Sept. 28, 1899. 



AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL 



619 



Root's Column 



THE 



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OF 



Bee=Culture 



1899 EDITION. 



Xhe Only Cyclopedia on Bees 



i,ooo Already Sold. 



The demand for this work has be- 

 come so great that the preceding- edi- 

 tion, consisting of 10,000 copies, was 

 exhausted some months before the new 

 one could be gotten out ; and in the 6 

 months intervening, something like 

 1,000 copies of the new work have been 

 sold, and that even before it was out of 

 the press. This, the latest edition, 

 reaches the 67.000 mark, and is in many 

 respects very much superior to any 

 previous edition, in typographical ap- 

 pearance and quantity of new subject 

 matter and general revision of old sub- 

 jects, as we are now building upon the 

 knowledge and experience of these lat- 

 ter days, when such wonderful strides 

 are being made in the arts and sciences. 



The entire work contains 475 pages 

 and nearly as many engravings, a very 

 large part of wliich belong to the mod- 

 ern half-tone class, showing nature 

 and art as they really are. Something- 

 like 50 new full-page half-tone engrav- 

 ings have been put into the new book, 

 most of which are printed on what is 

 known as enamel book paper — the fin- 

 est there is sold. 



No pains have been spared to make 

 this the fullest and most up-to-date 

 bee-book that we have ever gotten out ; 

 and the very fact that nearl3' a thou- 

 sand copies were sold, even before the 

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 the general bee-keeping public appre- 

 ciates our efforts in giving something 

 realh' exhaustive and up-to-date. 



No matter if j-ou have an old edition, 

 3'ou can hardly afford not to have this 

 new work. While it is. in a sense, 

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Price, in cloth, 475 pages, gotten up 

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ADDRESS 



THE A, L ROOT CO, 



MEDINA, OHIO. 



Questions About Honey-Dew. 



I want to ask Mr. C. C. Parsons some 

 questions about honey dew being a natural 

 secretion. (See page .546. ) 



Mr. Parsons, you say that the most copi- 

 ous honey -dew you ever saw was in 1S97, 

 and it was from the pine, and that it ex- 

 uded from the leaves. Are you certain 

 that it was not turpentine' I think you 

 would better take your ax, go to those 

 pines and cut notches in them, for you will 

 get turpentine much faster than your bees 

 can gather it on the leaves. 



Why is it that honey-dew is never on the 

 under side of the leaves, it it does exude 

 from them? 



I hope you will tell us more about it in 

 your next. A. J. McBride. 



Watauga Co., N. C, 



Bees Did Very Well. 



Bees have done very well here this sea- 

 son. I have taken 2,500 pounds of honey, 

 and expect to get about 2.000 pounds more, 

 from 30 colonies, spring count. 



My bees had the swarming fever badly 

 this year. Some of the first swarms 

 swarmed three times, and some of the old 

 colonies cast three swarms— two swarms 

 two months after casting the first. They 

 have increast from 34 to 10.5 colonies, and 

 are doing well, with the exception of four 

 that are queenless. Edward Knoll. 



Ontario, Canada, Sept. 6. 



Quite a Poop Season. 



This has been quite a poor honey season 

 — cool and wet all winter and spring, up to 

 about June 1.5 or 20. Bees built up very 

 slowly on that account, and most colonies 

 were quite weak when there was any nec- 

 tar to gather. There was but little swarm- 

 ing; and out of 12 colonies, spring count, 

 I will have about 300 pounds of honey, 

 about halt extracted; besides plenty of 

 stores to winter on Wm. H. Brooks. 



Snohomish Co., Wash,, Sept. 13. 



But Little Surplus In Califopnia. 



There will be but little surplus honey pro- 

 duced in this portion of California, and a 

 good many bees have died of starvation. I 

 have lost about 50 percent of my own dur- 

 ing the past two dry years, and I .judge 

 from conversations with bee keepers that 

 there will be fully that proportion lost 

 thruout the county. 



Last spring I made up my mind to let 

 them get thru as best they could, but later 



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