. The Bee-keepers' review. Bee culture. Home of A. I. Root. apiary. The possession of this apiary plays No new style of hiye, frame, While on my way home from the Philadelphia convention, I stopped at Medina, Ohio, and vis- ited the establishment of the A. I. Root Co.; and here are some comments \ipon what I saw ;— First, there is the apiary, with its vine-covered house-apiary, evergreen ht-ilge, and hives shaded by grapevines. I took a view of it with my cam- era, from the roof of the factory, and show the picture upon the opposite page. In the back- ground can be seen the home of A. I. Root
. The Bee-keepers' review. Bee culture. Home of A. I. Root. apiary. The possession of this apiary plays No new style of hiye, frame, While on my way home from the Philadelphia convention, I stopped at Medina, Ohio, and vis- ited the establishment of the A. I. Root Co.; and here are some comments \ipon what I saw ;— First, there is the apiary, with its vine-covered house-apiary, evergreen ht-ilge, and hives shaded by grapevines. I took a view of it with my cam- era, from the roof of the factory, and show the picture upon the opposite page. In the back- ground can be seen the home of A. I. Root and of his son-in-law, Mr. Hovden. This apiary was started at the same time that the manufacture of l>ee-keeping supplies was beg^un, and both have grown hand in hand. One man, Mr. Wardell. is now kept constantly busy in caring for the no small part in the success of the A. I. Root Co. No new style of hiye, frame, super, section, or foundation is adopted blindly, but is first put into actual practice in the apiary. Even foul brood was given a trial, and finally eliminated. Of course it was not introduced intentionally, but the pub- lished experience with it in this apiary has been of great value to the bee-keeping fraternity. A visit to the press-room, the wax-room, the section-department, etc., impressed me with the en- terprising spirit that seems to per\'ade the whole establishment. In a store-room I was shown the dies and other remains of the Weed-experimenting with full-depth cells. While this experiment was a failure, some others of Mr. Weed's were not. For instance, in the a cake of wax can be placed upon one end of a machine, and great rolls of sheet d wax taken from the other end. One of these rolls of sheeted wax, rolled up like a roll of ribbon such as we find in a store, can be placed in the end of another machine, and finished foundation, all trimmed, papered, and piled up tnie and square, ready for boxing, can be taken from the other end. These mach
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