THE AMERICAN APICULTURIST. 



editorial in one of onr journals^ to 

 the effect tliat "Moses Quinby 

 never used the frame hive till Mr. 

 L. C. Root entered his employ," 

 was commented upon by Rev. Mr. 

 Van Slyke, of Syracuse, N. Y., who 

 pronounced it utterly false and 

 sustained his assertion. 



There are those In this world who, 

 when a man is powerless to defend 

 his own rights, take advantage of 

 these circumstances but truth and 

 justice although they sometimes 

 move slowly, yet are sure sooner 

 or later to bring to light all the 

 actions of the lives of public men 

 be they good or bad, and as apicul- 

 ture advances we shall become 

 more and more acquainted with the 

 value and worth of the teachings of 

 Moses Quinby and more fully 

 aware of the injustice that has been 

 done him and his noble co-worker, 

 the Rev. L. L. Langstroth. 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



For many years thoughtful and 

 prominent apiarists have given con- 

 siderable attention to developing a 

 long-tongued race of bees, which 

 by the way is just as feasible as 

 developing races of short- and long- 

 legged sheep, etc. Mr. Martin of 

 Hartford, N. Y., has, we believe, 

 come the nearest to perfecting an in- 

 strument for testing the length of 

 the bee's tongue ; but this was not 

 accurate and after studying upon it 

 for several years we have at last 

 completed one that is graduated so 

 as to give the length of the tongue 

 in ten thousandths of an inch. We 

 should be pleased if any of our 

 dealers or honey producers, having 

 queens whose workers are valuable 

 honey producers, would send us 

 some bees from such queens. We 



1 See Uepoits of the Convention. Feb. and 

 Mar. Nos. of this Journal, p. 41, Vol. II. 



will test them, put them in alcohol 

 and publish a description of them 

 in the Journal. Here is a good 

 chance for Mr. Heddon's hybrids to 

 take the lead. I hope that our 

 readers will not forget this as it is 

 an important matter and one that 

 will figure largely in the queen- 

 breeding of the future. 



We have just learned of the death 

 of Mr. F. M. Cheney of Fulton, N. 

 H. He went to Tennessee last 

 spring to take charge of an apiary 

 for H.E. Andrews, and died about 

 the middle of last month of malarial 

 fever. We extend our heartfelt 

 sympathies to mourning friends. 



We regret to learn that Mr. J. 

 T. Wilson's house was burned early 

 OQ the morning of Aug. 5, at Mor- 

 tonsville, Ky. He says that many 

 beekeepers are owing him, and 

 with this calamity he is crippled 

 financially. Those who owe him 

 should at once send him the neces- 

 sary funds to help him in this, his 

 " hour of need." 



An exchange suggests the follow- 

 ing : " Strew tansy around the floor 

 of the honey room or among the 

 hives to rid them of the ants." 



We clip the following from Sci- 

 ence Record." 



— In a recent number of Pflu- 

 ger's Archiv, Dr. K. Mullenhof 

 gives an account of the way in 

 which bees form the honey comb, 

 which isespeciall}' interesting from 

 the fact that by observation of the 

 act, the author arrives at the same 

 results as did Dr. Wyman from a 

 study of the comb, and that the 

 hexagonal structure, so economical 

 of material is not the result of any 

 mathematical instinct on the part 

 of the bee, but rather a mechanical 

 and mathematical necessity arising 

 from the mutual pressure of adja- 

 cent cells. 



