Nov. 2, 1899. 



AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL, 



699 



Rooi's Golumn 



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Bee = Culture. 



Revised in 1889 by E. R. Root. 



(_)nlY one month since it came from 



the press, but nearly EIGHTEEN HUN = 



DRED COPIES sold. No other Amer- 



i ican work on this subject is kept up to 



date like the A B C of Bee-Culture. 



See what the senior editor of the 

 British Bee Journal, publisht in Lon- 

 : don, says ; 



" I must thank you for your kindness 

 in sending' me a copy of your new edi- 

 tion of the A E C of Bee-Culture, which 

 I have cursorily pursued with great 

 pleasure. I see there is a great deal of 

 new matter introduced to the advan- 

 tage of the book. 



'■ Your plan of revising every edition 

 and eliminating obsolete practices and 

 . appliances is a very good one. and it is 

 the only way to keep up with the times 

 because a few years make such a 

 change in bee-keeping, and those books 

 written 8 or 10 years ago are, quite ob- 

 s<jlete. There are only three books 

 that I know of that are issued on the 

 same principle, and these are your 

 A B C of Bee-Culture, Bertrand's Con- 

 duite du Rucher, and my guide-book." 

 Yours very truly. 



Thos. Wm. Cowan. 



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longed flow as Italians do, while at the 

 same time they store enough for the future. 

 Its only faults are its inclination to rob, 

 and to fly for nectar in bad weather, when 

 numbers often perish. Since 1873 he has 

 shipt nearly 0,000 colonies and 8.500 queens 

 to nearly all the countries of Europe and 

 America, and from Russia to Illinois. Ohio 

 and Kentucky, and it has met with great 

 favor. It is gray, with yellowish abdomi- 

 nal rings and yellowish down, and some- 

 what slenderer than the Carniolan, and it 

 has a direct flight, while that of the Carnio- 

 lan is waving. The best colored examples 

 are in southern Hungary ; those from the 

 mountainous regions are much darker. — 

 Bee-Keepers' Review. 



Rcversinjr Extracting' - t'oiiihs 

 <tuickl) .—Messrs. Coggshall and Howe 

 have a rapid method of reversing the 

 combs when extracting. There are two 

 combs in each basket, with a sheet of tin 

 between them. The honey from the inner 

 comb is thrown against the tin and runs 

 down just the same as tho it had been 

 thrown against the inside of the extracting- 

 can. To reverse the combs, a comb in the 

 basket farthest away isgraspt with the left 

 hand, and one in the nearest basket by the 

 right hand, then they are lifted up and 

 quickly exchanged without any turning 

 about. The comb from the far basket is put 

 down in the near basket, and "ice ivrsa. This 

 obviates any turning around of the combs, 

 and two are moved at the same time. Mr. 

 Coggshall prefers to have shallow combs go 

 into the basket the same way as they hang 

 in the hive, as they can be reverst with less 

 motion.— Bee-Keepers' Review. 



'I'he Price ot I*Iaii« Sections. — 



One of the arguments in favor of plain sec- 

 tions was that, taking less lumber and labor 

 than the old style, they would cost less. So 

 far they have beeu sold at the same price. 

 There may be jilstiBcation for this on the 

 ground that a manufacturer who has been 

 at some pains to introduce them should 

 have some reward therefor. But one can 

 hardly see why those who have made no 

 effort for their introduction, and especially 

 those who have opposed them, should be 

 thus rewarded. Yet all alike sell the plain 

 sections at the same price as the old-style, 

 the manufacturers being the only ones 

 benefited by the change. According to 

 Gleanings in Bee Culture, however, a 

 change Is likely to come. The editor snys: 

 "Since basswood timber, like all other 

 timber, is advancing so sharply— nearly a 

 third- it begins to look as if there ought to 

 be a diflJerence iu price between plain sec- 

 tions and the old-style with bee-ways; for 

 the latter, taking more timber, and more 

 labor to make, of necessity cost more.... 

 There will probably not be much dilTerence 

 in the price the coming season, altho it is 

 plain that, when plain sections come more 

 into popular favor, they will have to be 

 sold for less money. Our own books show 

 that they are working that way." 



Kcc-Iic<-]>ins' in Wreeoe. — Glean- 

 ings in Bee-Culture says that a correspon- 

 dent of the Revue Eclectique, in writing 

 from Greece, gives the following: 



" From the most remote antiquity, and 

 even before all civilization, Greece was a 

 country essentially honey-yielding; and 

 even down to our times the honey harvest 

 in Hellenic countries has had a celebrity 

 that no other rival product has been able 

 to share; for the abundance and especially 

 the richness of the flora of certain locali- 

 ties favor in an especial manner this agri- 

 cultural industry. 



" Nevertheless, in spite of the exceptional 

 situation of Greece, it is to be noted that 

 the honey-production of that State does 

 not exceed .5200,000 in value, and this does 

 not suffice for home consumption. On the 

 other hand, the celebrated honey of Hy- 

 mettus. once gathered upon the mountain 

 of that name, is produced no more. Gre- 

 cian honey, the superiority of which is due 

 essentially to its aroma, and to its fine fla- 



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