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AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



address plainly, and also the names and 

 addresses of your bee-keeper friends. 

 Yours truly, Jas. A. Stone, Sec. 



The printed questions referred to in 

 the foregoing letter, are these : 



1. In what county do you reside ? 



2. How many years have you kept 

 bees ? 



3. How many colonies, on an average, 

 have you kept each year ? 



4. What kind of hive do you use '? 



5. Do you prefer large or small brood- 

 chambers ? 



6. Do you work your bees for comb or 

 extracted honey ? 



7. If for both, please give the propor- 

 tion of each ? 



8. In working for comb honey do you 

 use one or two pound sections ? 



9. Do you use either wood or metal 

 separators, and if so which do you pre- 

 fer ? 



10. What are your chief resources for 

 honey ? 



11. Do bees in your locality work to 

 any extent on red clover ? 



12. Do you know of any foul brood in 

 your locality? 



13. Have you ever suffered any loss 

 from the poisonous spraying of fruit 

 trees ? 



14. If so, what time was the spraying 

 done ? 



15. What do you think about bees 

 damaging fruit? 



16. What is your opinion of bees in 

 relation to flowers ? 



17. What is your loss in wintering, 

 and how done? 



18. Have you succeeded well in selling 

 extracted honey when granulated ? 



19. Do you know of any spot in Illi- 

 nois where bees cannot make more than 

 a living ? 



20. What has been your average 

 yield per colony for ten years ? 



21. Do you consider Italian bees as 

 proof against moths ? 



22. Have you used bee-escapes? What 

 kind, and with what success ? 



23. Miscellaneous remarks. (Under 

 this head you are kindly requested to 

 add whatever will be for the information 

 of bee-keepers of Illinois, as to inven- 

 tions or otherwise ) 



This is a matter that should interest 

 every bee-keeper in this State. Now, 

 let all who read the Bee Jouknal in 

 Illinois, answer the above questions by 

 number, and <it once, so that a very com- 

 plete Report may be issued. 



ERNEST R. ROOT. 



It is not often that a periodical is so 

 favored as is the Bee JouRNAii, with the 

 opportunity to present to its readers, in 

 a biographical sketch and by portrait, 

 one who has come into well-earned 

 prominence with such rapidity and 

 permanency as Mr. Ernest R. Root. 

 Though we have not met him face to 

 face, we feel that we have in him a 

 sympathetic brother and friend, if we 

 may judge from the exceedingly pleasant 

 and profitable correspondence that has 

 passed between us. 



Dr. Miller, who has known Mr. Root 

 since his twelfth year, tells only as the 

 Doctor can, how he has grown up into 

 his pi'esent noble manhood and enviable 

 position of usefulness as editor of 

 "Lovely Oleanings." Let us all hope 

 that Mr. Root may long be spared to 

 bless the field of apiarian literature with 

 his graceful pen, and more graceful and 

 earnest efforts in behalf of the whole 

 bee-keeping world. 



Permit us now to invite you to a care- 

 ful reading of the following interesting 

 life-story of our friend and brother 

 editor : 



Somewhere about twenty years ago, I 

 visited Medina, Ohio, for the first time, 

 going by stage, as there was then no 

 railroad. Among the things I there saw 

 was a boy perhaps in his twelfth year (he 

 was born June 23, 1862). His name 

 was Ernest R. Root, and in spite of the 

 three decades that have passed over his 

 head, he is still called "Ernest," both at 

 homo and abroad, much oftener than 

 "Mr. Root." I don't know just why 

 this is ; certainly not for want of re- 

 spect. Perhaps because his pleasantly 

 cordial manner, both in writing and 



