April 2, 1903. 



THE AMERiCAN BEE JOURNAL. 



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course. I am compelled to tell tlicm Su-and-So 

 o£ their place bought my entire crop, and, no 

 doubt, can supply them, but will be pleased 

 to correspond for my crop next year. This 

 makes competition and higher prices, and that 

 is my reward. 



Now. it the dealer was to erase my name 

 and substitute his own he would be robbing 

 me of my just dues, and if that is not illegal 

 it ought to be punishable. But there is an 

 uhwritten law governing these things. I am 

 not in the mood, neither do I have the incli- 

 nation, to make a reputation for Mr. A's or 

 Mr. Bs honey ; neither do I care to build up 

 the reputation of all the honey produced in 

 Idaho by painstaking care. And. there is a 

 natural law of compensation which rewards 

 «ach individual for their greater efforts. Now, 

 Mr. York, you would not think of erasing the 

 name from a package of D. M. Ferry's seeds 

 and substituting your own, and selling it as 

 such.' If you erase the name from the honey 

 you certainly do a very unjust thing. Come, 

 now. Mr. York, own up that you are beaten ; 

 there's two to one, and numlwrs count. 



Alma Olson. 



Fremont Co., Idaho, Feb. 21. 



[Were we to say more on this subject it 

 would only be to repeat what we have said 

 many times. We never say on our labels 

 that !f< are the producer's of the honey we sell. 

 We have spent hundreds of dollars in creat- 

 ing a demand for " Y'ork's Honey,'' and not 

 for Olson's or that produced by .Jones. Their 

 whole crops would be but as a " drop in the 

 bucket " compared to what we sell during a 

 season. We stand back of all the honey that 

 goes out as " York's Hon'ey," and know noth- 

 ing of Olson's, or Nelson's, or Miller's honey, 

 and care nothing about their honey. We are 

 not working to sell their honey, unless we 

 buy it, when it becomes "Y'ork's Honey," 

 like any other good honey we buy. After it 

 passes out of their hands they have nothing 

 further to do with it, having received their 

 pay for it. 



When you sell your wheat or oats to a 

 dealer do you insist on having your name on 

 the bags holding the wheat or oats- Well, 

 hardly 1 — Editor.] 



That Missing Link in Queen-Rear- 

 ing. 



With the editor's permission, I will give my 

 notion on the so-called umbilicus, "missing 

 link '' or " line,"' as you please. 



Where does it begin and end : What is its 

 object? Dr. Gallup says, page 454, " attached 

 to the vulva." He, being a doctor, is in a 

 good position to know what he writes al)out. 

 When I read this it set me to thinking. 

 ■What a place for the beginning of an umbili- 

 cal cord, anyhow ! Do all queens have them ; 

 How about the workers and poor drones* 

 Would '• umbilical queens " be on the mar- 

 ket, and what would be the price of the "ex- 

 tra-select-tested '" from the " prize long-um- 

 bilicus queen! " These and many more (lues- 

 tions came to my mind as I lay awake nights. 



After reading the text-books and papers I 

 resolved to let my beec settle the matter, and 

 set some nuclei going for close observation. 

 Let me say here that my library has 34 vol- 

 umes I colonies) of 20 pages each, and for 

 mauy years they have been my best books. 

 Meanwhile Mr. Doolittle, page .%iS', took up 

 the "line'' and tightened the kinks by cor- 

 roborating Dr. Gallup's article. He says: 

 According to my old teacher, the missing 

 •'link," that which will produce the best 

 queens — is supplied in nearly every instance 

 when using the plan of queen-rearing as given 

 in " Scientific Queen-Reariu... ' But Mr. 

 Doolittle has given us the ending of the 

 " line'" as being "all under and through the 

 royal jelly in every conceivaMe direction." 

 while his old teacher says: "T'.ose roots and 

 tendrils do not go wandering aruuud through 

 the mass of royal jelly."' Wliich is right, 

 teacher or pupil; According t'j the former, 

 the object of the cord is "to suck up sub- 

 stance from the jelly and ci->'ivey it to the 



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