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THE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER. 



February 



Mr. Editor. — Allow me to make a 

 correction, explanation, or whatever 

 may be necessary, to straighten out a 

 a matter about which two paragraphs 

 have appeared in A. B. K. The South- 

 land Queen printed a series of lessons 

 upon which the editor of Gleanings 

 commented favorably, evidently un- 

 derstanding them to be original mat- 

 ter. I corrected him by saying they 

 were copied from the American Bee 

 Journal, Then he understood that 

 they were copied without credit, and 

 said, "This is a surprise. We turn 

 to the Atchleys for a reply to this 

 charge." I replied that there was no 

 charge against the Atchleys in what I 

 had said, and that they had acknow- 

 ledged the source of the lessons, only 

 I wanted to correct him in crediting 

 to one paper what belonged to another. 



Now you have the whole thing in a 

 nutshell, and you will see that 1 have 

 never made any charge whatever 

 against the Atchleys, and I'm wonder- 

 ing just a little where you gel any 

 authority for saying that I charged 

 them with "filching" from the A. B. J. 

 The only charge that can be made 

 against them in the matter is careless- 

 ness in not crediting each time when 

 copying, for in one number no credit 

 was given, and that number being the 

 one upon which the editor of Gleanings 

 commented, led him into the mistake 

 of supposing that the matter was 

 printed as original, a mistake that 

 was entirely excusable on his part. 



But you will see that until the present 

 moment I never made even this much 

 of a charge, merely saying the articles 

 were copied. C. C. Miller. 



Marengo, 111., Jan, 15, 1896. 



[We are very glad to be " set to 

 rights " on the matter, and that the 

 Atchleys are clear from all blame. 

 The trouble seems to have been with 

 the editor of Gleanings. It was from 

 Gleanings that we got the idea that 

 the articles were " filched" and owing 

 to the close acquaintance between Dr. 

 Miller and the editor of Gleanings we 

 took it as a matter of fact that the 

 remarks of the latter were absolutely 

 authentic. — Ed.] 



W. T. Falconer Man'f'g. Co., 

 Jamestown, N. Y. — Gentlemen : Your 

 favor of Jan. 6th received today. 

 Please find enclosed Post-oflice Order 



for to pay for our supplies. We 



could not be any better satisfied with 

 our supplies received from you last 

 year and no doubt these will be the 

 same. Yours, Loan Bros. 



Editor Am. Bee Keeper. — Dear 

 Sir: My subscription to the "Bee 

 Keeper " expired with the close of 

 '95, but please enroll me for 1896^and 

 I will pay you when ordering my sup- 

 plies. I am not discouraged in bee 

 keeping, although last summer was a 

 partial failure. The cold wave in 

 May prevented increase, therefore I 

 have new hives empty. I trust the 

 future will be brighter. Although I 

 live in a section destitute of basswood 

 yet I managed to secure from 22 hives 

 one thousand one pound sections of 

 fall honey, principally from buck- 

 wheat, and my bees were in good con- 

 dition for wintering. They are win- 



