July 13, 1899. 



AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL, 



443 



Root's Column 



GLEANINGS 

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 as an extra inducement we make the 

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For 25 cents we will send Gleanings 

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 1900. If you send in your order promptly 

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For SI. 00 we will send an untested 

 Italian Queen worth 75 cts. and Glean- 

 ings IN Bee-Cui.ture one year. 



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For $1.00 we will send Gleanings in 

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 uary, 1901. The sooner you take ad- 

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For 50 cents we will send Gleanings 

 IN Bee-Culture 6 months beginning 

 July 1 and Vol. I of Gleanings. This 

 is for the year 1873. There are many 

 interesting things. There are 12 arti- 

 cles on "Starting an Apiary," and 

 while some of these may not be practi- 

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ADDRESS 



THE A, L ROOT CO, 



MEDINA, OHIO. 



depends upon tbe proportion of bees to the 

 space, and general tbrift. 



W. G. Larrabee— I don't know. 



R. C. Aikin — Yes, on an average. 



C. H. Dibtiern— Perhaps, but I see no good 

 reason for it. 



Mrs. L. Harrison — I never experimented 

 along that line. 



Dr. C. C. Miller— Generally, yes. Prop- 

 erly managed, no. 



J. A Green— I think there will be a little 

 tendency that way. 



J. A. Stone— No more in proportion to 

 the size of the hive. 



E. France — I guess there would, but I 

 would use the big hive. 



Dr. J. P. H. Brown — Yes. in the majority 

 of cases there will be more. 



Emerson T. Abbott— Yes; this is a self- 

 evident fact, it seems to me. 



Rev. M. Mahin— In the brood-chamber, 

 yes; and I judge in the super, also. 



Mrs. J. M. Null— Yes, as a rule; but with 

 young queens but little drone-comb is built. 



Eugene Secor-I have not observed any- 

 thing corresponding with your experience. 



R. L. Taylor — Yes. from the nature of 

 things, not only more, but more in propor- 

 tion. 



P. H. Elwood— You are right — more 

 worker-comb, too. But more drone, rela- 

 tively. 



J. M. Hamliaueh — I think not. Use full 

 sheets of worker foundation, and obviate 

 this difficulty. 



G. M. Dooltttle- No, if you, fill the frames 

 with comb foundation of worker size. Yes, 

 if you use only starters in the frames. 



J E Pond— I think the experience of the 

 "querist" will be found to be that of 

 nearly all the apiarists in the country. 



C. Davenport — My experience has been 

 that there will, as a rule, but it largely de- 

 pends upon conditions. I have bad colo- 

 nies build about half drone-comb in 8-frame 

 hives. 



Adrian Getaz— If both colonies are of the 

 same size there will be more drone comb in 

 the larger brood-chamber. The larger the 

 colony is in proportion to the brood-nest, 

 the less drone-comb will be built. 



D. W. Heise— Yes. if the colony is given 

 the whole brood chamber when hived, with- 

 out full sheets of foundation, honey coming 

 in freely, and the queen should happen not 

 to be a very prolific one. 



Chas. Dadant & Son— If there is more, 

 take it out. The quantity of drone-comb 

 built depends on the proliBcness of the 

 queen at the time when comb is built. A 

 prolific queen will obtain a greater quantity 

 of worker-comb. 



E. S Lovesy— My experience is that this 

 question is governed more by the habits of 

 the bees than by the size of the hive. When 

 I find a colony exhibiting a penchant for 

 building drone comb. I aim to keep it from 

 being in or near the brood-nest, and if I 

 find unnecessary drone-brood I remove it 

 from the hive. 



G. VV. Demaree— In the brood-" nest " 

 proper, the age of the mother of the colony 

 has more than anv other factor to do with 

 the amount of drone-comb built by the 

 bees. Hive two swarms on half inch 

 starters, let the one colony have a young 

 queen, and the other a very old queen; now 

 watch the results, and your question will 

 be answered without regard to size of hive. 



Queens ! Queens ! 



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 My strain of Italians are unequaled as honey- 

 tratherers, and have no superior. Untested 

 Oueens, 75 cents each; Tested, SI. 00; Select 

 Tested, $1.5(1. 



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Sweet Clever (melilot) 60c $1.00 $2.25 $4.00 



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White Clover 80c 1.40 3.00 5.0O 



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Northern Queens. 



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