Dec. 14, 1899. 



AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL 



795 



Root's Column 



Bee-Keeping- in Colorado. 



The editor of Gleanings in Bee-Cul- 

 ture, Mr. E. R. Root, has just returned 

 from the Denver Bee-Keepers' Con- 

 vention, and reports that he has se- 

 cured some 50 views of Colorado scenes, 

 apiaries, homes of the bee-keepers, etc. 

 Many of these will find place on the 

 pages of Gleanings in Bee-Culture 

 during the coming year. 



Prize Pictures. 



In Gleanings of Dec. 15 we expect to 

 give pictures of the two best-looking 

 editors in all beedom. (Gleanings rep- 

 resentatives will not be in it, of course.) 

 Good looking girls will vie with them 

 in good looks, on other pages. 



Clubbing Rates. 



as an iiiuucenieiii lor _)ur suV)scribers to re- 

 new before the expiratio i of their present sub- 

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THE A. L ROOT CO. 



MEDINA, OHIO. 



there was more pollen in the hives. I have 

 seen many a colony that did not seem to 

 have an available cell of pollen. I feed 

 much • chop ' to my bees every spring — in 

 Iowa they would not be coaxt to use it. In 

 my location pollen-bearing plants are 

 scarce, pollen in sections is never thought 

 of, and does not occur. The flora is chang- 

 ing, and what applied a few years ago does 

 not now." 



$!iiiiall vs. I^ars'e IliveM lV>i- Comb 



Honey.— In Gleanings in Bee-Culture D. 

 N. Ritchey. of Licking Co . Ohio, makes a 

 strong plea for small hives. He cites the 

 case of a man who has very large hives, 

 and they swarm and give surplus only once 

 in 5 or (J years. Only once in 1.5 years have 

 the large swarms from these hives gathered 

 enough stores to last them thru the winter. 

 In a foot-note the editor says : 



■' In a word, the size of the brood-chamber 

 depends largely upon the locality, and, sec- 

 ondarily, upon the bee-keeper's peculiar 

 notions. From the mass of evidence that 

 has tteen produced. I believe large hives are 

 not practical in some localities, in the same 

 way that small ones are not adapted for 

 others. Manufacturers might as well give 

 up the notion that bee-keepers can be driven 

 like a flock of sheep over one road — the 

 road denominated the S-frame Langstroth 

 hive pure and simple. The proof of the 

 pudding is in the eating; and where large 

 hives give big results in dollars and cents, 

 it is folly to talk small hives; but when the 

 small hives will outstrip the big ones, as 

 seems to be the case in your locality, it is 

 penny wise and pound foolish to discard 

 small for large hives." 



Are Rol»I>er"Ilees Koltlter!* lor 

 Life ?— The general belief is that when a 

 bee once becomes a robber it never returns 

 to honest ways. Harry Howe, in Gleanings 

 in Bee-Culture, is inclined to discredit this 

 general belief. On his late arrival in Cuba 

 he saw robbers thicker and more aggres- 

 sive than he had ever seen them at the 

 North. In the hot afternoons, about the 

 only bees to be seen flying were those shiny 

 black fellows— perhaps professional rob- 

 bers. A walk thru the fields showed but 

 few bees on the blossoms, but of those that 

 were there a good many were those identi- 

 cal "robbers," with their shiny black 

 dress. Pretty strong proof that they were 

 willing to work for a living if they could 

 get a job. He further says: 



"Another point I should like the advo- 

 cates of the ■ once a robber always a rob- 

 ber ' idea to explain. What becomes of 

 them when a honey-How commences sud- 

 denly, as it often does, from basswood. for 

 instance ? One day the robbers may follow 

 one around the apiary by the hundred, 

 pitching into every hive that is opened. In 

 a day or two basswood is out. and one can 

 leave honey anywhere in the yard, and not 

 a bee will look at it." 



'riie ;>"ew Vork IIee-l>>!>>ea<>>e, or 



the disease now prevailing among the bees 

 of that State, is thus clearly described by 

 the bee-inspector, N. D. West, in Gleanings 

 in Bee-Culture: 



" We have. I think, more than one kind 

 of disease on the ground, and yet there 

 seems to be a tracing from what I have 

 called pickled brood, all the way along 

 from bad to worse, and in difl'erent stages, 

 until at last it so closely resemt)les foul 

 brood that it is difficult to draw the line be- 

 tween this and the genuine foul brood, 

 altho some of the dead brood will be found 

 at times to be flattened down into the cell, 

 ami will be about the color of white glue, 

 and will, when a toothpick is placed in it, 

 draw out from its cell from '2 t" t of an 

 inch. But you have to hold the toothpick 

 with an object in view, and try to get it to 

 string out or it will not follow the tooth- 

 pick at all. Some of this becomes coffee- 

 colored, and is rotten in the cell, and will 

 string out some, but it will not break and 

 spring back like rubber; neither do the 

 combs, when held close to the nose, give off 

 that offensive and sickening odor that I get 

 from what I call the old-time fouli brood. 



Yellow Sweet Clover Seed 



WE HAVE IT AT LAST 1 

 We have tinally succeeded in g'ettingf a small 

 quantity of the seed of the yellow variety of 

 sweet clover. This kii»d blooms from two to 

 four weeks earlier than the common or white 

 variety of sweet clover. It also g:rows much 

 shorter, only about two feet in higrht. It is as 

 much visited by the bees as the white, and usu- 

 ally comes into bloom ahead of while clover 

 and basswood. We offer the seed as a premium 



A QUARTER POUND FOR SENDING 

 ONE NEW SUBSCRIPTION. 



So loniyr as it lasts, we will mail a quarter 

 pound of the seed to a leg^ular paid-up subscri- 

 ber who sends us ONE NEW subscriber for the 

 American Bee Journal for 19TO, with $1.00. We 

 will also " throw in " the balance of 1S9'> to such 

 new subscriber. Surely, this is a great offer. 

 We have been trying- for years to secure this 

 seed, and finally succeeded in g-etting- it. It is 

 new seed, g-athered this season by an old per- 

 sonal friend of ours, so we know it is all rig-fat. 

 But we have only a small supply. When nearly 

 out we will mention it. 



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