It is now covered with little balls or seed 

 like the sample. I would like to know its 

 name, and where they are procured. When 

 in bloom, it is very fragrant and very 

 attractive to bees, and was consequently 

 covered with them. It remains in bloom 2 

 or 3 weeks." Luther A. Taber. 



[It is basswGod or linden, Tilia Ameri- 

 cana. As a honey producer it has no su- 

 perior.— Ed. 



J 



Ragersville, Ohio, July 32. 1878. 



Mr. Editor : — As I have just started an 

 apiary, I concluded, after looking at the va- 

 rious bee hives, to use the one recommended 

 in Cook's Manual of the Apiary, which in 

 reality is the Simplicity Bee-Hive. What I 

 want to know is this— Has N. C. Mitchell, of 

 Sandusky, Ohio, a patent thereon, or is his 

 patent upon the division boards? Can I 

 make the hive recommended in Cook's 

 Manual, and use the division board without 

 being prosecuted by said Mitchell?— as his 

 advertisement is sufficient to scare a novice 

 into fits if he makes use of said hive and di- 

 vision boards. By replying in the Ameri- 

 can Bee Journal, you will oblige, 



Dr. H. J. Peters. 



[There is no patent on Prof. Cook's hive, 

 as represented in his Manual — nor on the 

 division boards. 



N. C. Mitchell has a patent on the adjust- 

 able hive and a division board combined 

 with rubber or cloth strips at the sides, and 

 " lugs " at the bottom. A plain division 

 board is neither patented nor patentable. 



You need not fear trouble from any 

 quarter for making the hive and using the 

 division board recommended by Professor 

 Cook.— Ed.1 



5^~ Everybody now report comb founda- 

 tion a success in every sense of the word. 

 That with wire incorporated into it for the 

 breeding apartment is also reported to be a 

 success, and is advertised in this Journal. 

 We shall also till orders for it. 



How to Winter.— Those who wish to 

 post up on the subject of wintering, will do 

 well to read Prof. Cook's essay as read be- 

 fore the National Convention of 1876. — 

 Price 15 cents. 



Gone.— Another of our little squad— slowly trudg- 

 ing up the hill, has fallen by the wayside. 



Charles Hastings, of Carlisle. Iowa, died on the 

 morning of July 5th, 1878, in the 64th year of his age. 



For many years he followed our favorite pursuit 

 in this country ; and in him we lose not only a most 

 skillful operator, but one of the fearless thinkers of 

 the age. A man without si(.perstition, in the broadest 

 sense of the term,— has left us. Years ago, he had 

 the reason and courage to exchange popular reli- 

 gion for liberty, charity, and justice. Freed from 

 the frightful chains of superstition, he departed as 

 serenely as the coming of dawn. Among his last 

 words were : " I have no fears of the future." 



In the broad arms of our Mother Nature, that he 

 loved so well, we leave him to rest. 



Dowagiac, Mich., July 12, 1878. James Heddon. 



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