FEBRUARY 15, 1916 



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30,511 colonies inspected. There were 2639 

 colonies treated, and 1009 were destroyed. 



Mr. Graham estimates that 1,780,000 

 pounds of honey was produced in the state 

 during the year, valued at about $175,000. 

 Probably two-thirds of the^ honey was ship- 

 ped out of the state. 



We have taken these figures from a brief 

 review of the report in The Idaho States- 

 man for January 26. 



Bran Cookies 



We wish to call especial attention to one 

 of the honey recipes in Farmers' Bulletin 

 JSTo. 653, " Honey and Its Uses in the 

 Home," of which mention has already been 

 made in these columns. The recipe entitled 

 " honey bran cookies " No. 2 we have found 

 to be exceptionally fine. Not only are these 

 cookies of delicious flavor, but containing, 

 as they do, the ingi-edients of bran and 

 honey, they are very fine for building up 

 bone and tissue, and also have a mildly lax- 

 ative effect. We have found that the addi- 

 tion of one or two eggs to the recipe im- 

 proves the cookies somewhat. Here it is : 



Three cups bran, ^^ cup sugar, % to % teaspoon- 

 ful soda, % teaspoonful cinnamon % teaspoonful 

 finger, i^ cup honey, % cup milk, 14 cup butter, 

 •3 eggs if desired. If the bran is coarse add a little 

 rtour. Mix the ingredients thoroly, and drop from 

 spoon on to a buttered pan and bake about 15 min- 

 utes. 



L. C. Root, Son-in-law of Moses Quin- 

 by, still Young at 75 



Mr. Lyma^j C. Root celebrated his 75th 

 anniversary at his home recently. Besides 

 I he numerous friends who came to call on 

 him, many letters of congi'atulation came 

 from far and wide. 



Mr. Root will be better known to the 

 readers of Gleanings when we say that he 

 is a son-in-law of the late Moses Quinby, 

 the author of " Mysteries of Beekeeping 

 Explained," and also of the only reliable 

 cure for American foul brood. After Mr. 

 Quinby's death Mr. Root revised the work. 

 This was in 1884. So complete and thoro 

 was the revision that the publishers said 

 that he " might in justice have claimed to 

 be its author; but with rare modesty, and 

 in a spirit of reverence to one who had 

 devoted his life to the advancement and 

 popularizing of bee culture, he preferred to 

 retain the title of Quinby's ' New Beekeep- 

 ing.' " 



Our readers will remember that Mr. Root, 

 in our Quinby number of last year, had an 

 article on page 267, April 1st issue, telling 

 something about Quinby's old home and 



relating some reminiscences of his father- 

 in-law who in the olden days, without mov- 

 able-frame hives, made money from his bees, 

 and who one year produced so much box 

 honey that he broke down the honey market 

 of New York. But this was away back in 

 the early '50's. 



The career of Mr. Root, the son-in-law, 

 has been no less remarkable. In the early 

 days he was a well-known contributor to 

 The American Agriculturist and The Coun- 

 try Gentleman. While he has not done very 

 much with bees since his removal from New 

 York to Connecticut, he has been an active 

 factor in civic life in the state of his adop- 

 tion. He has held varied positions of hon- 

 or and trust, having been recently elected 

 member of the State Board of Trade of 

 Connecticut, and for a number of years he 

 was treasurer of the Stamford Board of 

 Trade and a delegate to the State Board. 

 He is treasurer of the Civic Federation, and 

 an active member of the Universalist Church 

 and of its men's forum. In politics he is 

 a Prohibitionist; but, nevertheless, while 

 milk inspector he served under a Democrat- 

 ic mayor and a Republican council. 



Those who had the pleasure of hearing 

 the address he delivered at the Jenkintown 

 field meet, where there weie nearly a thou- 

 sand beekeepers present, will remember Mr. 

 Root not only as a man of ability but one 

 of exceedingly pleasant face that bespeaks 

 the character of the man. Like our ]\Ii'. A. I. 

 Root, to whom he is not related, he carries 

 us back to the olden days when beekeeping 

 in America, and practically in the whole 

 world, developed from the old box hive to 

 the modern movable combs, section honey- 

 boxes, comb foundation, and the extractor. 

 Both the Roots are within one year of being 

 the same age, and in all these years they 

 have been good friends. 



The Colorado Spraying Situation, again 



One of the prominent apple-gTowing 

 districts is western Colorado. As would 

 naturally be expected, beekeeping interests 

 are also well represented there. Altho hon- 

 ey-producers ought to be on the best of 

 terms with the fruit-growers, their interests 

 being so closely intertwined, unfortunately 

 peace does not always prevail. Spraying 

 seems to be the cause of the disturbance. 



Of course, there is always present, more 

 or less, a dispute on the pros and cons of 

 spraying while the blossoms are on the 

 trees. This were enough to call out a quar- 

 rel had it not been that a new situation 

 developed along with an advance in meth- 

 ods of orchard practice. At one time clean 



