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that my theory had no basis except a vivid imagination, This I could not truthfully 

 do, and I resented the demand as a piece of intolerance. 



I think Dr. Miller has never accepted Mr. Heddon's pollen theory. At any rate 

 there are many first-class bee-keepers who have not accepted it, but no one of them 

 has ever called on Mr. Heddon either to prove it or own that it never had any basis 

 except a vivid imagination. Why was I singled out as the victim of an intolerant 

 demand ? I don't know, and am at a loss to conceive. 



I have a high respect and warm love for Dr. Miller, but, like the rest of us, he 

 has faults and failings, of which I have been frank enough to remind him when T 

 thought it necessary. I do not care for a friend who will not tell me of my faults, 

 and I cannot be such a friend to any one. There is an old proverb that he or she is 

 your best friend who tells you of your faults, and the Book of Books declares : 

 " Faithful are the wounds of a friend, but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful." 



While on this point T will say that I think Dr. Miller has done me an injustice 

 by not recording his satisfaction among the " Stray Straws " in Gleanings. It was 

 a quotation from them in the Ameeican Bee Journal to which I replied. I did not 

 write to Gleanings because the Roots treated me with great injustice on the tobacco 

 question, and also because they rejected the last two articles I sent them. There is 

 a Mutual Admiration Society among bee-keepers ; I do not belong to it, and don't 

 want to. 



One word more. Mr. Gates assumes that all anger is wicked. I put against 

 that idea two passages of Scripture — Mark 3:3 : " And when he (Jesus Christ) had 

 looked round about on them with anger," etc. Eph. 4:26 : "Be ye angry and sin 

 not." There is an anger that has no element of sinfulness in it. It is a duty, under 

 certain circumstances, to be angry. When God asked Jonah, " Doest thou well to 

 be angry ?" the question implied that if there was just cause for anger, Jonah was not 

 sinning. Guelph, Ont. 



[We think the foregoing discussion has gone far enough, and further "war of 

 words " would be simply a waste of space. But as to there being a "Mutual 

 Admiration Society " existing among bee-keepers, we must confess we hadn't 

 thought of it at all, or heard of it before Mr. Clarke mentioned it. We hope it may 

 turn out to be only one of his many "opinions" — like the "sting-trowel theory," for 

 instance. — Editor.] 



Los Anples County Conyention. 



BY DR. G. A. MILLARD. 



Tlie Los Angeles County Bee-Keepers' 

 Association met in the Chamber of Com- 

 merce Rooms at Los Angeles, Calif., on 

 Aug. 6, 1894. The meeting was called 

 to order by Dr. G. A. Millard, and Mr. 

 liurgk was elected President pro ton in 

 the absence of the President, Prof. Cook. 



A NEW BEE-DISEASE. 



A communication was received from 

 J. A. Oderlin, of Santa Ana, inquiring 

 as to the cause of his bees dying. Ac- 

 cording to the description given, his 

 apiary seems to be infected with the 

 new disease, as yet unnamed. Mr. Heart, 

 inspector for this county, reports the 

 disease as resembling foul brood in ap- 

 pearance, but decidedly not foul brood ; 

 as being prevalent in the northern part 

 of the county, and as being in every 

 apiary in the county so far as he had 

 inspected. 



Mr. Jas. Janes stated that a year since 

 he had found the same in his apiary, 

 and treated it by removing old, infected 

 brood, and replacing it with new brood 

 from healthy colonies, and it has not re- 

 appeared. 



An article was read giving starvation 

 as the cause, but this seems to be a mis- 



