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THE AMERICAN APICVLTURIST. 



I will sa}' here that the article in 

 Gleanings blowing the svvariner was in- 

 spired l)y spite. Let us all boom our 

 goods, and if any are found worthless, 

 cast them oft". When so nian^^ good 

 reports have come to hand concerning 

 the successful workings of the scann- 

 er, I am of the opinion it has not been 

 boomed too much. 



IT IS SAID 



That Dr. C. C. Miller says some 

 cute things and makes some hard hits 

 in Stray ^Straws. 



Tliat Dr. G. L. Tinker has been 

 very silent and quiet for several 

 months. Did James Heddou put the 

 quietus on the Dr. in that beediive 

 controversy? Guess not. 



That large croi)s of honey were se- 

 cured in the season of 1891 in some 

 parts of the country while in many lo- 

 calities little or none was produced. 

 This is true of any season. 'Tis a big 

 countiy, you know. 



That Tunic bees stand at the head 

 of all the imported races, and that 

 many of our readers expected this 

 statement to be made : that the read- 

 ers of the Api exi)ect the editor to tell 

 the exact truth concerning all things 

 connected with bee culture whether 

 it strikes a friend or an enemy. 



Tiiat some i)e()[)le wouUl write less 

 for publication in bi^e-papers if tliey 

 had better sense, and confine their re- 

 marks solely to bee matters. That it 

 is bad taste and a breach of common 

 decency for an editor to admit to his 

 columns articles from unknown and ir- 

 responsii)le parties si m[)ly to venttiieir 

 spleen and spite. That it cannot be 

 done in the Api is a vvell known fact. 



That there were more than fourhun- 

 dred golden Carniolan queens reared 

 in and shipped from the Bay State 

 Apiary after May 20, 18'J1, and only 

 three of the entire lot that did not 

 give entire satisfaction. I believe this 

 is as good a showing as any queen 

 dealer can make. 



That orders for golden Carniolan 



queens did not come in on the rush 

 till our friends, the enemy, yelled at 

 the top of their voices and wilh all 

 the venom and spite they could com- 

 mand, "swindle, humbug and fraud!" 



That these parties have our thanks 

 and are kindly requested to continue 

 such tactics another year and that it 

 will be much more to our advantage 

 if they will commence the racket as 

 early as April 1, 1892. 



That orders are now coming in and 

 being booked for Punic and golden 

 Carniolan queens to be ship[)ed in the 

 season of LS92. 



That orders for upwards of twelve 

 hundred of these queens will be re- 

 ceived before the end of the season of 

 1892. 



That this statement is based on the 

 fact that our orders for queens have 

 averaged more than twelve hundred 

 each year the past thirty years. 



That this is a fact our books will 

 show and they may be inspected by 

 anyone who (loubts the statement. 



That a ceilain editor of a bee jour- 

 nal will let most anyone have all the 

 space desired to slander, berate, vil- 

 ify and abuse some of his best friends, 

 and that T. G. N. and Son will give 

 the slandered party all the space 

 called for to refute the l^ing charges. 



That some of those peo[)le who are 

 slandered in bee-papers have other 

 business than that of re|)lying to such 

 contemptil)le cranks whose only gift 

 lies in the fact that they can sling ink. 



That it will not l)e necessary for me 

 to pay Thomas G. Newman & Son 

 sevenl3'-five dollars for advertising my 

 goods in the A. B. J. (a thing I did 

 in 1891), if they will let the cranks 

 cry fraud and humbug in 1892 in their 

 paper to the extent they were allowed 

 in the season 1891. 



That it is seem'nighj pretty rough to 

 pay so much to advertise one's goods 

 and then to have the editor pay a 

 crank live dollars for an article inserted 

 in the same paper claiming that the 

 goods so advertised are a humbug and 

 a fraud — seemingly I say it is rough. 



