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



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



Entered at the Postoffice, Medina, Ohio, £s second-class matter 



VOL. XLII. 



NOVEMBER 1, 1914 



NO. 21 



EDITOEIAL 



Particular attention is called to the re- 

 port of the Iioney and bee department at the 

 Hartford, Ct., fair, by E. G. Carr, page 

 846. There may be larger exhibits, but we 

 do not know of a State in the Union where 

 the beekeepers have a better opportunity 

 than in Connecticut; and in this connection 

 it should be obsei'\'ed that some one deserves 

 a gi'eat deal of credit in working out these 

 plans and in making possible the offering of 

 prizes to the extent of $500. 



Exhibits like this one at fairs go a long 

 way toward creating that favorable im- 

 pression toward honey that is so necessary 

 for its universal use by every family. After 

 all, it is largely a matter of publicity. Many 

 people do not eat honey, simply because it 

 is not brought before them, and they do 

 not tliink about it. 



Our cover picture for this issue, as ex- 

 plained under Our Homes, p. 872, shows 

 the original windmill Avhich A. I. Root used 

 as his only source of power to turn the 

 wheels of his little beehive shop back in the 

 days when Gleanings was in its infancy. 

 As indicated by the picture, the mill is now 

 owned by a farmer Jiving near Medina an.l is 

 at rest after its long years of useful activity. 



It was a warm day in August when this 

 photo was taken ; and as A. I. Root himself 

 stood before the camera and looked toward 

 the old mill, we observed that his eyes 

 would constantly seek the ground at his feet. 

 It was hard for him to believe that nearly 

 half a century had passed, and no doubt he 

 saw again this wonderful machine of the 

 air, resplendent in its new shining paint, 

 when it was the realization of his fondest 

 dreams — when it liarnessed the wind and 

 worked at his bidding. If he had voiced 

 his thoughts he would probably have said, 

 " Can it be that 40 — yes, almost 50 — years 

 have come and gone?" 



The years have come and gone. The mill 

 once so strong and powerful has been idle 



for many years, while a newer one near by 

 does the work. But A. I. Root is as busy 

 as at any time in his life; and while his 

 work has changed, and he has given up in 

 a measure much of the veal responsibility 

 that he once bore alone, he is always active, 

 as one would find who tried to follow him 

 during any one of his never idle days. For 

 hira there will not come a time when, like 

 this windmill, he will be of no more use to 

 the world. His call to a newer, larger ser- 

 vice in the other world will come as an 

 anticipated interruption to some work here 

 not yet finished. 



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Practically all who have tried chaff 

 division-boards agree that they are invalu- 

 able for early spring breeding and for 

 preparing a colony for winter; but ihe 

 great objection to their use is the difficulty 

 in putting together. They are quite expen- 

 sive if bought already put together, and 

 more expensive still if bought in the fiat 

 and put together afterward, for it takes 

 pretty rapid work to assemble even three of 

 them in an hour by the old plan, which 

 consisted of tacking a strip of canvas 

 around the frame and then stuffing it 

 through slots cut in the bottom-bar. Be- 

 sides the nailing of the wooden part, fifty 

 small tacks had to be driven through the 

 canvas into the frame, which is not a short 

 job for even a rapid workman; and then 

 the stuffing outside the two end-bars and 

 under the bottom-bar through the slots re- 

 cjuired at least ten minutes more. We have 

 recently made up a large lot of these divi- 

 sion-boards for our own use by a little 

 different plan, and we have found that a 

 large amount of time is saved, and that the 

 finished board has several important advan- 

 tages over the old type. 



The drawing on page 866 gives the whole 

 plan in a nutshell. Drive six nails in a 

 plain bottom-bar, as shown in Fig. 1, and 

 tlien nail on the upright as in Fig. 2. The 

 side boards. Fig. 3, are of such a length 



