Published by The A. I. Root Co., Medina, 0. 



A. I. Root, Editor Home Department. J. T. Calvert, Business Mgr. 



H. H. Root, Assistant Editor. E. R. Root, Editor. A. L. Boyden, Advertising Manager. 



Entered at the Postoffice, Medina, Ohio, as second-class matter. 



VOL. XLII. 



JANUARY 1, 1914 



NO. 1 



Erditorial 



Our cover picture for this issue shows the 

 apiary and poultry-house of W. R. Bartlett, 

 Elyria, Ohio, whose article appears on page 

 17. 



We hoped to give at least a brief report 

 of the New York State convention in this 

 issue; but at the last minute we found it 

 would have to be left over till Jan. 15. 



AN EXPLANATION. 



Some of our readers, after reading H. H. 

 Root's article on imbedding wires in foun- 

 dation, page 799, Nov. 15, got the idea that 

 tlie wires in the frames are loose. They are 

 not loose, but drawn taut in the frame in the 

 ordinary way. When imbedding them in 

 the foundation they are drawn out of aline- 

 ment just enough to accomplish the result 

 shown on page 802. 



NO DEMAND FOR HONEY DURING THE HOLIDAY 

 PERIOD. 



As a general thing there is a slack time in 

 the sale of honey during the holidays. The 

 honey-salesman might just as well stay at 

 home as to try to make sales during that 

 tim-e of the year. But he can begin again, 

 perhaps, soon after Jan. 1. It is very nec- 

 essary that he do so, because there is a large 

 amount of honey yet to be sold before the 

 1914 crop comes on. 



EDITOR OF " POULTRY LIFE " A BEEKEEPER. 



The breezy editor of that excellent poul- 

 try journal, Poultry Life, Mr. Miller Pur- 

 vis, is a busy man and a bee-man too. We 

 quote herewith the first part of one of his 

 editorials in the October issue. 



A PERSONALi WORD. 



If any one thinks the editor of this magazine 

 passes his days in elegant ease, wearing a tailor- 

 made suit and a tall collar, it would be best to re- 

 vise this mental picture. The editor of Poultry Life 

 fets up in the morning and works all day about six 

 days out of seven. .lust at this writina; he is finish- 

 ing the task of digging three carloads of potatoes that 

 -^ he and one other raised this year. He also takes care 

 =»< of a rather sizeable flock of fowls, enough bees to 

 35 make it interesting, and an orchard that is going to 

 ""* make him rich enough some day so that he can afford 

 f=^to throw his typewriter into an irrigation ditch, and 



forget that he ever sat up nights spoiling white paper 

 for the purpose of saying things to the public. 



Here's long life and success to this fearless 

 writer who is a poultry-man, fruit-man, and 

 last, but not least, a bee-man as well. 



A. I. ROOT ON THE SUBJECT OF WINTER NESTS. 



In this issue, page 6, our correspondent, 

 Mr. Byer, believes that A. I. Root is not a 

 supporter of the winter nest as advocated 

 by his son in later years. He refers to page 

 863 of our issue for Nov. 1, where A. I. 

 Root is mentioned as favoring combs of 

 sealed stores of 15 lbs. each, jjlaced in the 

 center of the brood-nest. Api^arently this 

 might look as if he were in opposition to the 

 practice advocated later in Gleanings; but 

 if Mr. Byer will turn to the top of the next 

 page, 864, he will see that A. I. R. recom- 

 mended cutting circular holes in the combs 

 near the top-bars for a passageway. This 

 would also provide a winter nest, if Ave take 

 into consideration the fact that A. I. R. has 

 always been an advocate of putting the bees 

 into winter quarters early. After all, if bees 

 are given solid combs of stores early in the 

 fall they will soon make a winter nest of the 

 kind that we recommend in December when 

 cold weather sets in. 



THE IMPORTANCE OF UNIFORMITY IN MAKING 

 MARKET QUOTATIONS. 



Our Colorado correspondent, Mr. Wesley 

 Foster, on page 8 of this issue, calls atten- 

 tion to the lack of uniformity in the market 

 quotations in the bee-journals. For instance, 

 he says, " Some of the reports are from 

 houses selling to retailers, some selling to 

 wholesalers, and some, if not all, probably 

 selling to both." He then goes on to give 

 specific instances of how Cincinnati makes 

 prices on honey going to retailers, and how 

 Kansas City gives jobbing prices. If the 

 producer does not know on what basis these 

 quotations are made he is liable to be misled. 

 We are addressing a circular letter to all 

 those who quote prices, calling attention to 

 this lack of uniformity, and asking if a 

 more uniform scheme can not be adopted. 

 In the mean time, it would be wise for any 



5 



