-Nov. 16, 1899. 



AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL 



731 



Root's Column 



Tlie Home 



OF THE 



Honey-Bees 



as seen thru the 

 Camera. 



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 ings in Bee-Culture, we will witli 

 pleasure send you free a copy of our 

 double number which will be issued 

 Nov. 15. This will contain 8 full pages 

 of illustrations of our apiary and views 

 of our factory, inside and out. To those 

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 receive the better we shall like it. In 

 this number you will find a dozen or 

 more special offers for our bee-keeping 

 friends, but these will not be given in 

 "this column ; you must send for sample 

 copy. Be sure to say Nov. ISth issue. 



Watch for our ad. in 

 this coluttiu next week. 



THE A. L ROOT CO, 



MEDINA, OHIO. 



'' All my sections are carefully graded, 

 and clean a.s bands and care can make tbem. 

 Those of the finest quality and color (white 

 clover and sainfoin), well filled and sealed 

 (except cells next to the woodwork), with 

 combs built out and attaeht to the wood of 

 the section ; such form our first grade or 'se- 

 lected quality.' These we glaze in lace pa- 

 per and pay carriaj^e to London or other 

 places of about equal distance at 10s. per 

 dozen; the next, or second grade, at lis.; 

 and all below that we just s-ell for what 

 they are worth — say 7s. Bd. toS.s. per dozen. 

 We rarely have an inquiry for unglazed 

 sections; and 'glazing' means a big job 

 with our two large apiaries; but it pays." 



And that's the bold Britisher that was 

 talking about American bee-keepers com- 

 manding the best market prices for their 

 painstaking labors. How many Americans 

 take such pains in marketing ? and how 

 many get 31 cents each for sections, and 

 l.'i^i cents for culls ? 



<tiieen-Cells !^tai-tetl ^Villioiit 

 Koyal Jelly. — There has been some dis- 

 pute as to whether it was the shape of the 

 cell or the royal jelly put in with the larva 

 that determined the bees to rear a queen. 

 W. C Gathright says in Gleanings in Bee- 

 Culture: 



"I have made many experiments, giving 

 royal jelly to one batch of cells and another 

 batch beside them without any; and if 

 there is anything I am sure of about bee- 

 keeping it is that it does not make one par- 

 ticle of difference whether you put in the 

 royal jelly or not, either in artificial cups 

 or drone-cells. Any one who wishes to 

 prove this can go and examine the cell- 

 cups, as I have often done, two or three 

 times after putting in the royal jelly and 

 the larva?, and they will find the royal jelly 

 lickt out clean. I have examined them thus 

 dozens of times, and never have found a 

 single instance where the bees would leave 

 the feed which I put into the cell. Even 

 when every cell was accepted they have al- 

 ways removed the feed which I had put in, 

 and then commenced to feed the larviv to 

 suit themselves." 



Itet's on tlie Farm.— If there are no 

 bees within two miles of your farm, it 

 would pay you to buy one or more colonies 

 and keep them, even tho you should never 

 take an ounce of honey from them. You 

 need them to fertilize flowers of different 

 kinds. Fruits especially. It at the time 

 your apple-trees are in bloom it is so cold 

 and wet that bees do not fly, you need not 

 count on much of a crop of apples. If you 

 look hastily at an apple blossom, you might 

 not think bees are needed to carry pollen to 

 the right place, for are not stamens and 

 pistils on one and the same flower ? And 

 will not the pollen fall of itself from the 

 stamen upr'n the pistil '. Ah, yes, but 

 watch closely, and you'll see that Dame 

 Nature has provided against such close 

 breeding. The stamens and the pistils do 

 not mature at the same time ! 8o when the 

 jiistil is in a receptive condition, some out- 

 side agency is needed to bring the pollen 

 from elsewhere, and this work is chiefly 

 done by the denizens of the hive. Besides, 

 there is more vigor in the fruit if the pollen 

 is brought from some other plant or tree. — 

 National Stockman. 



'I'lie Ooolillle I'lan of ISeurin^ 

 <tiientN, as practiced by Mr. Doolittle 

 himself, requires no queenless bees, the 

 cells being started from the beginning in a 

 story over an excluder, with a laying queen 

 beneath. Some say they cannot get the 

 cells started without first giving tbem to 

 queenless bees; others say they can get a 

 larger number started by first giving them 

 to queenless bees. Here is the plan of W. 

 C. Gathright, as given in Gleanings in Bee- 

 Culture: 



"About getting them accepted in colo- 

 nies having a laying queen, I have had 

 them accepted in upper stories, but it is 

 very uncertain about the number they ac- 

 cept— generally very few; sometimes only 

 one; so to make sure of getting enough I 

 have them started in queenless hives. I can 



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