THE AMERICAN APICULTURIST. 



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BOOK NOTICES AND 

 REVIEWS. 



Mr. L. C. Root has kindly sent 

 us a, cop3^ of the lute revision of 

 '' Qninby's New Beekeeping" and 

 we are pleased to notice a number 

 of important clianges which greatly 

 improve the work. 



For a number of years we have 

 been conversant witli most of tlie 

 modern works on apiculture and feel 

 justified in stating that, in our opin- 

 ion, " Quinby's New Beekeeping" 

 stands at the head of all works on 

 practical apiculture published in 

 the English language, as a safe and 

 reliable guide both to the novice 

 and expert. 



This work is wholly original and 

 contains the results of fifty-five 

 years of practical experience with 

 keeping bees for profit. 



Its first author, the lamented 

 Quinby, was one of the noblest and 

 best men who ever graced our pro- 

 fession and one who never adopted 

 or gave to the world a single 

 method or invention until he had 

 thoroughly tested it and proved 

 that it was worthy of adoption ; 

 who earnestly and bitterly opposed 

 every attempt made to defraud the 

 beekeepers or injure their interests, 

 who not onl}^ proved by practical 

 demonstration that beekeeping with 

 the box hive and in a good localit}^ 

 was remunerative, but also was one 

 of the first to test thoroughly and 

 adopt the movable frame given us 

 by our Langstroth, proving to the 

 world by those tests that the mov- 

 able frame hive opened up great 

 possibilities for the future of api- 

 culture ; who was the founder and 

 for many years the President of the 

 North Eastern Beekeepers' Asso- 

 ciation which has a world-wide rep- 

 utation for sound, reliable judgment 

 upon all questions pertaining to 

 apiculture ; and, lastly, one who just- 

 ly earned the proud title of the father 

 of practical apiculture in America. 



After father Quinby published 

 his first work, " Mysteries of Bee- 

 keeping Explained" he fully in- 

 tended to revise it thoroughly, but 

 although he lived many years after 

 that time and saw apiculture, his 

 chosen pursuit, becoming one of the 

 national industries, yet he was 

 called to his rest by a loving Heav- 

 enly Father and the labor of com- 

 piling the teachings that he gave 

 to the world devolved upon Mr. L. 

 C. Root of Mohawk, N. Y., one 

 whose reputation both as a bee- 

 keeper and as a man is too well 

 known and established to need men- 

 tion here. 



Mr. Root almost from his early 

 boyhood was the pupil and com- 

 panion of father Quinby and was 

 better fitted for the labor of revis- 

 ing Mr. Quinby's former work than 

 any other, and here let us state that 

 Mr. L. C. Root has performed the 

 duty of love left him by his father 

 Moses Quinby nobly and well, en- 

 deavoiing in an unselfish and self- 

 sacrificing manner to lose his own 

 identity and give to the world as 

 nearly as possible the same work 

 that father Quinby would have 

 given them had he lived. 



Mr. Root will pardon this refer- 

 ence to his labor of love which we 

 make wholly unbeknown to him, as 

 a slight appreciation of the good 

 that he has conferred upon apicul- 

 ture in so doing. 



Further, we wish to state that 

 we have reviewed this work in this 

 way, because for a number of years 

 the impression has been forced 

 upon the beekeepers that father 

 Quinby was merely a successful 

 box-hive beekeeper, living back in 

 the dark ages prior to the introduc- 

 tion of the frame hive which 

 brought to us the light of modern 

 apiculture ; which impression is ut- 

 terly false and without foundation 

 and when, at the late convention 

 of the North Eastern Beekeepers' 

 Association, an extract from an 



