Oct. 5, 1899. 



AMERICAN BEE IOURNAI>, 



635 



Root's Column 



TheABCofBee-Ciiltnre 



1899 EDITION. 



'I'hc Only Cjclopedla on Bees— 

 .175 Pages. 



Do YOU want a complete work on this 

 subject ? Look at the foUowinfj taken 

 from the index to the A B C. You will 

 notice that this is on one subject only. 



Bees 44 



'■ Advantages to Fiuit-raisiDg. 142,14B. 



■il.S 31!) 



' Age of .5 



' Albino 4,5 



' Amount of Nectar can Carry 319 



' Anger of 14 



' Apis Dorsata g3 



• Attacbment to Home 1 



■ Attracted by Color of Flowers 221 



■ Black 44, 193, 19.5 



■ Breeding in Winter 317 



• Bumble ...320 



' Buying and Selling 53 



' Carniolan 44 



• Cboosing location 363 



' Common Indian 45 



' Cross 254. 2.55 



' Cvprian 45, 193 



• Difference in Color 45, 192, 194 



' Diseases of. 93 



' Dispostion to Rob (see Robbing) .... Is 



' East Indian 45. 4fi 



' Egyptian 41 



' EnemiPS of 104 



■ First Flight of 48 



• Five banded 192 



■ Food of batching 48 



• For Business 192 



' Following their Uwner to the Grave. 323 



• Getting them Out of Sections. . . .78, 79 



■ Growth of 47 



• Hanging Out 78, 282 



■ Holy-Land 45, 194 



• How they Build Comb 173, 177 



' How they Grow 47 



from the Ej;g to the 



Time of Hatching 48 



' How to Dispose of Annoying 14 



' How Weighed 318 



' Hunting 30 



' Hybrid 187, 192] 193 



' Instinct of. vs. Reason 319 



' In Upper Rooms of Garrets 393 



' Italian (see Italians) 193 



' Lack of Compassion 229 



'Length of Flight (see Doolittle's 

 I41st com't) 199 



■ Manner of Ventilating the Hives. . . .306 



' Moving 1 99 



' Necessary to Fertilize Plants. . .143, 146 

 ' Need of Water 3li8 



• Number in a Quart 213 



' Number in Pound 319 



' Number to Carry Pound of Honey. .319 



' On Shares s9 



' '■ Disadvantages of 49 



' On the Rampage 254 



' Playspell of Young 358 



' Races 45, 193 



' Size of Worker-Cells 176 



' ■■ Drone 176 



' Study of the Habits of 47 



' Telescopic Vision of 221 



• Time of Hatching 47 



' To Get Out of Sections 79 



• Uniting in Fall 301 



Spring 301 



' " New Swarms 301 



■ Weight of 318 



' What Age to Have (see age of Bees) 5 



* Price, $1.20, postpaid, or clubbed with Glean- 

 ings I .vear, 51.75. Specimen pasres of ABC sent 

 free on recjuest. 



THE A, L ROOT CO, 



MEDINA, OHIO. 



them to lose action and stay out over night. 

 Some of them recover by morning, and 

 some perish. 



■' E. Wbitcomb— (i)uite frequently when 

 gathering honey or pollen from quite a 

 distance, or when overtaken by a sudden 

 storm, they seek the friendly protection on 

 the under side of some leaf, and return 

 home as soon as opportunity offers. 



C. Davenport— I don't know. I have 

 often seen bees come in from the field very 

 early, but perhaps they wake up early, or 

 were unable to sleep at all, and so went out 

 earlier than the others. I have never seen 

 any sleeping out in the fields at night, but 

 it may be some prefer to lie out in the fresh 

 air. 



Rev. M. Mahin— It is very common for 

 bees to stay out all night. After a rainy 

 night I have often seen bedraggled and for- 

 lorn looking bees come in in the morning. 

 It you shut a hive up in the evening, at a 

 time when nectar is plenty, you will be 

 surprised at the number of bees that will 

 be clamoring for entrance in the early 

 morning. 



mi'i^^^mrii^^mi^^ii^ss 



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E Best Honey Crop in Three Years. 



The honey crop in this county this year 

 has been the best for three years. My crop 

 of 3,600 pounds is all sold, mostly extracted, 

 at 10 to 20 cents. I could have sold a ton 

 more if I had hnd it. J. M. Docdna. 



Douglas Co.. Minn., Sept. 20. 



The Bee-Smoker Man's Report 



I am making a cellar to winter my bees. 

 The season has been good for rearing bees, 

 but no one seems to think it has been up to 

 the average for honey. My 16 little 11th- 

 of May colonies have increast to 93. with 

 honey enough to winter them, as far as 

 honey will do that. Of course, my honey 

 crop is not much, but after I decided not to 

 increase them more, an effort was made to 

 get a little section honey for family use, 

 and I have 318 pounds of nice fall crop. 



Last winter reduced the bees in this 

 region more than one-half, and this winter 

 will start in with less than '^ that last win- 

 ter did. T. F. BiSGUAM. 



Clare Co.. Mich., Sept. 23. 



Very Poor Year for Bees. 



I should have been pleased to have been 

 with you at the lute bee-convention, but it 

 was too far tor me to attend. It has been 

 a very poor year here for bees and honey. 

 I have lost over one-half of my bees since 

 spring came — some 40 odd colonies — and 

 some of the balance are very weak. I don't 

 know what the matter is with them. They 

 fly out and drop down, and never rise 

 again, but crawl around on the ground and 

 die. Bees in this place are nearly all dead. 

 Mine have plenty of honey. 



Z 'Z3 ~ - JOSHIA Tekkt. 



Salt Lake Co.. Utah. Sept. 17. 



Honey an Entire Failure. 



Honey is an entire failure in this vicinity 

 this season. I'm afraid lots of the bees will 

 starve the coming winter, but I was lucky 

 enough to get enough winter stores for 

 mine. JouN H. Rli'P. 



Washington Co . Kans., Sept. 15. 



Probably Prairie Clover. 



Will you kindly inform me what the 

 name of the enclosed plant is. I enclose the 

 entire top of one plant. It grows about 

 two feet liigh, and bees are working on it 

 in large numbers. It grows on land which 



Dairy Farm For Sale 



consisting- of 235 acres, as g-ood a farm as there 

 is in Lake Co., 111., located only 26 miles north 

 of the Chicago court-house, on tbe old Chicag-o 

 and Milwaukee stage-road (or Milwaukee Ave. 

 now], and U2 miles from Prairie View on the 

 Wisconsin Central railroad. The beautiful Des- 

 plaines river runs thru the pasture, besides the 

 timber land. Also 1') acres of good timber one 

 mile northeast of Half Day, making 254 acres 

 in all. 



The farm is not only a splendid one for dairy- 

 ing, bui is also a good location for bees. There 

 is white clover, sweet clover, basswood, etc. 

 The editor of the American Bee Journal has 

 been on the farm and will confirm every state- 

 ment concerning its value. 



Address, for further particulars, terms, etc., 



J. B. flYERS, Libertijville, Lake Co., II!. 



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