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Published by The A. I^Root Company, Hedlaa, Ohio 



E. R. Root, Editor A. L. Boyden, Advertising Mg:r, 



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



A. I. Root, Editor of Home Department 



Vol. XXXV. 



OCTOBER 1, 1907. 



No. 19 



On behalf of honey-producers in general, 

 I arise to move a vote of thanks to Glean- 

 ings and Messrs. Ponder and Peirce for do- 

 ing their part toward getting prices out of 

 the ditch. 



You ADVISE my encouraging farmers near 

 me to sow buciiwheat, Mr Editor, p. 1188. 

 Rather nut. Just now. Sept. 13, I'm having 

 a fine flow of very light h(mey, and i should 

 not like buckwheat mixed with it. 



Rkplying to a correspondent, I don't use 

 shipping-crates. If I shipped in smaller 

 quantities I would; but 1 wouldn't make the 

 crates; I'd buy them. No, the Root Co. does 

 not list them. 1 don't know why, but they 

 make them. 



A Qi'EEN which has heen regularly occupy- 

 ing Seven frames will have contained in them 

 the proportion of abt)Ut one frame of eggs, 

 two of unsealed brood, and four of sealed 

 brood. [This is about the proportion as we 

 find it. — Kd ] 



Bkg PAI.DOV, Mr. Editor, I didn't s-iy 

 dronti-celis were invai'iably nan owed iit the 

 mouih before worker eggs were laiil in them. 

 I only said 1 ha(l never st^en ihem otherwise, 

 and rai.-*ed the question whether others had. 

 Have you? Page 1189. 



Friend A. I. Root, you ask. p. 1093. that 

 some one with "experience in getting rid of 

 bees where there was no sale for them " w(»uld 

 tell how to get the honey and get rid of the 

 bees. I'm afraid very few have had such ex 

 perience; and, although I don't come in the 

 prescribed class, I would suggest doubling 

 up in fall or spring. That will redu(^e the 

 number of colonies, and perhaps secure more 

 surplus than "taking up" in the fall. 



The Schweiz.Bztg., p. 269, reproduces from 

 Gleanings the cut of the extractor run by 

 power by E. D. Townsend, and also a picture 

 of one that has been run five years by a 

 Swiss bee-keeper, Herr Bracher. The multi- 

 tude of mountain streams in Switzerland 

 favors cheap water-power, as also electricity. 

 [Where water under pressure is available it 

 affords the nicest power. — Ed.] 



DooLiTTLE is quoted in Schweiz. Bztg., p. 

 2'. 5, as saying that he has tried all the plans 

 for prevention of swarming, and concludes 

 that swarming is natural, and so he will 

 make no further effort to prevent it. That 

 must be ancient history. Nowadays I think 

 Di^olittle is in the band-wagon with the rest 

 of us. [You believe, in other words, that 

 Doolittle now believes that swarming can l>e 

 kept un<ier control. Indeed he does; for he 

 has written a treatise on that subject. — Ed.] 



An estkemed correspondent wants a Straw 

 about keeping a few hundretl sections. Keep 

 them where salt will keep dry — any dry 

 warm place, the warmer the better. High 

 up in a kitchen's a good place. If afraid of 

 worms, pile them in stipers. an empty super 

 on top. in that a saucer in which you pour 

 two or three tablespoonfuls of bisulphide of 

 carbon, and <-over up withcjut breathing it. 

 Look out tor fire highly explosive. [Good 

 advice, every word of it. — Ed.] 



Wm. M^'^.voYsays, C(madi(in B(^e Journal, 

 p 24.>. that it is more impoi taut that every 

 bee-keeper should know the dark stain-marks 

 of foul lirood on the lower side of the cells, 

 where it is dried down in dark scales, than 

 that he should be familiar with the strinsjy 

 character of the brood. In treating diseased 

 colonics he never starves them —always f« eds 

 well. [Mi'Evoy is pretty nearly right. It is 

 imp >rtant to kn >w whether an old comb is 

 disease bearing, and therefore unfit to go 

 back into a hive.— Eu.] 



This year I killed a few queens for no 

 other le.ison than that they were born in 

 1904 and so had alrea<ly past through three 

 winters I never did a thing of the kind be- 

 fore, and I'm not so dead sure of the wisdom 



