THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



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whiat I am experimenting upon. Doctors 

 disagree, and I feel that I must decide for 

 myself. James Heddon. 



ibowagiac, Mich., June 11, 1877. 



For the American Bee Journal. 



Hardin Haines Ventilated. 



"1 commenced the season with 4 colonies, 

 increased to 18, and doubled back to 12, 

 Italianized 4, 6 are hybrids, 3 are black." — 

 Oleanings for Feb., p. 47. 



"I am going to raise queens the coming 

 season witii 10 or 15 of my line liome-bred 

 queens of Staples and Andrews, also from 

 Oatman."— Letter to Ch. Dadant, Dec. 2.5, 

 1876. 



"1 have SO colonies, and nearly all pure 

 Italians."— Gico?ih((7s for Feb., p. 54. 



"I am going into tiie bee business pretty 

 soon this season, with 65 colonies." — Letter 

 to Ch. Dadant, Jan. IG, 1877. 



" 1 had in the fall of 1875, 26 colonies; in 

 spring of 1876, 19; fall of 1876, 81; spring of 

 1877, 76; Italians, 55; liybrids, 20."— A. B. J. 

 for June, p. 196. 



"My bees are not willing enough to work 

 in boxes to please nmJ'— Oleanings for 

 Feb., p. 47. 



"Spring, 1876, 19 colonies; box honey, 

 2,456 lbs.; extracted, 40 lbs. (131 lbs. of box 

 honey and 3 swarms to the colony)."— A. B. 

 J. for June, p. 196. 



"I have got word from Italy. I will get 

 my queens early in the season. I have only 

 2 imported stocks from Gentizen. That I 

 forgot to tell you about."— Letter to Ch, 

 Dadant, Feb. 15, 1877. 



"I have sent a lot of money to Italy for 

 queens. I got word from Italy that 1 will 

 get mj' queens very early. Think we can 

 ship queens with safety the last of March, 

 April 15th, or sooner."— Letter to Ch. Da- 

 dant, Feb. 21, 1877. 



"I am no more a swindler than you are. 

 I have a great many fine imported queens 

 that are nicer than yours." — Letter to Ch. 

 Dadant, April 25, 1877. 



"Ch. Dadant is not the man that I thought 

 him to be."— Letter to A. I. Boot, May 1, 

 1877. 



Hardin Haines has advertised imported 

 queens direct from Cyprus Island anil from 

 Italy. He boasts of having sent a lot of 

 money to Italy in Dec; in Feb. he boasts 

 of having received word from Italy that his 

 queens will arrive soon. Let him show this 

 letter or one from Cyprus Island, witli 

 stamped envelope, and I will give him ten 

 colonies of bees for nothing.— Extract from 

 a letter from Ch. Dadant to A. I. Boot, May 

 8, 1877, sent by my request, by Mr. Boot to 

 Hardin Haines, who has not yet answered 

 it— June 10, 1877. 



"I have heard enough of your nonsense," 

 — Martin Haines, father of Hardin Haines. 

 Extract from a lettei' to Ch. Dadant, May 5, 

 1877. 



"If your son can show one letter either 

 from Cyprus Island, or from Italy, with 

 stamped envelope, I will give him ten 

 colonies with imported queens. So you see 

 that my ' nonsense' begins to have some 

 sense."— Extract from a registered letter 

 sent by Ch. Dadant to Martin Haines, May 

 11,1877. Not answered. 



In May, Mr. Staples, of Columbia, Tenn., 

 received a queen from Hardin Haines, pre- 

 tended to have been imported direct from 



Cyprus Island. Mr. Staples refuses to send 

 the price (6 tested Italian queens) till Har- 

 din Haines can prove that the queen was 

 imported, which he is unable to do. 



Mr. W. J. Andrews, of Columbia, Tenn., 

 president of the American Society of Bee- 

 Keepers, has offtTi'd $5(1 to Hardin Haines 

 for a queen imiudtcd direct from Cyprus, 

 on the condition that Hardin Haines would 

 prove positively that .the queen was a 

 genuine Cyprian queeii. Hardin Haines 

 replied that he did not know that they were 

 so high-priced. 



No doubt he would have sent the queen, 

 but the difficulty was to prove the importa- 

 tion. 



I could cite more extracts of contradictory 

 letters and reports, but the foregoing will 

 suffice to show how reliable the young maa 

 is. Ch. Dadant. 



Hamilton, 111., June 10, 1877. 



For the American Bee Journal. 



Scraps from Illinois. 



I can almost safely be put down for 

 "blasted hopes." Last fall I had 22 stocks 

 of bees, all pure Italians, in splendid con- 

 dition, strong in bees and honey. Aug. 31, 

 a big wind storm passed over our section of 

 country, blowing off hundreds of bushels of 

 apples. As a consequence the cider mills 

 were set going, and two of them were run- 

 ning constantly, within a fourth of a mile of 

 us, till long after cold weather began. The 

 bees went to the mills by the thousands, 

 there being little or no fall forage. This 

 spring we see the result, in an almost total 

 sweep of bees from our " cidered " district, 

 there being but a small per cent. left. We 

 came out with the least loss of any one, and 

 lost 13 out of our 22, the remaining 9 being 

 weak, some of them being nothing but 

 nuclei. A great many others losing all 

 they had, a few saving 3 or 3. Outside of 

 the cider district, bees wintered well. 



I am now at Benton's Bay, Mississippi 

 Biver, where 1 am handling bees for Mrs. 

 Levi Hoi lings worth, and have also brought 

 my own stocks down here. This is a good 

 section for bees. They have begun to 

 swarm but little as yet, but we expect live- 

 ly times within a few days, 



I received one of the Quinby bellows 

 smokers of Mr, King's make; it "is a much 

 better article than I got from L, C. Boot 

 last year. Why King's smoker is well and 

 strongly constructed, not quite so fine a 

 finish as the Boot-Quinby smoker, but I am 

 putting it to a very severe test, a daily use 

 on over 125 stands of bees, and I will war- 

 rant it to last with any of them. The 

 leather is a good, strong article, while that 

 on the Boot smoker of last year was a 

 flmsey article (it is much better this year), 

 and would not last a month. 



All the fault 1 found with my King 

 smoker is, I had to i)ut in a new tin valve — 

 but a few minutes work — otherwise it is a 

 No, 1 article. Will M, Kellogg, 



Oquawka, 111. 



[In reference to the Quinby smoker made 

 by friend King, it is but just to remark that 

 he assures us that the one sent to this office 

 was selected from the "culled" and dis- 

 carded ones of a large lot that he had made. 

 We are glad friend Kellogg has found the 



