1894 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



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lift :.*0-lb. stones. Wo have lifting enough to do 

 in the handling of supers and hives full of bees, 

 without handling heavy boulders. 



rilK A. 1. KOOT COMPANY. 



The friends will notice by our price list and 

 stationery that the above title to our business 

 takes the place of simply "A. I. Root." Per- 

 haps I may say that no new method of manage- 

 ment will be introduced, and no new members 

 are to have any thing to do with the business. 

 It will be conducted as it has been heretofore, 

 by A. I. Root and his family, including the son- 

 in-law. Mr. .1. T. Calvert, who has been for 

 many years business manager. A. I. Root, be- 

 sides being president, will, for the present, be 

 by far the largest stockholder ; Ernest R. Root, 

 vice-president ; J. T. Calvert, secretary and 

 treasurer. The principal reason for making 

 this change is, that the business may go right 

 on uninterruptedly in case of death or accident 

 to the founder, A. I. Root. We as a family do 

 not desire the intervention of law or lawyers to 

 settle up our business in case of death to one or 

 more of us. The present magnitude of our 

 business renders It impossible for A. I. Root 

 himself to even read all the correspondence; 

 but where any letter seems to be directed to 

 him personally, or where there is a request 

 that it be handed to him at once, it will always 

 go into his special tray. I wish that I could 

 add that it would always receive a prompt and 

 fitting answer ; but, dear friends, that is be- 

 yond my power. Almost hourly I am called on 

 to decide which matter that lies before me is 

 of the greatest importance. A. I. R. 



A MODERN UOUSE-APIARY; A SUCCESS IN THE 

 HANDS OF F. A. SALISBURY. 



We have just had a very pleasant visit from 

 F. A. Salisbury, of Syracuse. N. Y., the one who 

 handles our El^tern Branch. He is one of the 

 bright and enterprising bee-keepers of York 

 State. Among other things, he is using a 

 house-apiary after the plan of the one used by 

 H. P. Langdon. He is well pleased with its 

 working, and thinks he can handle a greater 

 number of colonies with less labor than by the 

 outdoor plan. The modern bee-escape makes 

 many of the manipulations in tlie house, that 

 were formerly impracticable, now perfectly 

 feasible. He took off all his comb honey with 

 the escapes. The hives are all in easy reach of 

 his tools, and the windows are arranged for the 

 easy escape of the bees in case they should get 

 out in the room. In feeding up for winter he 

 simply pours into his extractor sugar and water 

 of equal proportions, sets the thing running for 

 a few minutes, and, as he says, draws off clear 

 syrup. How a percolator feeder can give a better 

 article he can not imagine. He is certain that 

 his syrup makes a good winter food, because 

 the bees have been wintered on it successfully 

 .three or four winters. He could not understand 



why we should fail to get a syrup by the same 

 plan. I now think the trouble was because we 

 did not give the plan a thorough enough trial. 



Well, this fall the syr\ip was made in the 

 house-apiary, within a few feet of the colonies 

 to be fed, and yet out of reach of robbers. It 

 was then drawn off' into feeders and put on to 

 the hives, and the whole job almost within 

 arm's reach. All the feeding was done in a 

 surprisingly short lime, as, indeed, any opera- 

 tion is in his modern house-apiary. He has 

 made some changes on the Langdon plan, and 

 has promised to send us a photograph, giving 

 an inside and an outside view. As Mr. Salis- 

 bury secured a big crop of honey, and some of 

 his neighbors got little or none, I am sure we 

 shall all be interested to know more about that 

 house-apiary. 



GOOD NEWS FOR TEMPERANCE AVORKERS. 



Our readers will remember that, in our issue 

 for Oct. 1, p. 773, 1 mentioned the gin-palaces so 

 thickly grouped about the Soldiers' Home at 

 Dayton, O. Well, I am very glad indeed to 

 give place to the following, which 1 clipped 

 from the Ohio Farmer: 



The Oliio supreme court decided last week that all 

 saloons within two miles of the Dayton Soldiers' 

 Home must be removed, as the State law is consti- 

 tutional. 



THE NEXT NATIONAL CONVENTION AT TORONTO. 



I see you were present at the late convention 

 held at St. Joseph, which appears to have been 

 eminently successful in spirit if not in the num- 

 bers present. I am glad Toronto has been se- 

 lected as the next place of meeting. At no oth- 

 er place in Canada can a meeting of this kind 

 be made so successful. Its accommodations 

 and attractions surpass those of any other town 

 or city in Ontario, especially to strangers. It is 

 within three hours' sail of Niagara, which is 

 historically interesting to both Canadians and 

 Americans as being the battle-ground of one of 

 the severest conflicts of the war of 1813. The 

 town of Niagara is but a few minutes' run to 

 the Falls, over the electric railway, the power 

 for running which is generated by the great 

 cataract itself. If the convention be held dur- 

 ing the Industrial Fair, very cheap rates will be 

 had, as one of the days on which it is held is 

 known as "American Day," when extremely 

 low rates are made by arrangements of the 

 fair's managers, over the principal railroads of 

 the United States. The fair itself is well worth 

 a visit, being the best annual show on this con- 

 tinent — perhaps the best in the world. As an 

 evidence of the truth of what I say, I send you 

 a copy of its Prize List. It is that of IS'.il, as I 

 have none of a later date at hand, and the last 

 is the best. On page .")0 you will see the liberal 

 prizes its management offer for honey alone. 



R. McKnight. 



Owen Sound, Ont., Nov. 3, 1894. 



