Dec. 21, 1899. 



AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL 



611 



Root's Golumn 



Reading' for 

 1900. 



This is the lime 

 'f year when bee- 

 keepers select 

 I heir reading- for 

 another vear. The 

 ABC of' Bee-CuN 

 ture will furnish 

 > ou profitable and 

 interesting' read- 

 11] K' for a long- time. 

 It tells all about 

 the raanag-ement 

 ' 'f the apiary thru- 

 lut the j'ear, the 

 methods pursued 

 i)y leading- bee- 

 keepers, and the 

 lifferent hives in 

 use. Better send 

 lor the book at 

 Dnce. If vou wish, 

 we will send you sample pa^es. 



Sold by all dealers in bee-keepers' supplies, or 

 sent by the publishers for $l.:;o, postpaid. We 

 will furnish you Gleaniugrs iu Bee-Culture one 

 year with the book for Si. 75, postpaid. 



By the way, Gleaniug-s in Bee-Culture has 050 

 pag-es in a year, and has averaged this for the 

 past 10 years, yet the price is onlv SI. 00 a vear. 

 If you have not seen a copv latelv', send for our 

 December 15th issue which contains the PRIZE 

 PICTURES, as well as the photographs of Edi- 

 tors York and Hutchinson. This contains our 

 annual index which will show vou the scope of 

 Gleanings articles during- the year. It also con- 

 tains the index of contributors and the illustra- 

 tions of the year. That the index might not 

 crowd our reading--matter we g-ive lt> pagres 

 extra. In this issue we give an illustration and 

 description of the DANZENBAKER HIVE 

 for 1900. 



If you want a copy of this issue you must ask 

 for it at once, as we have only a few to spare. 



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THE A. L ROOT CO, 



MEDINA, OHIO. 



Lapsley — the bees dug under and liberated 

 the queen before they were ready to accept 

 her. The trouble was just the one com- 

 plained of by Mr. Lapsley, sufliciently ex- 

 plicit instructions had not been given, Jlr. 

 Hutchinson never thinking that any one 

 would cage the queen against a new comb 

 of liimt'ij. He says: "The comb selected 

 should be old, tough brood-comb, and filled 

 with just-hatching brood instead of sealed 

 honey. If a few of the cells contain un- 

 sealed honey, no harm is done — in fact, it 

 seems to me better." And the bee-keeper 

 must not stir things up by looking in a day 

 or two to see if the queen is " all right." 



tiniiiiltling; at Low Honey- 

 Prices seems to he as common in Austra- 

 lia as in this country. A writer in the 

 Australian Bee-Bulletin says: 



"I can't for the life of me see how prices 

 are going to rise without one-half of the 

 bee-keepers go out of the business. The 

 best thing in connection with the honey- 

 business is the supply-trade, viz., hives and 

 fixings, and queen-rearing. Goodness 

 knows, hives and fixings are cheap enough, 

 but even at the low price they are at it 

 scarcely pays to buy them. I don't know 

 any business more unsatisfactory to dis- 

 pose of than bees and hives. One simply 

 cannot sell a well-appointed apiary at any 

 price.'' 



I»o Poi-lei- Escapes Plaice Kees 

 ■tile Cappings ? — Editor Hutchinson, 

 in the Bee-Keepers' Review, defends them 

 against the accusations of F. Greiner. Mr. 

 Greiner is right in saying bees will bite the 

 cappings if much smoke is used or if they 

 are greatly alarmed. But Mr. Hutchinson 

 thinks there is no need of that with the es- 

 capes. After the flow is over, he chooses 

 the middle of a warm afternoon to put the 

 escapes in place, doing the work gently, 

 and has no trouble. It is just possible that 

 the two gentleman may find a difference on 

 account of difference in bees. The blacks 

 are more easily frightened so as to gnaw 

 cappings than are Italians. 



Gentle Itees Xliat Ai-e Hus- 

 tlers.— The editor of Gleanings in Bee- 

 Culture intimated that "cross and snappy" 

 bees were likely to be the kind to roll in 

 the honey. Whereupon D. B. Lynch re- 

 ports a colony of hustlers that are remark- 

 able for their gentle disposition. He says: 



"No one has ever been stung by her bees, 

 and the hive has been opened repeatedly in 

 wind (do you know what Dakota wind is ?) 

 without smoke or veil. I send you a photo 

 of my little daughter, two years and nine 

 months old, with a frame of them. Notice 

 the bee on her forehead. She knows they 

 will not hurt her. She has often been 

 stung, but not by that colony; and if any 

 one has 'cross and snappy' bees that can 

 beat them hustling, please quote prices. I 

 am open to conviction." 



'I'lie ^'e« York Honey iUarket. 



—Mr. Segelkeu says in the Bee-Keepers' Re- 

 view and Gleanings in Bee-Culture that he 

 is quoted as saying that the New York 

 market finds no trouble in disposing of 00.- 

 000.000 pounds of honey annually. While 

 he admits that New York is the great honey 

 market of the country, yet he says no such 

 amount could be handled iu any one year — 

 not by one firm nor by half a dozen. He 

 says he may have said that G.OOO.UOO pounds 

 was the amount, and this would come 

 nearer to the actual amount sold; but this 

 would include only all domestic honey, not 

 counting the large consignments of foreign 

 honey that come thru that port. All told, 

 he estimates that the New York market 

 handles from 7.000,000 to 8.000,000 pounds 

 of honey annually.— Gleanings in Bee-Cul- 

 ture. 



Feeding- (Substitutes for Pollen. 



— In most places bees can get pollen from 

 natural sources in spring; but sometimes, 

 and in some places, it is a scarce article, 

 and then, according to G. M. Doolittle, the 



Yellow Sweet Clover Seed 



WE HAVE IT AT LAST \ 

 We have finally succeeded in g-etting- a small 

 quantity of the seed of the yellow" variety of 

 sweet clover. This kind blooms from two to 

 four weeks earlier than the common or white 

 variety of sweet clover. It also grows much 

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

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

 ally comes into bloom ahead of white clover 

 and basswood. We offer the seed as a premium 



A QUARTER POUND FOR SENDING 

 ONE NEW SUBSCRIPTION. 



So longr as it lasts, we will mail a quarter 

 pou,nd of the seed to a leg-ular paid-up subscri- 

 ber who sends us ONE NEW subscriber for the 

 American Bee Journal for 190<\ with SI. 00. We 

 will also *' throw in " the balance of 1899 to such 

 new subscriber. Surely, this is a great offer. 

 We have been trying for years to secure this 

 seed, and finally succeeded in getting- it. It is 

 new seed, gathered this season by an old per- 

 sonal friend of ours, so we know it is all right. 

 But we have only a small supply. When nearly 

 out we will mention it. 



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