Sept. 21, 1899. 



AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL, 



603 



Root's Column 



The New Edition 



-OF THE- 



^^iK ABC ^^^ 



OF 



BEE-CULTURE 



Now Ready 



Before the next issue of American 

 Bee Journal is out we hope to have the 

 new edition of the ABC book in the 

 hands of those who have had their or- 

 ders with us so long. The new book 

 will be, in many respects, far ahead of 

 any of the previous editions, both in 

 typographical appearance and general 

 subject-matter, for we are now build- 

 ing upon the knowledge and e.xperience 

 of these latter days, when such won- 

 derful developments have been made 

 all along the line. 



The subjects of "Apiaries" and 

 -" House-apiaries "' have been recast. 

 "Crimson Clover" is anew subject. 

 The subject of "Bees" has been en- 

 larged to take in Apis dorsala and 

 other races of bees. "Comb Honej-," 

 as well as " Comb Foundation," has 

 been rewritten from beginning to end, 

 besides considerably more being added. 

 The subject of " Hive-making " is en- 

 tirely recast. In the former editions, 

 only one hive was described in detail. 

 This was followed with matter show- 

 ing how to make hives, sections, etc., 

 by pozvt'r machinery. No particular 

 liive is now described in " Hive-mak- 

 ing," and the matter is simmered down 

 to the processes of cutting up stuff on 

 foot-power and lig-ht-powerniachiner)-. 

 As to dimensions, the reader is advised 

 to send to some manufacturer for a 

 sample standard hive in flat, and from 

 the parts of this secure his measure- 

 ments. "Hives." a,n entirely new sub- 

 ject, contains a description of all the 

 best ones. Among them may be seen 

 the old-style Langstroth, the Simplic- 

 ity, the Dovetailed Langstroth in its 

 various forms; the Danzenbaker, the 

 Heddon. the Dadant, and, under this 

 head, large and small hives. This is 

 followed by a discussion on double- 

 walled or winter hives. Various prin- 

 ciples are illustrated, all the way from 

 the loose to the closed-end frame. The 

 subject of "Hives" is followed b3- three 

 more ne%v subjects, "Honey asa Food." 

 "Honey Cooking- recipes," and "Honey- 

 peddling." 



The new book contains the same 

 number of pages as the old one, and 

 will be sold at the same price — $1.20 

 postpaid : or clubbed with Gle.\nixgs 

 IN Bee-Cultuke for one year for $1.75. 



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lu the multitude of counsellors there is 

 safety.— Prov. 11-14. 



Foul Brood and Pickled Brood. 



Query 104. — !. Urietly five the location .ind 

 etfect o"f foul brood. t,Mving- one or more causes. 

 :;. The same as to picUled brood.— Colo. 



Eugene Seeor— No experience. 



Mrs. J. M. Null— No experience. 



Dr. J. P. H. Brown— No experience. 



Prof. A. J. Cook— I don't understand. 



Mrs. L. Harrison— Have had no experi- 

 ence with either. 



R. L. Taylor— Your question is quite un- 

 intelligible to me. 



O. O. Poppleton— Have no experience 

 with either disease. 



S. T. Pettit— I don't know enough about 

 either to write about them. 



W. G. Larrabee— I have had no experi- 

 ence with either foul or pickled brood. 



C4. M. Doolittle— Get Howard's treatise 

 on foul brood. Too long for this depart- 

 ment. 



Dr. C. C. Miller- See back numbers of this 

 journal, and get Dr. Howard's foul brood 

 pamphlet. 



D. W. Heise— 1. Leave this tor the foul 

 brood experts. '2. Read up Dr. Howard on 

 pickled brood. 



Adrian Getaz— 1. See Dr. Howard's foul 

 brood book. 2. See American Bee Journal 

 of Sept. 10, 1S96. 



J. A. Green— Read the books and articles 

 on this subject. There is not room here for 

 what is askt for. 



J. A. Stone— 1 and 3. I have never had 

 any experience with either, and so know 

 nothing about them. 



A. F. Brown— 1. Thruout the brood-nest. 

 Effect— destruction of the colony. 2. No 

 experience with pickled brood. 



C. H. Dibbern— 1. In my more than SO 

 years' experience I have never seen a case 

 of foul brood, and personally know nothing 

 about it. 



R. C. Aikin— 1. What do you mean by 

 "location?' It is in the larval brood — 

 kills them. I do uot know the cause, ex- 

 cept infection. 2. 1 think I never saw it. 



J. M. Hamhaugh— 1. Foul brood is a 

 microbe disease, transmitted thru honey 

 infected with the organisms. 2. As to pick- 

 led brood, it may happen from various 

 causes. 



E. Whitcomb— Plenty of it in this local- 

 ity. Brood dies instead of maturing, gen- 

 erally while in the chrysalis stage. The 

 colony soon dies of olJ age. Robber-bees 

 carry it from infected colonies to stronger 

 ones. 2. I don't know. 



Emerson T. Abbott— I have had no ex- 

 perience with foul brood, and have seen 

 only one case in all my experience with 

 bees. In tact, I am glad to be able to say 

 that I know but very little about the dis- 

 eases of bees, from experience. 



C. Davenport— 1. I have bad no experi- 

 ence with foul brood, and sincerely hope I 

 never will have. 2. Pickled brood severely 



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