think they will answer the purpose 

 fully, and possess the merit of being 

 cheap. Hoge's carrier is quite expen- 

 sive. We are of the opinion, friend 

 Muth, that your carrier would answer 

 the purpose still better, if constructed 

 to carry 16, instead of 32 sections. It 

 is true, that it would add somewhat 

 more to the expense of getting it up, 

 but we think this would be more than 

 counterbalanced in their being so much 

 lighter, thereby insuring more safe 

 handling.— w. J. A.] 



®0iTc$pon(lcucc\ 



For the American Bee Journal. 



Trouble. 



Xovlce, under tlie above lieading in Glean- 

 ings, page 61, February number, says tliat 

 " two of our bee family" (Doolittle and Bet- 

 singer) " have got into a quarrel." We wish 

 to say that tins is not true, as Betsinger and 

 Doolittle have never quarreled. 



There is a difference of opinion between 

 B. and myself in regard to the medal, to be 

 sure; yet, this does not necessitate a quarrel, 

 by any means! We have, however, two 

 very unkind and unchristian letters in our 

 possession from Novice, in which lie accuses 

 us of being a hypocrite, and trying to injure 

 our friend Betsinger. 



Novice also tells us in the same article, 

 that "a number of our bee-keepers put in 

 $7.00 each, and then one draws the whole, or 

 at least S50.00of it," &c. This is the tirst 

 we ever heard of such a thinjj, and is whollxj 

 untrue, as far as we are concerned; and as 

 we received the medal, we think we would 

 liave been called upon for the $7.00, if any 

 one was to pay it. 



Next, he says that Doolittle and Betsinger 

 were to go in partnership tor the medal, and 

 if they took it, Betsinger was to have the 

 credit for the box and Doolittle for the 

 honey. This is as untrue as the other state- 

 ments. Each of us, B. and ourselves, made 

 crates to compete for the medal, while B. 

 told Mr. Hoge at the lime we sold our honey 

 to Thurber & Co., that ^le should certainly 

 get it, as no one had honey that would com- 

 pare with his. Later, B. said to us (that is 

 my better-half and myself) that he did not 

 care which of us got the medal, as long as it 

 was awarded on the boxes we used. He also 

 made this statement to Mr. Hoge while we 

 were in New York City, after my case ot 

 honey was stolen; that was all that was ever 

 said in the matter between us. 



Then, Novice says that "another case was 

 selected from the lot of honey that Thurber 

 & Co. purchased of Mr. D., and the medal 

 was awarded to it," when the judges say it 

 was not awarded '• to any one crate of an ex- 

 liibit, but that they considered the boxes of 

 honey put into the fancy crate by Mr. Doo- 



little as excelling all others on exhibition!" 



Messrs. Thurber &Co. also wrote me, soon 

 after the medal was awarded, that tiiey had 

 christened our f<mcy crate the "Gold Medal 

 Honey." 



Novice next states that " black bees will, 

 without question, make whiter-looking 

 honey than the Italians." We have had sev- 

 eral letters since the National Convention, 

 stating that the honey in our fancy crate was 

 the whitest and nicest honey on exhibition, 

 and the nicest they ever saw; besides what 

 the judges say. We can prove to any one 

 caring to investigate, that we liave had no 

 black bees for five years. 



Novice next says that " Mr. D. accuses 

 Betsinger ot having known of the blunder 

 before the award, and of keeping still pur- 

 posely." The truth is, we wrote Novice 

 ]ust the words a friend wrote us in the mat- 

 ter, leaving him to draw his own conclu- 

 sions. We may have said it looked as 

 though B. knew all about it before the 

 award, or something to that intent. 



Then, Novice tells us that " Betsinger sta- 

 ted trutlifuUy that it was made by black 

 bees." This cannot be so, for even Mr. 

 Ranney's bees are mostly Italians and hy- 

 brids. 



Next. Novice says we " made a most des- 

 perate effort to make it appear that the honey 

 in question was not Ranney's, but our own, 

 after all." Betsinger told me the second 

 time I saw him after the Convention, that if I 

 would send him either Ranney's honey state- 

 ment or my own, he would prove the medal 

 was awarded on crate No. 2 of JNIr. Ranney's 

 honey, and said I dare not send him either 

 statement! To prove his knowledge in the 

 matter, I sent him Ranney's statement pvu- 

 porting to be ours, and ours purporting to be 

 Mr. Ranney's, and this was the "desperate 

 effort" Novice alludes to. We were soon 

 convinced we had not done right in thus in- 

 tending to deceive Betsinger, even although 

 he dared us to send himjeither statement; no 

 matter which. So we sat down and wrote 

 him, acknowledging our wrong, and asking 

 his forgiveness, and soon had a letter from 

 liim saying he forgave it. 



Next, Novice says, " Here is a copy of the 

 statement sent the Magazine, knowing the 

 the full facts as I have given them." We 

 knew nothing of Betsinger's claim when we 

 wrote the statement to the A. B. J. aiul B. 

 K. M., and Novice had our letters in his pos- 

 session telling him that no claim had been 

 made of the medal being awarded on Mr. 

 Ranney's honey when we made those two 

 statements! And now he tells his readers 

 that ice knew the fi ill facts, as he has given 

 them! 



Novice has a great deal to say about Satan, 

 but a friend thinks if Satan had anything to 

 do in the matter, that he must have certainly 

 set the type for that article entitled " Trou- 

 ble," for Novice could not have depart- 

 ed so far from truthfulness without his 

 help. Now, we demand that Novice humbly 

 acknowledges he has done wrong in this mat- 

 ter (no if I have done wrong in this matter; 

 for he knows he has done wrong); or else 

 tell his readers that all his boasted goodness, 

 in Gleanings, is a sham! 



G. M. Doolittle. 



Borodino, N. Y., Feb. 13, 1878, 



