Vol. XIII, 



FEB. 15, 1885. 



No. i. 



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HEDDON'S LETTER. 

 Moral Patents. 



DON S HIVE, HONEY-B(JAKI), !I()N KV ri.ANTS, &C. 



N first page of your last issue I find a letter 

 from brother Hatch to brother Hutchinson, 

 from which I gather the idea that brother 

 Hatch thinks that our government sells a mo- 

 nopoly to a person when said person takes 

 out a patent. I think he is in error. What we pay 

 the office is record lees, and the monopoly is only a 

 monopoly of the inventor's own discoveries; a mo- 

 nopoly of what he has produced by the labor of his 

 own brain and hands; a monopoly of what did not 

 exist before his efforts brought it into being. The 

 office gives him the 17 years' exclusive right, charg- 

 ing only fees to support the recording and other 

 office labor. 



WIDTH AND SIZE OF ONE-POUND SECTIONS. 



Brother Hatch also says, that in my "circular, 

 page 20," I claim that the 4'.ix4'i.\7 to-thefoot (or 

 Pi scant) sections do not average one pound. He 

 does not say whether he means my 1883 or 1885 cir- 

 cular. I can't find a word about it on page ~0 of 

 either circular. Neither can I find on any other 

 page where I' call that section a scant one-pound 

 section, except when used with separators. Well, 

 be that as it may, I have the fresh fact to state, that 

 the past year we learned how to get this section so 

 plumply filled, attached to the wood all arnumi, that 

 the part of our ci-op stored between separators, in 

 this size section, averaged almost or quite exactly 

 one pound per section, gross weight; that is, sec- 

 tion and all. We can also average one pound with 

 I'i-inch wide, •l'.i.\4'i, when used without scparU' 



tors, if I recollect correctly. Regarding the system 

 ' of management, I will give that at n future time. 



PUICE OK CASE.S. 



! Brother Hatch says he could also furnish niycases 

 ! at half my price, and make money. Has he seen 

 I my 1885 circular, where, on page 4, I quote these 

 ' cases, in quantities of 2B or over, at 16c each? This 

 ! includes handles and the five tin strips. I should 

 i like to buy of him at He each. No doubt he thinks 

 he tells the truth. Does not much depend upon the 

 I quality of the material givenV But suppose, for ar- 

 gument's sake, he could. Suppose he has the ad- 

 ! vantage of very cheap lumber and cheap power, 

 j and cheaper laborers. Must I, on that account, go 

 I entirely without any remuneration for my inven- 

 j tion and introduction of this case? 1 infer that 

 brother Hatch is a "Christian," and I think he 

 should have seen these moral points sooner. 

 mooke's hack. 

 This, I think, is properly named. I do not see 

 that it is like, or fills the place of my case. The tin 

 strips at the bottom are not original with me. They 

 are very old; so neither are the wood partitions. I 

 claim them only in combination with a case that is 

 to need no outside covering; that uses open-top 

 sections; is bee-space taller than said sections, and 

 adapted to the tiering-up plan (a splendid plan of 

 manipulation), and taking the cover of the hive in 

 the same manner that the brood-chamber does, and 

 so arranged at the bottom as to be adjustable to the 

 ordinary hive with bee-space above the frames, or 

 1 my honey-board with bcespace in its upper side. 

 Is brother Moore's like that? I think not. If so. It 

 could not be made of material 2?i inches wide, un- 

 less 2' i-inch sections were used. I think that the 

 1 tlifffrence in the popular growth between the rack 



