l^ov. 9, 1899. 



AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL, 



715 



Root's Goluinn 



THE 



ABC"' Bee=CuIture 



Revised in 1899, 



Just from the 

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See what W. Z. Hutchinson, editor of the Bee- 

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A B C of Bee>CuIture. 



If there is any book on bee-keeping 

 of \vhich bee-keepers have reason to be 

 proud, it is Roofs ABC of Bee-Culture. 

 I am reminded of this by the receipt of 

 a copy of the latest edition, which is 

 just out. There is probably no firm in 

 the whole wide world possessing- the 

 facilities and advantages of The A. I. 

 Root Co. for getting out a work of this 

 kind. It has plenty of capital and a 

 thoroly equipt printing--office. More 

 than this, there is an experience of more 

 than 'i of a century in actual, practi- 

 cal bee-keeping. More than any one 

 else, an editor has an opportunity for 

 being fully informed regarding the 

 actual state of the industry which his 

 journal represents. Thousands of let- 

 ters from all parts of the country pass 

 under his eyes each year. In order that 

 the best possible advantage might be 

 taken of the knowledge thus secured. 

 The Root Co. have been to the expense 

 of keeping the book standing in type. 

 As often as new discoveries or changes 

 are made, a corresponding change is 

 made in the subject matter of the ABC. 

 By this method the last issue of the 

 book is up to date. It cannot be other- 

 wise than that the edition just out is 

 decidedly the superior of any previous 

 editions. I might go into details, but 

 the advertisement on the back cover of 

 the Review has saved me that trouble. 

 I can as thoroly endorse that advertise- 

 ment as tho I had written it myself as 

 an editorial notice. When a beginner 

 writes and asks me what book he better 

 l)Uy, I unhesitatingly tell him, "Root's 

 ABC of Bee-Culture,"— and I have a 

 ■book of my own to sell, 



W. Z. Hutchinson, 



Editor Bee-Kfepem' Jiettiew, 



The A B C of Bee-Culture can be had 

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of the frames they built about half or more 

 than half o£ drone-cells. From one such 

 starter they built a solid sheet of drone- 

 comb, filling the frame. From about half 

 the starters they built nice worker-comb, 

 but in two such combs I found large i|uan- 

 tities of drone-brood in worker-cells, tho 

 the queen was a vigorous one. as shown by 

 her record before, and also since upon being 

 shaken with the bees into a hive with all 

 worker-comb. Hence I conclude that I'j- 

 ineh spacing is not to be depended upon to 

 insure all worker-comb." 



Ii4'e]>ins: 1'i-uoU of tlie Sto<-lt.— 



Dr MUier recommends in Gleanings in Bee- 

 Culture the practice of marking in pencil 

 on one of the sections of a super when tak- 

 ing it off. the number of the colony from 

 which it was taken. •■ Then when you find 

 a super of greasy-looking sections you 

 know where to replace a queen nextspriug." 

 He might have added that when you Bud a 

 super of extra-white sections, you will know 

 next year where to find a queen as a 

 breeder, if she is all right otherwise. The 

 editor thinks this a good point in favor of 

 numbering hives. 



!^ele<'lion in lErceding' is a thing 

 that is in the hands not only ot the skillful 

 breeder, but to a large extent also in the 

 hands of the average bee-keeper with half 

 a dozen colonies. If be encourages breed- 

 ing from colonies that show best results 

 with fewest faults, improvement will fol- 

 low. A writer, in Le Kueher Beige says: 

 " If the common race had been maintained 

 in its purity by a severe selection, there 

 would have been no need to import bees of 

 foreign races." And yet. it the foreign 

 race is better, its introduction might be a 

 good thing. 



iflolliM in Hives. — In the British Bee 

 Journal. L. Glasspole says he has had great 

 trouble with moths, adding, " A strong col- 

 ony of bees can generally take care of their 

 own combs, but they will only take care of 

 the combs they cover, and one superfluous 

 comb will sometimes prove a veritable nur- 

 sery for the pest." This may sound a little 

 strange to many American bee-keepers, 

 who find a strong colony not only able to 

 protect all the combs it covers, but twice as 

 many idle combs besides. Quite likely the 

 difference' is in the bees, black bees being 

 preferred in England, while Italians lead 

 here. 



lieeping' Itees in 4'Iaiiips has not 



been much spoken of lately, altho Dr. L. C. 

 Whiting and O. J. Hetherington have prac- 

 ticed it for years successfully. Editor 

 Hutchinson has lately visited Mr. Hether- 

 ington, and gives in the Bee^Keepers' Re- 

 view two views of his clamps. The clamps 

 hold 7 or S colonies each, having two (eet 

 of length for each hive, three feet wide, 

 four feet high in front, and three feet high 

 at back. Planer shavings are used for pack- 

 ing. The packing is left till time to put on 

 sections, and the hives are left in clamp all 

 the year round. The bees are well shaded. 

 lie out very little in hot weather, and are 

 not driven out of the supers in cool nights; 

 but the hives are not handled so conven- 

 iently as when sitting singly in the yard, 

 and more queens are lost. 



Celluloid Kee-Veil. — The reason 

 why I was led to the study of bee-veils was 

 that the ordinary fine silk net that is used 

 in ordinary bee-veils is so fragile that it 

 breaks open in spots and allows the bees to 

 enter. I have purchast such netting at 

 stores that was, 1 was going to say, rotten, 

 and I guess that is about as good a term as 

 any to express the quality. A bee-keeper 

 in almost any country is liable to get his 

 head against a bush or a limb of a tree, and 

 every bee keeper knows how handily a twig 

 will catch into a veil and rend it. Then, a 

 silk veil is worth from .50 to 7.5 cents, and is 

 of such value that it ought to last longer. 

 The veil I present has an old material for 

 the back, and a new material for the front 

 — at least I have never heard of its being 

 used tor this purpose. It is very thin, very 



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