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winter well. If memory serves us cor- 

 rectly, it was not many years ago that a 

 certain gentleman in the United Slates 

 advertised that he had wonderfully hardy 

 bees for sale that would winter in- or 

 out-doors, in good or had hives, under 

 any and all circumstances. The follow- 

 ing winter proved conclusively, however, 

 that such was not the case, and that a 

 person, to be convinced, had only to 

 gaze upon his empty hives in the spring. 



We would suggest that, as a public 

 safeguard and a guarantee of good faith, 

 any one, having bees which they claim 

 to be superior to all others in any re- 

 spect, should send a colony or two to 

 Professor Cook, or some of the leading 

 apiculturists of the North American 

 Beekeepers' Association, appoint a 

 committee to test their qualities, and if 

 they are superior in the various points 

 claimed, that they be either awarded a 

 diploma and the right to charge so much 

 a colony, for a certain number of colo- 

 nies, these to be distributed at the vari- 

 ous convenient points throughout North 

 America for breeding purposes, or that 

 the party receive s :itable government 

 recompense, and give them to reliable 

 queen-breeders at special rates. Ihe 

 breeder in turn to sell the queens at a 

 price that will be within the reach of 

 every beekeeper. 



It strikes us that D. A. Jones is the 

 last man in the world who should make 

 such an attack on his more enterprising 

 neighbors. We deny that "new-fangled 

 notions in reference to bees is the or- 

 der of the day." There is no "new-fan- 

 gled" notion about it. We believe the 

 beekeepers of the present day are as 

 intelligent as they were the year D. A. 

 Jones sent those worthless Cyprian and 

 Holy I>and bees all over America. Does 

 U. A. J. suppose American beekeepers 

 have forgotten the prices charged for 

 those, the meanest of all races of bees? 

 Now that he has realized all that one 

 can from such an enterprise, he (Jones) 

 intimates that the government should 

 have a hand in fixing the price on queen 

 bees that some one in America has had 

 push and enterprise enough to procure. 



How is it that D. A. J. did not think of 

 these things when he was charging from 

 $5 to $io each for queen bees tiiat were 

 not worth the postage that it recjuired 

 to mail them from Canada to America? 



IIKIUO IS ONK OF JOXKS' IDKAS. 



"Mention a way in which bees may 

 be improved, and it will not be long 

 before you will find somebody advertis- 

 ing something." Yes, you will, and that 

 somebody is an American, or Yankees as 

 some call them. We do not hide our 

 light under a bushel. The "Yanks," as 

 the rebels used to call us, are wide awake 

 and up early in the morning. No dead- 

 and-alive people here Bro. Jones. I 

 there is anything that needs pushing 

 Americans are the ones to push it.. 



JONES AGAIN. 



"If memory serves us correctly, it was 

 not many years ago that a certain gen- 

 tleman in the United States advertised 

 that he had wonderful hardy bees for 



sale Tlie following winter 



proved conclusively, however, that such 

 was not the case." 



What does Jones know about this 

 matter? Just what he has guessed at. 

 'Tis a made-up-as you-go statement to 

 fit the subject and make out a case. 

 There is not a particle of truth in the 

 above statement, as it would be impos- 

 sible for Jones or any other person to get 

 correct reports of such a condition of 

 things. 



JONES' INCONSISTENCY. 



"Now we fancy tliere is a disposition 

 on the part of someone to make a boom 

 for a season or two on a special kind of 

 bee, and by the time the public learns 

 that this new bee is a hollow mockery, 

 they can jump off that hobby upon a dif- 

 ferent one." 



Are the people referred to booming 

 their goods to a greater extent than D. 

 A. Jones does those he has for sale? 

 How about tiie Jones hive and some 

 other hives that have been boomed so 

 much the past four years in the Cana- 

 dian Bee Journal? Hasn't one person 

 as good a right to boom his goods as 

 another? 



