, an A M C 

 of bee-culture, in that it is adapted to the re- 

 quirements of beginners, it is also a compre- 

 hensive X Y Z of the subject; for no veteran, 

 no matter how extensive his experience, can af- 

 ford to be without a work of this kind, contain- 

 ing as it does a carefully prepared dissertation 

 on every late method or practice known to the 

 business. All the bee-literature of past ages, 

 all the current literature of this and every other 

 country, has been carefully scanned; and what- 

 ever there is that is new and valuable has been 

 incorporated in this work. 



High/Class Engravings. 



The most expensive half-tone engravings, 

 taken direct iu the majority of cases from fine, 

 clear photos, adorn its pages. Besides 5'' full- 

 page illustrations there are something like 500 

 smaller ones, fully setting forth the exact modus 

 OTERANDi of every methoci. 



We are confident that this work will save any 

 one who keeps even a few bees, 10 times its cost 

 in a single year. 



While the book has been enlarged, and hun- 

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HEDINA, Ohio. 





Bees Did Fairly Well. 



Bees have done fairly well in this 

 section, which is a poor locality, and I 

 am somewhat anxi<ms about their get- 

 ting winter stores. J. H, Clutk. 



Essex Co., N. J., Sept. 17. 



A Beginner's Experience. 



This is my second season in bee- 

 keeping. Last season I was so lucky 

 as to have a swarm of Italian bees 

 settle in my yard, which I hived in a 

 shoe-box, having nothing better on 

 hand. Thev filled the box, which I 

 shall call No. 1. This year, about the 

 last of April, it sent out a very fine, 

 large swarm, which I saved and will 

 call No. 2. About 10 days later No, 1 

 cast another swarm about the same 

 size— No. 3, which went off in my ab- 

 sence. About two months from that 

 time No. 2 cast a swarm— No. 4, and 

 on Sept. 10 No. 4 swarmed— No. 5. 

 Now what ought I to have done with 

 No. SI I had no comb to put them on, 

 and did not know enough to find the 

 queen so as to return it to No. 4. Shall 

 I try to feed them thru ? They seem 

 to be working nicely. No. 1 is filling 

 the super and has it nearly full. No. 2 

 is about ready to work in the super. 

 Fked R. H.\wkins. 



Edgar Co., 111., Sept. 15. 



[We should unite No. 5 with the 

 weakest of the other four, first killing 

 the poorer queen of the two. Then next 

 spring, if the combination winters 

 well, and is strong, divide it about the 

 middle of May.— Editor.] 



Fall Crop a Failure. 



The white clover here did not j'ield 

 an ounce of honey, and owing to ex- 

 cessive drouth in this immediate vicin- 

 ity, our fall crop is a failure. 



E. T. Fi,.\nagan. 



St. Clair Co., 111.. Sept. 12. 



My First Year's Experience. 



Since a boy I always have had a 

 great fancy for bees, tho not until last 

 December did I gratify this fancy, 

 when I bought four colonies, and in 

 February I purchast 11 ir.ore colonies. 

 Out of 15 colonies two, which proved 



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