AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



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AMOS IVES ROOT. 



If all has worked as we had planned 

 it should, this biographical sketch with 

 picture will be a complete surprise to 



A. I. ROOT. 



Bro. A. I. Root. We hope it is, for we 

 cannot now think of any one whom we 

 would rather give a pleasant surprise 

 than to our brother publisher and es- 

 teemed friend. 



If there is one man to whom bee-keep- 

 ers all over the world owe an everlast- 



ing debt of gratitude, for his practical 

 instruction and help in all departments 

 of their pursuit, that man is A. I. Eoot. 

 Dr. Miller has tried to tell some of the 

 good things about him, but were he to 

 tell all he could think of, we could yet 

 say that "the half has not been told." 



One has only to read his unrivalled 

 Gleanings in Bee-Culture, to get an idea 

 of the marvelous man behind it all, and 

 to learn what can be accomp hed by 

 untiring and unselfish devotion to a 

 great and glorious object. 



Although we have met Bro. Root only 

 once or twice, yet we feel that in him, as 

 in his honored son Ernest, we have a 

 true friend and brother in whom we can 

 repose the utmost confidence, and feel 

 that we shall be the better for being per- 

 mitted to count him among those whose 

 friendship and counsels we most highly 

 prize. 



Ever since we took control of the old 

 Amekican Bee Journal, we have had 

 much reason for esteeming Bro. Root 

 for his brotherly interest in our welfare, 

 and for his readiness to speak an en- 

 couraging word in our behalf whenever 

 opportunity presented. We admire him 

 for the good he is doing, for the host of 

 friends he has worthily won, and for his 

 high Christian character, the exemplifi- 

 cation of which is so clearly shown in 

 his daily walk and conversation. That 

 he may live yet many years to continue 

 to further the best interests of the cause 

 which he has done so much to honor 

 and bless, is our sincerest hope and 

 earnest prayer. 



"V^e now present to our readers what 

 Dr. Miller " knows " of Bro. Root and 

 his great and successful business enter- 

 prises : 



One who has never visited Medina, 0., 

 can hardly have any just conception of 

 the immense establishment that is car- 

 ried on there in the interest of bee-keep- 

 ing. Combine a blacksmith-shop, a tin- 

 shop, a paint-shop, a machine, carpenter, 

 and I don't know what else, with a large 

 printing establishment, a store and 

 lunch-room attached — all on a large 

 scale — and you have still to see it, and 



