THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



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For the American Bee Journal. 

 Conklin's Diamond Hive. 



Dr. Conldin having- patented the hive invented 

 and made public property by my surrendering 

 my rights of invention, I submit the following 

 staternent of facts : 



I made the invention public property on or 

 about tlie 1st of March, 1868. The description 

 and dr;u\ ing w.'re made on the 2!2d of February. 

 I was MuMi going to make a claim for a patent ; 

 but on consideration I concluded to abandon the 

 invention to the public, which I (Ud on the 1st 

 of March, by sending desci-iption and drawing 

 to the "■ American Agriculturist,^'' Xew York, 

 American Bep: .Journal, Washington, and 

 Western Rural, Chicago. 



The following letter was received, in reply, 

 from the office of the Ainerican Agriculturist: 



Office of American Agricultukist, 

 No. 41 Pabk Row, 

 New York, 9th March, 1868. 

 To John M. Price, Buffalo Grove, Iowa: 



Dear Sir; The letter to Mr. Judd was put into my 

 hands on the 7th inst. I fear now that it will be hardly 

 possible for us to use the description of your hive sent 

 for the May number. 



You may or may not be aware that there is another 

 hive, almost exactly on tlie same principle as yours, 



?iatented. The man had his model in our office only a 

 ew months ago, and I understood then it was patented. 

 It may be that this is the same hive. Will you have the 

 goodness to let me know when the hive was invented ; 

 when first used ; if it infringes any patent you know of. 

 The plan struck me as an admirable one ; but I should 

 think it would be worthless as a movable frame hive, 

 unless it employed Langstroth's patent. 



If you answer so that we can get your letter by the 

 17th, it will be in time for the May number. 

 Vei7 respectfully, 



Mason C. Wells, 

 Agricultural Editor, for O. Judd & Co. 



Office American Agricultctrist, . 

 No. 41 Park Bow, 

 New York, 3d April, 1868. 

 To John M. Price, Buffalo Grove, Iowa: 



Dear Sir: The name of the man who has patented a 

 beehive similar in principle, as I view it, to tjie one you 

 send,* which was duly received, is Bingham. I cannot 

 give vou his first name. However, if you write to Mr. 

 Bingham, owner of Bingham's Patent Bee Hive, Cassa- 

 daga, Chautauque Co., N. Y., you will probably hear from 

 him. Ask him for a circular, send a few cents in post- 

 age, and say you heard about his invention through a 

 friend. Mason C. Wells, i 



I also sent a description and drawing to Mi\ I 

 E. Gallup, of Osage, Iowa, which he mentions j 

 on page 'Si) of the August numberof the Ambri- j 

 CAN Bee Journal,, 1868, article on Bee Feeding, j 



In April, >Ii-. James Cotant made and used | 

 two of these hives, at Buffalo Grove, Iowa. I 



In May Mr. Charles Jackway had in use two i 

 of them at Buffalo Grove, Iowa. i 



In May, Mr. F. ^M. Hunt, of Independence, I 

 Iowa, had in use one of them. , 



I had in use thirty-two of them, by, I think, i 

 the first of June. i 



In August I received the following letter from i 

 Mr. Samuel Wagner, in reply to one of mine. i 



* I answered his first letter, and sent him a working 

 model, which is duly acknowledged In this letter of 

 April 3. 



Washington, D. C, July 31, 1868. 

 John M. Price, Esq.: 



Dear Sir: I deferred noticing your description of 

 your hive, as it re(iuires a wood-cut tor illustration, and 

 we have no wood engraver here now. The cuts for the 

 Mechanical Report of the Patent Office are engraved at 

 Buffalo, N. Y. If I cannot procure a cut, i will still 

 endeavor to use your description at an early day. 

 Yours truly, 



Samuel Wagner. 



On receiving the above letter, I made a work- 

 ing model and sent liim a better description and 

 draA\ing, whicli he mentions in tlie followins: 

 letter : 



Washington, D. C, September 26, 1868. 

 J. M. Price, Esq.: 



Dear Sir: I duly received, per express, the model of 

 your hive, and am much pleased with its arrangement, 

 though it is of course not possible to judge properly of 

 its adaptedness and value, except on actual trial. The 

 drawing and description came to hand likewise. I had 

 a reduced copy of the former made, and expected to 

 have a cut engraved in season for the October number 

 of the Bee Journal, but regret to say it it could not be 

 finished In time for the printer, so that It will have to 

 be delayed a month longer. 



Yours truly, 



Samuel Wagner. 



All of the above correspou<lence took place 

 before the 1st of October, 1868, and on the 20th 

 of October, 1868, a patent was issued to Dr. A, 

 V. Conklin for his Diamond Frame Hive. See 

 his "claims." 



The one hundred or more readers and sub- 

 scribers of the Bee Journal, who have written 

 to me. expressing their desire to use the hive, 

 can see by the above correspondence their per- 

 fect right to do so, subject only to Mi-. Lang- 

 stroth's claims on the principle. 



J. M. Price. 



Buffalo Grove, Iowa. 



For the American Bee Journal. 



The Rectangular Frame.— Rejoinder. 



Mb. Editor :— (I cannot help feeling sorry 

 for Ml-. Editor, who has to hear everybody's at- 

 tacks and everybody's defence; but, as Mr. 

 Editor really means all his readers, I say Mr. 

 Editor too.) In the November number of the 

 Bee Journal, Mr. Miller, of Peninsula, Ohio, 

 directs his battery against the Rectangular Frame 

 Hive and myself. In comtesy to him I answer 

 his request. First, let me say to Mr. Miller, it 

 is too late in the day to make that kind of attack 

 on the rectangular frame hive as I liave them, as 

 they are too widely circulated and too many of 

 them are in use to do it any injury. Since read- 

 ing your article I have exaniined hunch-eds of 

 the "Diamond Frame Hives" in this section 

 that were filled the past season, and here is the 

 certificate of the owners, "since you doubt my 

 statement." 



"Dr. Conklin showed us Mr. Miller's attack of him 

 and his Diamond Frame hive. He then opened our hives 

 and removed all the frames (some of them had not been 

 opened since the bees were put in them), without cut- 

 tmg or breaking a single comb. We have handled the 

 Langstroth, American, and several other frame hives, 

 but never saw a hive that the combs were always so 

 straight in the frames. Mr. Miller's attack does not ap- 

 ply to Dr. Conklin's Diamond Fiurae Hive. He then 



