THE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER. 



45 



Wm. Styan enters the editorial 

 ranks at the helm of the California Bee- 

 Keeper, a new journal nearly the size 

 of this magazine. It is well printed, 

 and starts very fairly. We wish it suc- 

 cess. 



All our readers have doubtless read 

 the big potato advertisement of Jacob 

 T.Timpe in this and other bee journals. 

 Friend Timpe sent us some of his tu- 

 bers and they were as big as his adver- 

 tisement, and their eating qualities 

 were most excellent. Read his offer. 



We acknowledge with thanks the 

 receipt from the publisher, Henry Al- 

 ley, of a copy of the 1891 edition of his 

 "Thirty Years Among Bees." It is a 

 valuable book and should be in the 

 hands of every bee-keeper. Price by 

 mail 50c. 



W. M. Gerrish, Nottingham, N. H., 

 writes us that bees are wintering nice- 

 ly in that section. Mr. Gerrish is 

 quite an extensive supply dealer, and 

 our friends in his vicinity should ask 

 him for his price list. 



Cannot you get up a club of subo 

 scribers for us, dear reader ? It will pay 

 you. We allow you to retain ten cents 

 on every subscriber. Try to send us a 

 few before the next issue. 



We have had several inquiries as to 

 the size of hive and frame best adapt- 

 ed for extracted honey. We would be 

 pleased to receive a few short articles 

 on the subject, for our April number. 



We believe the winter case will be 

 in general use in the near future. We 

 would like to hear from our friends 

 who have had experien^p with them. 



In our January number we stated 

 that a discount would be allowed by 

 our advertisers on first order sent in by 

 any reader mentioning this journal. 

 Before inserting the item we wrote to 

 our advertiseis asking their consent, 

 and received favorable replies from 

 every one but two, and these were not 

 heard from until the magazine was 

 printed and ready to mail. We there- 

 upon wrote these that as all our adver- 

 tisers from whom we had heard had 

 readily consented we did not suppose 

 they would object, but we would do the 

 best we could and would gladly pay any 

 discounts claimed, ourselves, if they 

 would advise us the amounts. One of 

 these parties, the G. B. Lewis Co., pos- 

 itively refused to compromise the mat- 

 ter in any way, and, evidently, with 

 the intention of doing us as much harm 

 as possible, wrote to the editor of the 

 A. B. J. a letter in which they stated 

 that they had given us "strict orders " 

 not to publish their ad. with the dis- 

 count offer, etc. This was false, but 

 the editor of the A. B. J., of course, 

 had only their word for it, and without 

 first investigating the matter, as he 

 should have done, he very indiscreetly 

 published an article on page 109 in 

 which our good name and honesty were 

 severely questioned, a thing that has 

 never occurred before during our en- 

 tire business career. We immediately 

 wrote a letter to Mr. Newman, statiug 

 the exact facts in the case and offer- 

 ing him $1,000.00 if he would prove 

 even one of the assertions he had made 

 regarding us, — and we asked him to do 

 us justice in the matter by publishing 

 our side of the story. This he refused 

 to do, until other means were brought 

 to bear, when he very discreetly con- 

 eluded to give an exjdanation . which, 



