Oct. 12, 1899. 



AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL 



651 



Root's Column 



TheABCofBee-Ciiltiire 



1899 EDITION. 



The Only Cyclopedia «n Bees— 

 475 Pages. 



Do you want a complete work on this 

 subject ? Look at the following taken 

 from the index to the ABC. You will 

 notice that this is on one subject only. 



Bees •ti 



" Advantages to Fruit-raisiog. 142,146. 



318 219 



Age of 5 



Albino 45 



Amount of Nectar can Carry 319 



Anger of 14 



• Apis Dorsata gS 



Attachment to Home 1 



Attracted by Color of Flowers 231 



Black 44, 1<I3, 19.5 



' Breeding in Winter 317 



Bumble 330 



Buying and Selling — .53 



Carniolan 44 



Choosing location 3fi3 



Common Indian .... 4.5 



Cross 2.54. 3.55 



Cvprian 45, 193 



DiflFerence in Color 45, 193, 194 



Diseases of 93 



Dispostion to Rob (see Robbing) Is 



East Indian 45, 46 



Egyptian 41 



Enemies of 104 



First Flight of 4S 



Five banded 193 



Food of hatching 48 



For Business 193 



Following their Owner to the Grave. 333 

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



Growth of 47 



Hanging Out 78, 282 



Holy-Land 4.5, 194 



How they Build Comb 173, 177 



How they Grow 47 



" " from the Egg to the 



Time of Hatching 48 



How to Dispose of Annoying 14 



How Weighed 318 



Hunting 36 



Hybrid 187, 193. 193 



Instinct of. vs. Reason 219 



In Upper Rooms of Garrets 293 



Italian (see Italians) 193 



Lack of Compassion 339 



' Length of Flight (see Doolittle's 



141st com't) 199 



Manner of Ventilating the Hives . . . .306 



Moving 199 



Necessary to Fertilize Plants. . .143, 146 

 Need of Water 31i8 



' 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 2.58 



Races 45, 192 



Size of Worker-Cells 176 



Drone 176 



Study of the Habits of 47 



Telescopic Vision of 231 



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 1 year, $1.75. Specimen pa^es of ABC sent 

 free on request. 



THE A, L ROOT CO, 



MEDINA, OHIO. 



generally. Extracted that sold in Califor- 

 nia for 31; cents is now selling for 7. Ac- 

 cording to the same ratio, comb honey that 

 sold two years ago at 10 cents in our mar- 

 kets should now bring 20; and yet 13 to 15 

 is about the top notch of the Eastern mar- 

 ket. It the buyer wants honey it appears 

 to me he will have to offer more than these 

 figures. There is evidently much honey in 

 Colorado, but it will never find its way 

 East until our markets advance more than 

 they have done. 



It should be understood that commission 

 quotations usually stand higher than cash 

 offers, for the reason that from the former 

 must be deducted freight and 10 percent 

 commission ; but in whichever way the offer 

 is made, the honey-dealers should under- 

 stand that they will have to advance some 

 before they will have much honey to offer. 

 —Editorial in Gleanings in Bee-Culture. 



The Marooii-Yello-w <(Meslion. 

 ami l»ni-e Ilalians.— To the question 

 askt Mr. Doolittle by Dr. Miller, why it was 

 that Mr. Doolittle in all these years never 

 before said that Italians were maroon and 

 not yellow, Mr. D. starts to make reply in 

 Gleanings in Bee-Culture, but before reach- 

 ing the question proper seems to become 

 switcht off onto a side-track, and never re- 

 turns to the main line. He refers to the 

 discussion in the early seventies about the 

 purity of Italians, when he says it was fully 

 proven that the Italians are not a pure race. 

 Then the matter died down, says Mr. Doo- 

 little. who continues: 



"But for the past 5 years this matter of 

 'markings' has again forged to the front, 

 and the low rumblings of dissatisfaction 

 first heard have almost reacht the fury of a 

 storm, and parties are being denounced for 

 lying about the markings, purity and color 

 of their bees, and thus an nniinportaiit mat- 

 ter has become an iinpo}ia/d one." 



Editor Root replies that they sell $;3,000 

 to $'S 000 worth of queens every season, this 

 year more than ever, and if any complaint 

 has come in to them with regard to the 

 color matter he does not remember to have 

 seen it. He says he agrees with Mr. Doo- 

 little that the only way to determine the 

 purity of Italians is by their markings, and 

 that " placing bees on a window, before the 

 light, is an extreme and perhaps unreliable 

 test for the determination of the purity of 

 the bees in question." 



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Well Satisfied with Results. 



I bought one colony of bees last tall ; they 

 wintered well, and in the spring I put them 

 out and kept the cold winds from them, and 

 also protected them from the hot rays of 

 the sun. They gave me two good swarms 

 in June, and as 1 did not want them to 

 swarm again I took 10 pounds of box-honey 

 from the super the first of July, so as to 

 give them room. Sept. 15 I took 30 pounds 

 more of box-honey from the old colony, and 

 30 from the first swarm, noue from the sec- 

 ond. This is my first experience. I am very 

 well satisfied. As there are no bees kept 

 within several miles of me. and there is 

 plenty of clovers, basswood and golden-rod. 

 I hope to keep quite a number of colonies 

 and do well. I followed the Bee Journal's 

 advice. Wm. Brown. 



Herkimer Co., N. Y., Sept. 33. 



One of the Numerous Asters. 



Our bees are rolling in nectar from wild 

 aster, whenever it is warm enough for them 

 to work on it. Our first frost came about 

 a week ago and still it does not seem to 

 have any effect on the aster, altho we have 

 had two or three frosts since. I send a 

 bunch of asters, showing its stalk and 

 blooms, which I pluckt from a swamp where 



Dairy Farm For Sale 



consist! ntr of 235 acres, as good a farm as there 

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

 of the Chicagro court-house, on the old Chicago 

 and Milwaukee stag-e-road (or Milwaukee Ave. 

 now), and \% miles from Prairie View on the 

 Wisconsin Central railroad. The beautiful Des- 

 plaines river runs thru the pasture, besides the 

 timber land. Also l'> 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, but 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., 



Mrs. J. B. flyers, Libertijville, Lake Co. III. 



Please mention Bee Journal when -writing. 



The Fence That Revolylionized 



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fences is srielled "P-A-G-E" and it has heen im- 

 proved and uuproved in material and cunstructiou. 

 Please mention Bee Journal -when writing. 



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Notice! Friends! 



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 season to get 



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winter, ttununer and all the time. 



Properly feci, (lireen Cut Bone makes a steady 

 layer of any hen. She will lay double the ecRa. 



MANN'S NEW BONE CUTTER 



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