Humbugs and Swindles. 



In Gleanings for May, Novice attacked 

 J. W. Winder's honesty. We wrote Chas. 

 F. Muth, of Cincinnati, who has long been 

 intimate with him, and he assured us that 

 Mr. Winder was honest, but had met with 

 reverses, and was unable to clear up some 

 business matters. Novice mis-stated the 

 amount and ungenerously magnified .'$10 into 

 $30, in his zeal for a tight. As Mr. Winder 

 asks to be heard in self-defense, we cheer- 

 fully give place to the following expla- 

 nation : 



My attention lias just been called to an 

 article in the May number of Bee Olean- 

 ings, under the head of "Humbugs and 

 Swindles,"! in which I am arraigned for 

 not paying one J. P. Parker $30. The state- 

 ment in the first outset is a falsehood. I 

 never owed Mr. Parker one cent, personally, 

 as stated, but we did owe him under the 

 firm name of Gray & Winder. 



The queens could not be procured as pro- 

 posed, on account of the unsuccessful im- 

 gortation made by Mrs. E. S. Tupper & 

 avery. Some time after this failure to 

 procure the queens for Mr. Parker, I made 

 satisfactory arrangements with him for a 

 settlement. I was to send him $15 in three 

 payments of $5 each. I did send him $5 at 

 the time, some 5 years ago ; and from that 

 time to this 1 have not heard one word from 

 him. About this same time 1 received a 

 letter from the editor of Gleanings, threat- 

 ening me if I did not settle up, &c., with 

 Mr. Parker. 



I stated to him, by letter, the arrange- 

 ments I had made with Mr. Parker, and 

 that we needed none of his interference; we 

 were able to attend to our own business, 

 &c., and that if he did publish me in the 

 Oleanings, that 1 would not pay any more. 



He did' make some false statements in his 

 paper in reference to me, which were cal- 

 culated to injure my standing and character 

 among persons that did not know me ; and 

 as I consider and always try to make my 

 word good, I have not paid any more on the 

 $10, (not $30, as stated). 



I supposed he had had $10 worth of mali- 

 cious satisfaction out of tlie course he had 

 pursued, and so I called the account square, 

 and think I am justified. 



Novice is down on thieves and swin- 

 dlers. Let me ask who has appropriated 

 and copied my curved pointed, uncapping 

 knife ? Who has copied my cuts and 

 appropriated to his own use and sale my 

 Swiss or Gerster wax extractor, that is so 

 highly reconnnendt'il in Bee Gleanings?— 

 As long as I nianufiicturt'd and advertised 

 the curved pointed knife, he always spoke 

 of it as of no consequence. Now lie makes 

 and highly recommends it for uncapping, 

 and the wax extractor lie highly recom- 

 mends for getting out wax, &c., but he fails 

 to hint who he purloined them from. 



If a man ] imposes to reform the world, I 

 think it ]>iHir policy to pi'each one thing and 

 give it the lie in the practice. Brother, you 

 had better diag the mote out of your own 



eye, and then you can see more clearly how 

 to pluck it out of your neighbor's eye. — 

 "Let justice be done though the heavens 

 fall," if it does appear hard on those that go 

 nosing about, appropriating bee appliances 

 and other peoples' business to their own 

 use, and making false statements under the 

 hypocritical cloak of right and justice to. 



all. J. W. WiNDEK. 



Terre Bonne, La., May 20, 1878. 



Bee-keeping in Western Michigan. 



We clip the following statement in regard 

 to bee-culture iit Western Michigan from 

 the columns of the Barry County Sentinel : 



The business of bee-keeping has become 

 one of importance in Michigan, and many 

 gentlemen in various sections are giving it 

 a great deal of attention. Among those 

 who have been quite successful is W. L. 

 Cobb, of Middleville, who has made it a 

 study for several years, and now has all the 

 modern appliances and improvements. He 

 has lately liurchased a foundation machine, 

 intended to use for moulding out of wax the 

 foundation for comb with which to fill the 

 hives of new swarms. This plan saves a 

 great amount of labor for the bees, and in 

 many instances they will have the hive 

 nearly filled with honey, where in the ordi- 

 nary manner they would still be building 

 comb. Bee-keepers should look up these 

 new improvements and adopt them when 

 they are evidently beneficial. Marcenus 

 Wright, of the same place, has also been 

 eminently successful with his apiary; — 

 During the past year his yard has been an 

 object of curiosity, there having been at 

 one time 230 colonies within one enclosure. 

 He has an improved method of packing his 

 hives for winter, which has been found a 

 safe manner of carrying them through the 

 long winters without loss. It is worth one's 

 time to travel many miles to visit these 

 gentlemen at any time during the season.— 

 Mr. Wright has become so used to the bee 

 stings that it seems as though he rather 

 likes them ; at any rate, at the time when 

 strangers would be driven from the yard by 

 these little fighters, he walks among them 

 fearless and unconcerned. They either 

 leave him alone, or else they have learned 

 from experience that they cannot hurt him. 



Chinese Mustakd as a Honey Plant. 

 —Perhaps one of the very best honey pro- 

 ducing plants is tall Chinese mustard. It 

 remains in blossom a very long time, seems 

 to yield honey continuously, is equally 

 vigorous to resist drought, or wet, and 

 flourishes in all soils. It maybe sowed any 

 time from May 1st to middle of June— the 

 earlier the better. It will seed itself — its 

 greatest drawback; yet, it is far less troub- 

 lesome as a weed than common nuistard. — 

 It should be planted in drills, a foot apart, 

 for ease of cultivation. An ounce will plant 

 a space of one rod by four. 



We can only fill a few orders for this seed. 

 Price, per ounce, 30c.; quarter pound, 75c., 

 postpaid. 



