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THE AMERICAN APICULTURIST. 



Spacing frames in the brood-chamber. 



A good deal is now being said iu 

 Oleaning !m\)oni spacing frames. This 

 is an old subject and was discussed 

 in the American Bee Journal (then 

 the only bee-paper published) nearly 

 twenty-five years ago. The beekeep- 

 ers of the present day seem to know 

 but little about it, and a good many 

 beekeepers seem to think that the only 

 bee-paper in the land is Gleaidnga. 

 "Where ignorance is bliss, etc." All 

 right, friends ; if yon think that Bro. 

 Root publishes all there is about bees 

 and beekeeping, just stick to his 

 teachings. No one man knows it all 

 — that is, all about bees. Now post 

 yourselves up about spacing frames. 

 Fifteen years hence there will be a new 

 set of beekeepers in the field, and they, 

 too, will want to know all about spac- 

 ing frames. Ernest Root then can 

 refer them to the back numbers of 

 Gleanings. 



If 3'ou really desire to introduce a 

 nuisance into your apiaries, just use 

 any of the devices for spacing frames 

 now being recommended by those peo- 

 ple, who, it seems to me, have had no 

 experience iu such things. These same 

 things, now advised and described, 

 were used thirty years ago, and nearly 

 all who used them cursed the day they 

 applied them to their hives. 



I need not tell you why they are a 

 nuisance. If any reader desires to 

 test the matter for himself, all I have 

 to say is, go ahead and use them. 



Queen-rearing. 

 In a private letter to the editor of 

 the American Bee Journal^ Rev. L. 

 Johnson says : 



I have jnst finished reading Mr. G. M. 

 Doolittle's book on "Scientific Queen-Eear- 

 ing," and must truly say it far exceeds 

 anytliiiig on the subject I have ever read. 

 His discoveries are certainly remarkalile, 

 and cannot fail to be of great value to the 

 beekeepers of America. God bless him 

 for Avhat he has done for us iu the little 

 in this little book. I thought Mr. Alley 

 had exhausted the subject in his "Bee- 

 Keepers' Haudy-Book," but Mr. Doolittle 



has opened to us a new field of which I 

 never dreamed. I almost held my breath 

 iu amazement as I read Chapter XIII. 



If our friend Johnson will take the 

 trouble to read Dr. G. L. Tinker's lit- 

 tle book, as well as the Dr.'s writings 

 that have appeared in "the Apt, and 

 our ^'■Thirty Years Among the Bees," 

 he will find that Mr. Doolittle's meth- 

 od for rearing queens is very much 

 behind the times. There are newer, 

 better and more practical ways for 

 rearing queens than Mr. D. advises or 

 practices. 



Gleanings in bee-culture. 



Have you seen a late copy of the 

 above publication? Brother Root has 

 put his favorite publication in a new 

 dress and the improvement over the old 

 style of small type is very marked. I 

 believe the paper has also been en- 

 larged. Brother Root publishes so 

 much matter in Gleanings that does 

 not relate to bee culture that he found 

 it necessary to add several pages to his 

 paper. 



We lately received a splendid book 

 from Bro. Root on ''Strawberry Cul- 

 ture." We can recommend this work 

 to all who raise little or much of this 

 most delicious and wholesome fruit. 

 Price of book, by mail, is 50 cents. 

 If you would like a copy we will have 

 it mailed to your address and the Api 

 one year for $1.10. 



We have a small patch of seedling 

 strawljerries iu our garden. My son 

 planted a few seed some four years 

 ago from the Sharpless strawberry. 

 From about nine plants two only were 

 selected. These two plants produce 

 very large, nicely-shaped berries. We 

 had several pickings from these vines 

 some two weeks after all others had 

 failed. As the berries ripen so much 

 later than other varieties it is a very 

 desirable plant. By and by we may 

 have a few of these plants for sale. 



Bro. Thos. Q. Newman's visit to A. I. Hoot- 



The editor of the American Bee 

 Journal has been on a visit to the ed- 

 itor of Gleanings. We would be glad 



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