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THE AMERICAN APICULTURIST. 



opposition and have alwa3s been 

 full_y prepared to meet it. So that 

 when Mr. Thomas G. Newman, in 

 the Bee Journal for Oct. 15, strikes 

 the first blow at the " Api," we 

 are not in any way snrprised. The 

 trouble is this. Since we com- 

 menced to publish our journal we 

 have placed over 15,000 sample 

 copies in the hands of as many 

 different beekeepers, and Mr. New- 

 man begins to feel the influence that 

 is being exerted by them ; and rec- 

 ognizing the fact that the Apicul- 

 TDRiST will not die by being let 

 alone, means to crush it as other 

 journals, that have been started for 

 the same object, have been crushed, 

 but we wish to state for the bene- 

 fit of Mr. Newman and others who 

 are watching the progress of the 

 "youthful bee journal of the east," 

 that tlie " Api" has come to stay, 

 and tiiat during the coming season 

 we propose to place sample copies 

 of our journal in the hands of over 

 20,000 more beekeepers. We now 

 have a list of over 10,000 good ad- 

 dresses of beekeepers, and further, 

 we mean to keep at work at the 

 roots of the great cause of apicul- 

 ture, until we unearth and bring 

 to the surface all the evUs that are 

 sapping its life-blood. We do 

 not propose to reply to Mr. 

 Newman here, but shall wait 

 until after the convention at 

 Rochester. 



It is pleasing to us to know that 

 Mr. Newman has been compelled 

 to recognize the "youthful bee 

 journal in the east," he fears, per- 

 haps that it ma}^ live to grow to the 

 stature of manhood, and be entitled 



to a position among the " more 

 aged" of our bee journals. It is the 

 first time that he has recognized us 

 other than when he noticed our first 

 number, and said that it made " a 

 very creditable appearance," and 

 even now he has entirelj^ ignored 

 or forgotten the fact that it has a 

 name or location, but coming years 

 may reveal even that to him. 



Mr. Newman cautions his read- 

 ers about that " youthful bee 

 journal of the east," and states that 

 if they endorse its platform and 

 help to support it, ruin must come 

 to them. It might be well to ask 

 if the National Convention could be 

 left in a much more deplorable 

 condition than at its last session. 

 No reports of the previous meeting 

 were read, and no business of im- 

 portance of any character was en- 

 acted. There may have been a 

 good reason for this, but we fail to 

 see it. Mr. Newman further says, 

 " if you endorse any journal, it 

 should be the one that I (Mr. 

 Newman) publish, but I protest 

 against it." 



There is not a beemaster in 

 America who will not acknowledge 

 that no beekeepers' association in 

 this country has ever been more 

 true and devoted to the cause of 

 apiculture and the interests of the 

 beekeepers, or more just in all its 

 actions than the North Eastern 

 Beekeepers' Association, nor has 

 any other accomplished any more 

 for the cause which it represents ; 

 and will Mr. Newman kindly take 

 the floor and explain (if possible) 

 what he has ever done to merit 

 the support of that association. 



