BEE CiFlTURE 



Published by The A. I. Root Company, Medina. Ohio 



E. R. Root, Editor A. L. Boyden, Advertising Mgr 



H. H. Root, Asst. Ed. J. T. Calvert, Business Mer 



A. I. Root, Editor of Home Department 



Vol. XXXV. 



JUNE 1, 1907. 



No. 11, 



A. A. AsiiLKY, p. G98, tells word for word 

 how I worked the Alexander we;ik-colouy 

 plan this spring except some slight ditTer- 

 ence in length of time. It was an entire suc- 

 cess. 



Feeling good over the Illinois local-option 

 law passed May 8. James K. Shields, of the 

 Illinois Anti-saloon l.eague, who led the tight 

 for local option, said: "It is a great victory. 

 When the Berry bill is placed on the statute- 

 books of Illinois, we shall have secured, aft- 

 er six years' tight, more local option than 

 Ohio has gotten in fourteen years of contin- 

 ued effort 



In spite of the peculiar way in which The 

 Far-Western Bee Keeper locates the hyphen 

 in its name, that occidental youngster starts 

 out in such a wide-awake manner that one 

 can't help thinking that, if it doesn't live, it 

 ought to. Here's success to it at a venture. 

 [We join in your good wishes. But Stenog 

 says that hyphen is all right where it is, but 

 another one is needed in "Bee-keeper." — 

 Ed.] 



Stenog, you say French spelling is more 

 difficult than English, p. G8(). I don't believe 

 it. Even if it is, does that alter the fact that 

 English will more quickly become the world's 

 language if its horril)le spelling is reformed? 

 [What I meant to show, doctor, was that ex- 

 ceedingly irregular spelling would not pre- 

 vent a language from being the court lan- 

 guage of the nations of the earth, as the French 

 language shows The marvelous spread of 

 English in the last tifty years is due to its 

 simplicity as a language and the colonizing 

 spirit of England and the United States.— 

 Stenog.] 



Herr a. Straeuli, editor of Europ(xische 

 Bieneuzueht, the German apostle of Ameri- 

 can methods, is enthusiastic over what he 

 calls the Scherzinger plan for preventing in- 

 crease. When a colony swarms, the swarm 

 is hived in a lower story over which an ex- 

 cluder is placed, and over this the old hive 

 with its brood, all queen-cells being removed. 

 That's the end of all swarming, and the w hole 

 force is kept intact. It will be seen ihat it is 

 much the same as the Demaree plan, only 

 Herr Straeuli waits till after the colony has 

 actually swarmed. Where one is on hand to 

 hive swarms, what better way could there 

 be for extracted honey? 



Glad to answer your question, p. G80, 

 Mr. Editor. The phrase "dual plan" or 

 "dual-queen system" has so far been used to 

 mean the plan of having two queens in a fer- 

 tilizing-hive— one a virgm in a cage awaiting 

 the removal of the free qvieen. This plan is 

 so important, and likely to be mentioned so 

 often, that it is better to let the word "dual " 

 designate it instead of the 23 words I have 

 used in describing it. Then in any other 

 case of two queens in a hive, as mother or 

 daughter, say "two queens in a hive,'' or use 

 some other wording; but don't use "dual" 

 for any but the one specific thing. [It will 

 be difficult, doctor, to make our language al- 

 ways exact. If some one else has continu- 

 ously used the phrase "dual-ijueen system," 

 referring to something different from that to 

 which you refer, yon will have a hard job in 

 changing him over; and some ot them get 

 mad when we take liberty with their manu- 

 script, averring that they know what they 

 are talking about. We do not see but we 

 shall have to continue to use a good deal of 

 circumlocution as heretofore. — Ed.] 



C. S. I.OKD has sent me some spacing-nails 

 that are probably ahead of any thing else in 

 this country — merely a wire nail with a head 

 i inch deep, sugar-loaf shape, so that if an 

 unc^apping-knife should strike it the blade 

 woukl slide off. For any other than extract- 

 ing-frames a head with perpendicular sides 

 would be l)etter. Even for extracting-frames 

 this head would be all right with perpendic- 



