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THE- AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



[For the Amei-icau Bee Journal.] 



A Word of Explanation. 



In reply to dozens of correspondents, in regard 

 to my certificate in Dr. Conklin's Circular, I will 

 say that said certificate was taken partly from 

 tiie American Bee Journal and partly from pri- 

 vate letters, and entirely disconnected from the 

 several sut)jects. Thus putting words together 

 answers the Doctor's purpose, no doul t, admi- 

 rably. But in this same manner, I can prove by- 

 Scripture that the Doctor ought to commit sui- 

 cide — "And he departed and went and hanged 

 himself." "Go thou, and do likewise !" Now, no 

 one can deny that this quotation is pretty near 

 Scripture. The only question is, is it rightly put 

 together? — I will say this much: I have con- 

 sented to take one of the Diamond hives on trial ; 

 and the Doctor has forwarded one to me, together 

 with the right to make and use, free of charge. 

 I have had a favorable opinion of that form of 

 hive — say nothing about the Doctor's fixtures. 

 But I can tell its worth better after testing it. — I 

 have also received oiie of Dr. J. Davis^ Queen 

 ISTurseries, together with a right to use. Arc., but 

 have liad no opportunity to test it, as I received 

 It too late last fall. 



I hear that other parties are using my name in 

 order to sell their wares. According to this 

 Gallup's name must be worth something to said 

 parties. Now what I wish distinctly understood 

 is this : whenever Gallup discovers anything in 

 the bee line worthy of a certificate or recommen- 

 dation, he is the very man that will uot.be afraid 

 to say so, and that through the public press ; and 

 until he does so acknowledge anytlung worthy, 

 you may take it for granted that the use of his 

 name is unauthorized. 



No man civn well be a true nian who is jflways 

 seeking to know how far he can go towards a lie 

 and yet not be technically unfaithful to the truth. 

 This half permissive lie does not come up to my 

 standard. All this kind of management, all this 

 equivocation, all this dexterity in avoiding exact 

 truth, does not exactly agree Avith my idea of 

 manliness. E. Gallup. 



Orchard, loica. 



[For the American Bee Journal.] 



Patent Hives. 



An article in the March No. of the Bee Jour- 

 nal ought perhaps to receive some notice from 

 me. Mr. J. M. Worden, after describing a hive 

 embracing the patented features of my hive, and 

 claiming that he "has attained similar results" 

 with Mr. Quinby in constructing a hive, and by 

 such language leaving it to be inferred that he is 

 the inventor of it ; as he also says " it is and ever 

 will be free from patent, so far as I am con- 

 cerned," is ungenerous enough to use the follow- 

 ing language : 



"Let us all try and contribute our mite, that 

 we may perfect a hive aad a system of bee-keep- 

 ing free to all, and cease to patronize tJie cormo- 

 rants that have for years plundered the industry 

 of the countrJ^ Cease to patronize patents, and 



they will soon cease to be the disgusting nuisance 

 they now are, «&c." 



But few persons will agree with Mr. Worden 

 that the bright array of eminent inventors of our 

 country who have, by their labors and studj"-, 

 placed us in advance of all the world in science 

 and art, liave only been so manj- "cormorants, 

 plundering the industry of the country," or 

 "disgusting nuisances." No doubt he uttered 

 this uncalled for denunciation in a fit of thought- 

 lessness and must be ashamed of it by this time, 

 for a man of his intelligence must know that the 

 industry of the country has been almost entirely 

 built up by patented inventions, and most of the 

 inveiitors have been inadequately rewarded for 

 the labor and thought expended on their inven- 

 tions. The "industry of the country" has the 

 best end of the bargain. Does he suppose that 

 one invention in ten would ever have been made, 

 had the inventors expected nothing in return for 

 it except the "greater hapjiiness" he romantically 

 sui:)poses " a good and true man" feels in "being 

 serviceable to his fellow-creatures without the 

 hope of fee or reward ?" Does he not know 

 that without the kind of protection which our 

 government throws around the work of a man's 

 brains equally with the labor of his hands, and 

 the property he acquires by his fortunate posses- 

 sion of wealth, that all important discoveries and 

 inventions would beheld as secrets and only sold 

 under oaths and bonds, and that many of them 

 would die with the inventors, as did the lost arts 

 of the ancients ? " The laborer is worthy of his 

 hire," and brains have, in all ages, commanded 

 greater wages than muscle, and justly so. 

 " Cease to i5atronize" thought and genius, and 

 they will soon cease to be expendecl on inven- 

 tions, the" disgusting nuisances" friend Worden 

 makes them out. Act on his theory and practice 

 of laying hold of another man's property and 

 claiming it as your own, and we return to- 



"The good old rule, the simple plan. 

 That he may take who has the power, 

 And he m-j.y keep who can." 



He says of his arrangement, "whether it nec- 

 essarily conflicts with Mr. Adair's patent, I do 

 not know." The description he gives of the 

 hive embraces the most important of my claims. 

 A part of the specification is as follows : 



" The nature of my invention consists in form- 

 ing the different chambers, apartments, and 

 honey boxes of a bee hive of a series of vertical 

 sections or rims, so fitted to each other, in suffi- 

 cient number, as to form close boxes of the size 

 required, &c." "The whole is enclosed by an 

 outer case or box, &c." Each section is formed 

 by nailing together four thin pieces of wood. 

 For the brood chamber thej'- are generally about 

 one-half an inch in thickness, and for the honey 

 boxes about half that thickness. They are all 

 about one and a half inch wide, and of the proi)er 

 length to make the sized box required. The 

 upper piece and the lower project slightly beyond 

 the other two pieces in front, and set back the 

 same distance from the edge of the same in the 

 rear, so as to foim shoulders, so that when the 

 sections are joined together they fit into each 

 other to hold them in their proper places. A suf- 



