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case, after I brought them out, aud that he 

 didn't like them aud abandoned them. 

 Something must be wrong with Bro. Taylor, 

 for out of 1,000 others who have adopted 

 them, I believe not ten have abandoned 

 them. 



Then Bro. Taylor mentions the sectional 

 brood-chamber, the essential feature of my 

 patent, and states that he is still using it 

 and preferring it. He also claims to have 

 used such brood-chambers previous to mv 

 invention, but does not chiim to have shown 

 them to any one until several year.^ after my 

 patent was issued. His claim is not valid, in 

 law, and if it were, it would and will cost 

 him from *3,000 to ij^f^OOO to substantiate it. 

 You will see at once that I cannot have my 

 property seized by any person who may 

 simply assert that he has used certain things. 

 Such persons must 1^vs■i prove in U. S. court, 

 that it is not my property, before their 

 illegal action becomes a good example to 

 others. 



Mr. Taylor says he exhibited a sectional 

 hive in a bee convention at Keokuk, in 1889. 

 This was four years after the issuance of my 

 patent, and nearly six years after the inven- 

 tion. While they laughed at Mr. Taylor's 

 hive, as he says, the following is what they 

 said about mine : 



" Heddon kept it locked up in his brain a 

 year longer." — Peof. Cook. 



" Your hive is new aud original." — Hutch- 

 inson. 



" Your shallow brood cases, do the busi- 

 ness and the reason I didn't discover it was 

 because I didn't know enough." — John H. 

 Martin. "Rambler. " 



"Heddon's hive is original and unique." 

 — Rev. W. F. Clakke. 



" Yours of Ist at hand. Whatever may be 

 the course of some, I think the great mass 

 of bee-keepers feel bound to fully respect 

 your rights. After Prof. Cook's article in 

 Gleanings, I wrote, taking the ground that I 

 would just as soon think of using Heddon's 

 horse or pocket-book without permission as 

 his hive." — C. C. Millek. 



There are about 200 more like the above ; 

 when do you want them. Mr. Editor ? 



The relation between Mr. Taylor and my- 

 self is as follows : On September 29th, 1885, 

 I became the author and owner of a patent 

 on a hive, the leading, special, new function 

 Of which was born of a divisable or multiple 

 brood-chamber, which caused bee-keepers 

 to exclaim, " eureka : a new era of bee-keep- 



ing has dawned." If such a brood chamber 

 is valuable, I have benefitted bee-keepers, 

 and if Mr. Taylor ever invented such a brood 

 chamber, he benefitted no one but himself. 

 I have a patent that speaks for itself. Mr. 

 Taylor has a story which will cost from 

 $3,000 to $.5,000 to corroborate. Bee-keep- 

 ers are saying, " B. Taylor is claiming Hed- 

 don's hive." Has any one heard any one 

 say that " Heddon is claiming B. Taylor's 

 hive ?" I can conceive of no harm Mr. Tay- 

 lor has done, nor that others have done by 

 similar stories, unless it might be to lead 

 some bee-keeper to expose himself to prose- 

 cution in United State court. 



I am at a loss to know from what author- 

 ity Mr. B. Taylor assumes to caution bee- 

 keepers against spending money for outer 

 cases for spring protection ? I remember 

 when I argued this question with yourself, 

 Mr. editor, and I also remember that, both 

 in argument and in fact, I found that I was 

 wrong, and so admitted, and at the same 

 time I was on the side of the question B. 

 Taylor now takes. I now know that B. Tay- 

 lor is also wrong. There is nothing that 

 pays so well as an outer packing case in 

 spring, and especially when said case is 

 painted a dark color and the packing within 

 is something solid like sawdust, and the 

 space between hive and case is not too great, 



I am in exact accord with Mr. Taylor's 

 last paragraph concerning the tendency of 

 our government. 



DowAGiAO, Mich. March 9, 1895. 



Bee Paralysis the Result of In - Breeding 

 Aided by Climatic Conditions. 



B. F. AVEBILL. 



HAVING noticed in the bee literature of 

 the past few years no precise diagnosis 

 of bee paralysis, I undertake to present to the 

 public my views resulting from observations 

 of twenty years or more while located in 

 various and widely separated sections of the 

 country. 



It is only a few years since this disease 

 made sufficient trouble to cause anxiety to 

 the apiarist, yet, it is already, in many sec- 

 tions, the source of an alarming disaster. 



Generally speaking the black bee is ex- 

 empt from the malady, or, much less liable 

 than the Italians to suffer extremely and 

 epidemically the full virulence of its infec- 

 tions. My attention was first given to bee 



