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THE AMERICAN APICULTURIST. 



No doubt most of the readers of 

 the American Bee Journal {e\t under 

 obhgations for the privilege of reading 

 those very interesting articles by 

 Mr, Frank Cheshire on Foul Brood, 

 published about a year ago, but 

 probably few are aware that they 

 are so altered that the author would 

 hardly know them. In an introduc- 

 tory paragraph we are told they are 

 copied from the British Bee Jour- 

 nal, but on comparing them with the 

 originals, we find that there are nine- 

 teen words and one phrase added, 

 sixteen words, nine phrases, thirteen 

 clauses, thirty-six sentences and ten 

 e7itire paragraphs omitted, and sev- 

 enty words, three phrases and two 

 clauses altered by substituting others. 

 In some cases the idea as well as the 

 phraseology is changed and yet Mr. 

 Cheshire is held responsible before 

 the public. In the seventy changes 

 of words the good Anglo-Saxon word 

 "stock" is invariably changed to the 

 less appropriate word "colony;" 

 "hive," when used so as to mean the 

 contained for the container,is changed 

 to "'colony," and the word "apiarist" 

 is always substituted for the more 

 euphonious word "apiarian." Even 

 if it were allowable to make changes 

 in the language used by a writer, in 

 such a case some of the changes 

 made cannot be defended. For in- 

 stance, Mr. Cheshire quotes a para- 

 graph from " Carpenter on the 

 Microscope" in which this phrase 

 occurs : "The mortality caused by it 

 (Pebrine) being estimated to pro- 

 duce a money loss of from three to 

 four millions sterling annually for 

 several years." This language of the 

 great Dr. Carpenter should be good 



enough, but it does not come up to 

 the standard required by Mr. New- 

 man. "Millions sterling" must be 

 changed to "millions (9/'sterling" be- 

 fore it can be permitted to appear in 

 the pages of his journal. Altogether 

 the changes are so extensive and so 

 important, that those who wish to see 

 what Frank Cheshire actually did say 

 on Foul Brood, will have to read his 

 article in the British Bee Journal. 

 Lindsay, Sept. 8, i88j. 



THE NEW vs THE OLD. 

 No 2. 



In our journey through life how 

 often we make comparison with the 

 old. Those who have lived any 

 number of years look with wonder 

 at the rapid march of improvement, 

 and yet often can compare the good 

 old times with the new, with the ad- 

 vantage on the side of the old. One 

 reason for this is the fact that there 

 are two forces that travel equally fast 

 and side by side. For instance one 

 man wants a gun whose missile will 

 penetrate the armor of any ship or 

 fort known, but simultaneously with 

 him, another is inventing an armor 

 that is able to resist it, and so it goes, 

 one man's ingenuity arrayed against 

 another's, and great results are ac- 

 complished ; yet in reality the situa- 

 tion is unchanged. These compari- 

 sons can be made in almost every 

 branch of science. In the science of 

 apiculture the comparison between the 

 old and new is one that gives pleas- 



