1911 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



159 



Review since the last edition of " Advanced 

 Bee Culture " had been published, selecting 

 such of the editorial writings as would be 

 suitable to incorporate in the new work, and 

 crossing out old matter that might be in 

 conflict with it. After a few evenings' work 

 (for I had no other time to devote to it) I 

 finally got the matter all together and turn- 

 ed it over into the hands of the linotypers — 

 not until, however, I had submitted to Mr. 

 Hutchinson all the changes that I proposed 

 making and the manner of incorporating 

 the same into the work, I received a postal 

 from the sick man, reading something like 

 this: "I marvel at the skill of your selec- 

 tion, and also your manner of joining new 

 matter on to old; in fact, you have made just 

 about such changes as I would have made 

 had I the strength and the health to do it." 



During the years since the first edition of 

 "Advanced Bee Culture" was published, 

 Mr. Hutchinson has had a large experience 

 in the field, especially in out-apiary work. 

 He and his brother Elmer have tested many 

 new devices, as well as having discovered 

 some new kinks in the trade. The result of 

 all these experiences was written up from 

 time to time in the pages of The Bee-keep- 

 ers' Review, and the task that devolved up- 

 on me was to select this matter from the 

 pages of The Bee-keepers' Review, and sign- 

 ed articles of his that appeared in the col- 

 umns of Gleanings. All these were woven 

 into the main body of the work. 



Some minor changes are made all through 

 the work; but we will speak of only the prin- 

 cipal changes. For example, in the chapter 

 entitled "Producing Good Extracted Hon- 

 ey " I have incorporated editorials from The 

 Bee-keepers' Review, and a portion of a 

 series of articles by Mr. Hutchinson on the 

 subject of " Producing Extracted Honey," 

 that appeared some time ago in these pages. 

 This new matter has been added to the old 

 in such a way that the whole reads like one 

 continuous story. The new matter deals 

 with the question of extracting the honey, 

 of tiering up and extracting after the har- 

 vest is over, securing workers for the har- 

 vest, warming up the honey, uncapping- 

 barrels and tanks, with quite an extended 

 description of E. D. Townsend's uncapping- 

 box. The steam-heated uncapping-knives 

 and power-driven extractors received their 

 fair share of attention, for, in fact, the 

 Hutchinson brothers tested them quite thor- 

 oughly during the last three or four years 

 in their northern apiaries. In fact, this 

 whole chapter fairly bristles with the ex- 

 perience of actual _^e^d work. 



Then we find, a little further on, an en- 

 tirely new chapter on the subject of "Devel- 

 oping a Mail-order Trade for Honey." This 

 is nothing more nor less than a reproduc- 

 tion of an article or articles that appeared 

 in Gleanings over a year ago. It takes up 

 the all-important question of how to sell ex- 

 tracted honey, how to advertise, how to se- 

 cure two or three cents above the market 

 for honey in original packages. 



On page 145, under the head of "Foul 



Brood" appears a discussion of the subject 

 of European foul brood and its treatment, 

 especially how to cure without destroying 

 either the brood or the combs. On pages 

 154 and 155 is quite a little new matter un- 

 der "Apiarian Exhibits at Fairs." 



The chapter on "The Rendering of Bees- 

 wax " is quite extensively revised. A recent 

 editorial by Mr. Hutchinson describes the 

 W. J. Manley method of rendering wax. 

 As this method is clear up to date in every 

 particular, nearly all the old matter was 

 stricken out, and the new substituted. 



Some new matter was added to the chap- 

 ter of " Outdoor Wintering of Bees," and on 

 page 164 we find another new chapter en- 

 titled "Automatic Transferring." 



In the chapter on " The Influence of Tem- 

 perature in Wintering Bees" we find some 

 quite extensive revisions, taking up the spe- 

 cial question of how to build bee-cellars at 

 moderate cost. Here again we find the au- 

 thor drawing quite extensively from his ex- 

 perience in building bee-cellars in Northern 

 Michigan. This one chapter, to the one 

 contemplating a bee-cellar, is worth the 

 price of the book many times over. 



The chapters "Fertilization of Queens in 

 Confinement," "Commercial Queen-rear- 

 ing," and "Ventilation of Bee-cellars" are 

 omitted from the new edition, either because 

 they were out of date or because they con- 

 flicted with some of the author's recent ut- 

 terances in The Bee-keepers' Review. 



Taking it all in all, the new edition is en- 

 tirely the work of Mr. W. Z. Hutchinson. 

 While I have acted in the capacity of revis- 

 er I have added no word of my own except 

 here and there to put in a connecting link 

 in order that the old matter might join on 

 smoothly to new. Taking it all in all, there 

 have been added between thirty and forty 

 pages of entirely new matter, and something 

 like an equal number have been stricken 

 out, so that the new edition will be about 

 the same size as the old one; but instead of 

 being sold at a price of $1.20 it will be sold 

 for an even dollar, postpaid. 



As a writer on bees Mr. Hutchinson has 

 few equals. For clearness of style and ac- 

 curacy of judgment he is second to none. 

 His enthusiasm shines forth on every page. 

 His selection of the new and the useful from 

 an extended discussion is intuitive. The 

 last edition of "Advanced Bee Culture," as 

 well as the new edition before, is made up 

 of the best ideas of our best experts, proper- 

 ly classified and condensed by a master of 

 the art of boiling down discussions. 



I do not hesitate to say that this is one of 

 the most valuable books on bees that was 

 ever put out; and while its title would indi- 

 cate that it is designed only for the advanc- 

 ed bee-keeper, yet I am sure that a large 

 number of beginners in the business will 

 find it exceedingly helpful and interesting, 

 especially if they will take it in connection 

 with some other work like the ABC and 

 X Y Z of Bee Culture, or any text-book de- 

 signed especially for the beginner class. 



E. R. Root. 



