Mar. 16, 1899. 



AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL, 



171 



Root's Column 



Ttlisisa a;.-va; 



Qll66r World. We cannot be made 

 to see all thing's alike. Some like one 

 thing-, and some another. There is a 

 class, no doubt, who hesitate to try 

 Plain Sections because of the extra ex- 

 pense of the fixtures. There is another 

 class who would not have them any- 

 how. Well, we s.re prepared to suit 

 everybody. We have just brought out 

 a slat separator to take the place of the 

 ordinary tin or solid-wood separator. 



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They are simph' four slats bound to- 

 gether at the ends by folded tins. They 

 can be used in any super taking the 

 old-style sections ; and their cost is 

 hardly any more than wood separators. 

 W^e can supply them for 80 cents per 

 100, either for T supers or for section- 

 holders. For odd-sized supers, of course 

 we shall have to make additional 

 charge. They can be supplied with 

 our regular S super — that is, the supers 

 with old-style sections and section- 

 holders, or with our regular T supers. 



Mr. J. E. Crane produced several 

 thousand pounds of honey with sepa- 

 rators of this kind, and he is of the 

 opinion that the freer communication 

 afforded gave him fuller and better 

 boxes ; but the boxes were hardly as 

 complete and nice as those from fences. 



Keep Your Eye on 

 this Column, JVJ%uJr<C 



as we may be able to save you dollars. 



THefl.I.RootGoiiiDany 



MEDINA, OHIO. 



Report for 1898. 



My report (or ISflS is 42 colonies, spring 

 count, increast to 8.5, and took 3,000 pounds 

 of extracted and .500 pounds of comb honey, 

 principally from cotton-bloom. Honey 

 from this source granulates very readily on 

 the first approach of cool weather. Our 

 winter is now about over, and I have lost 

 only 8 or 4 colonies. 



Of course no man or woman should at- 

 tempt to keep bees without a good journal, 

 and also a text-book, and read and re-read 

 the good items. Don't get them and lay 

 them away. J. A. RossoN. 



Ellis Co., Tex., Feb. 10. 



Aptifieial Heat In Wintering-. 



I put TO colonies into the cellar last fall, 

 and they are all alive at the present time, 

 but it has kept me guessing for the last 

 month, for it has been from zero to 40 de- 

 grees below, and I had to keep a fire in my 

 cellar most of the time to keep the bees in 

 good shape. Don't tell me that artificial 

 heat is bad for bees in this part of the 

 State, for I have used it for three years, 

 and have not lost a colony. 



It was a poor season for bees last year, 

 and I got only half a crop. From .50 colo- 

 nies, spring count, I took 4. '200 pounds of 

 extracted honey, mostly white. I have 

 kept bees 10 years, and do not know much 

 about the business, but am learning every 

 year. I give the credit to the American 

 Bee Journal. " Bees and Honey." " A B C 

 of Bee-Culture." and Doolittle's "Scientific 

 Queen-Rearing," for every man ought to 

 rear his own queens. A. E. Bradfoki). 



St. Croix Co.. Wis., Feb. 'iO. 



Good Season in 1898. 



The season of 1S9S was very good here, 

 but the honey was all dark. I got about 

 400 pounds, but all was dark except about 

 50 pounds. I have 17 colonies, all doing 

 well. I take great interest in bee-keeping, 

 and like the Bee Journal very much. 



S. M. Hodges. 



Vermillion Co., 111., Jan. '27. 



A Little Bee-Experienee. 



The American Bee Journal has been a 

 great help to me during the past year. I 

 started by catching and hiving a swarm in 

 the spring of 1S07. They gave no increase 

 or surplus that year. Last year I got no 

 surplus from them, but they gave a swarm 

 May 1. which I also hived in a bux-hive. 

 This new colony also gave a swarm Aug. 1, 

 and 20 pounds of surplus comb honey. I 

 also got one after-swarm from No. 1, which 

 has built up; and I bought a swarm on a 

 bush from another man June 21: this last 

 gave me 40 pounds of nice section honey. 

 The last three colonies are in dovetailed 

 hives, and I want to transfer the two from 

 box-hives in the spring. E. L. Hayes. 



Jeflferson Co., III., Feb. 0. 



Glorious Rain in Northern Calif. 



We had a glorious rain last night. The 

 weather is yet cloudy, and I believe we 

 shall have occasional showers. The rain 

 we had last night was very opportune; it 

 will save the crops in the northern portion 

 of the State, and somewhat in the southern 

 central portion, where it has fallen. I do 

 not think any rain fell in the southern por- 

 tion of the State, at least this morning's 

 papers do not mention such fact. 



With rains every few weeks, and no dry- 

 ing %vinds, we shall have a fair crop of fruit, 

 grain and honey all through northern Cali- 

 fornia. I wish I could say as much for the 

 lower part of the State. Those who have 





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