Dec. 22, 1904. 



THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



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Baby Nuclei— An Explanation. 



Once or twice I have seen references 

 in the American Bee Journal regard- 

 ing- the giving of Mr. Pharr his due, 

 or not giving him his due, for the in- 

 vention of the baby nuclei for mating 

 queens. As my name has been men- 

 tioned in the matter, please allow me a 

 little space for an explanation. 



Two years ago Mr. C. B. Bankston, 

 who, I believe, was in partnership with 

 Mr. Pharr, wrote me an article describ- 

 ing this plan of getting queens mated. 

 Mr. Bankston's penmanship and com- 

 position were none of the best, and I 

 may have been a little thick-headed, 

 but be that as it may, I failed to catch 

 the spirit of the invention. I could 

 not see where the advantages came in. 

 I wrote to Mr. Bankston about this — 

 that I could not "see the point". He 

 referred me to Mr. W. H. Laws, saying 

 that Mr. L,aws had been using the plan 

 for a year, and could tell me all about 

 it. I wrote Mr. Laws, and he replied 

 that he had used it, but he preferred to 

 use it another year before describing 

 it. In the meantime, Mr. Bankston 

 sent an article to the American Bee- 



Keeper, in which he described the 

 plan. That paper published it, and 

 still I could not " catch on " to its ad- 

 vantages. A year ago Mr. Laws sent 

 me one of the nuclei, and a complete 

 description of the whole plan, and I 

 then understood it clearly, and imme- 

 diately saw its great value. It was 

 published in the Review with an illus- 

 tration. In this article Mr. Laws said 

 it was the first time that the plan had 

 been published, except in an article 

 that had appeared a year previous in 

 the American Bee-Keeper. 



When the article appeared in the Re- 

 view, Mr. Bankston wrote me that he 

 thought he had not been fairly treated ; 

 that he had sent me an article a year 

 before and I had not published it, and 

 now I had published one from Mr. 

 Laws, in which he had been given the 

 whole credit. I wrote and reminded 

 him how he had referred rue to Mr. 

 Laws, and told him that if he thought 

 he had not been fairly treated, I should 

 be only too glad to make it right in the 

 Review. I have never heard from him 

 since. 



In a few weeks Mr. Pharr wrote and 

 made almost the same complaint that 



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