Oct. 19, 1899. 



AMERICAN BEE lOUENAL, 



667 



Root's Goiumn 



We must ask our Bee Journal cus- 

 tomers to bear with us a little longer. 

 Our bindery turns out 100 copies of the 

 ABC each day, but we are still a little 

 behind on orders. We confidently ex- 

 pect, however, to have ALL orders 

 filled promptly within a week, or by 

 the time this notice reaches you. We 

 are much pleased with the number of 

 orders we are receiving daily. Last 

 week we gave you a sample of the 

 index on Bees. Look at Comb Honey : 



Comb Honey 72 



" " Barbor Method of Producing . 7,S 



" " Cartons for 85,86 



[^ " Costing- More to Produce 73 



Doolittle Single-tier W. frame 



., ^ for 73 



„ Escapes for 79, 80, 81 



" E.\tra Fancy 85,88,89 



,[ ,',' I'eeding back unfinisht sections Sj 

 „ J Four-beeway Sections for jij 



^ Glass Sections of oq 



!." '.. Grading- of 86,87,88 



4. . "o"" '" fret bees into supers for 78 

 How to get the Bees out of Sec- 

 tions of 70 gy )i{^ 



in Old-fashioned Glass Boxes. ' 73 



^^ ■ 'n Section Honey-bo.x 73 



[^ *' Marketing ' 89-9'> 



J I" Narrow Sections for ^ S4 



^^ Not Counterfeited 7-1 



" !' Packages for 84, 86, 88,' 90, 91 



J'^raping Sections of 80,81,82 



Selling at commission houses 90-9" 



„ ^; Selling for Casi 97 



„ gelling in Local Markets 89 



^^ " Separators for 75,77 .S3 



" Size of Sections for '...'84 



Supers for 74 75 77 



',[ " Tall vs. Square Sections fo'r...' 84 



„ Tienng Up for 70 



to Keep 9-, 



" ."! T? ^'=<^'"'« ~- 7.S. 79,' 80,' 8]', 84 



„ Unflncsht Sections of 82 83 



,_ i-s. E.vtracted 72 



' " when to Put on Supers for . . 77, 7.8 



when to Take Sections off 7'l 



Wide Frames for 73 



Besides this, there are numerous ref- 

 erences to the general subject of Honey 

 and also to Extracted Honey. 



Price, SI. 20 postpaid, or SI. 00 if shipt 

 with other goods. This book tnay be 

 obtained of 



GEORGE W. YORK & CO., 



or of any large dealer in bee-keepers' 

 supplies. 



THE A, L ROOT CO, 



MEDINA, OHIO. 



he, " but it seems to m© that a man could 

 make but slight headway hunting bees at a 

 time when they will not rob; and that is 

 when there is a good honey-flow." Neither 

 does he think they can be lined from their 

 drinking-places along streams of water. 

 He mentions a brook where the edges of 

 the stream were fairly swarming with bees 

 after water at a time when little honey was 

 gathered; but during a good honey-flow 

 scarcely a bee could be found near the 

 brook. He mentions an instance where a 

 puddle of honey stood tor days on hard clay 

 soil in front of a hive, and not a bee touchl 

 it, being busy on basswood. 



A ^ew ItaMswood — 'I'ilia I*elio- 

 I:(ri»i. — The British Bee Journal is enthu- 

 siastic, as well it may be, over the discov- 

 ery of a new linden or basswood tree — 

 "lime" it is called in England— which is 

 about three weeks later than the common 

 linden, commencing to yield just as the or- 

 dinary linden ceases, practically doubling 

 the length of the linden harvest. It is an 

 exceedingly ornamental tree, annual growth 

 strong yet pendulous; leaves large, dark 

 green on the upper surface, silvery below. 

 High priced, of course, owing to scarcity, 

 but it may be well for bee-keepers to be on 

 the lookout for Tilia petiolaris. 



A Snialloi- Wax- Worm is reported 

 in Gleanings in Bee-Culture by Dr. Miller. 

 He says: 



"I've read of a wax-worm smaller than 

 the common kind, and within a week have 

 seen it in two apiaries. It has no gallery 

 among the cappings; indeed. I don't know 

 that it has any gallery. Its presence is in- 

 dicated by the wriggling of one or more 

 young bees unable to leave the cell. Pull 

 out the bee, and at the bottom of the cell is 

 a worm about '.jinch long, slender and 

 very lively A sort of web is fastened to 

 the young bee." 



Two kinds of bee-moths are spoken of 

 somewhat confusedly in the books, but in 

 this country, at least in the North, bee- 

 keepers have spoken as if there was only 

 the one kind. The question is whether the 

 Doctor has made a new acquaintance, or 

 whether it is only our old friend { ?), f/alleria 

 cereanti, in a different role. 



I^ar.y May ot Keeping' <tiieeii!!i. 



—A Stray Straw in Gleanings in Bee-Cul- 

 ture is as follows: 



"A caged queen may be laid at the en- 

 trance of any populous colony during the 

 working season, and the bees will cluster 

 over the cage and care for the queen just 

 the same as tho she were inside the hive." 

 — Bee-Keepers' Review. Two years ago I 

 used a lazier plan than that. I threw a 

 caged old queen at the foot of an apple-tree 

 in the middle of the apiary. A few bees 

 came and clustered on the cage, as they 

 often will. Then I threw another old queen 

 there, and in the course of a few days there 

 were a dozen or so of them. They stayed 

 there for weeks, thru rain and shine. An 

 amusing feature was that, altho the cluster 

 was never as big as my first, it swarmed 

 very frequently (of course always return- 

 ing), sometimes several times in a day. 



Xke Ori^'iii ot lloney-Uetv. that 

 ever unsettled problem, is up again in the 

 Bee-Keepers' Review, J. O. Shearman and 

 Adrian Getaz taking opposite sides. Mr. 

 Shearman says it is secreted only after a 

 rapid growing time is followed by a sudden 

 change with cool nights, arresting growth : 

 then when the weather gets hot again the 

 honey-dew disappears. lice or no lice. Mr. 

 Getaz thinks there has been a failure of 

 careful investigation on the part of those 

 who believe in honey dew without lice. To 

 produce anything like nectar there must be 

 glands. If you cut into a cow, you will get 

 blood and not milk ; the milk can only be 

 where the glands secrete it. So there may 

 be an exudation of sap elsewhere than 

 where there are glands, but it will be sap. 

 not nectar. A reason for the doubt about 

 lice in all cases is that the lice may be high 

 up and at the ends of inaccessible branches. 



Dairy Farm For Sale 



consisting' of 235 acres, as good a farm as there 

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

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

 and Milwaukee stage-road 'or Milwaukee Ave. 

 now), and I's miles from Prairie View on the 

 Wisconsin Central railroad. The beautiful Des- 

 plaines river runs thru the pasture, besides the 

 limber land. Also l'> acres of good timber one 

 mile northeast of Half Da.y, making 254 acres 

 in all. 



The farm is not onl.v 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., 



Mrs, J. B. ftyers, Libertyville. Lake Go. III. 



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