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THE AMERICAN APICULTURIST. 



and that this can be done through 

 an intelligent committee appointed 

 by tlie delegates of an association 

 representing the honey-|)roflncers 

 of the United States. This com- 

 mittee can and should agree upon 

 a scale of prices for both wliite and 

 dark honey in sections, and how 

 the same sliould be graded, and 

 these prices should and would be 

 satisfactory not only to producers, 

 but likewise to consumers. 



The scale of prices thus agreed 

 upon should then be printed in all 

 of the bee-papers, and be kept 

 standing therein until it becomes 

 necessar_y for said committee to 

 change the same ; and all other so- 

 called market reports, prepared by 

 commission men or other parties, 

 should be rigidly excluded not only 

 from the reading, but likewise from 

 the advertising pages. 



The disposal and distribution of 

 honey on the plan herein briefly 

 outlined can be, and has been, 

 ado})ted by individual producers, 

 but by no means so successfully 

 and harmoniously as by and 

 through a protective and cooper- 

 ative association of the leading 

 hone3^-producers. and for that rea- 

 son I am decidedly in favor of or- 

 ganizing as indicated, at the ear- 

 liest practicable moment. 



Having now made public some 

 of my views upon this very impor- 

 tant topic, 1 shall be pleased to 

 listen toothers by way of approval 

 or otherwise. 



St. Charles, III. 



For the American ApicuUurist. 



THE CARES TE WAR TON 

 HIVE. 



James IIkddon. 



Dear Mr. Allky : In order to 

 prevent the creation of what I be- 

 lieve to be an erroneous opinion, I 

 wish to make a few remarks, and 

 will take as a basis for those re- 



marks, the article of "Amateur Ex- 

 pert," whoever that may be, which 

 is to be found upon the first page 

 of the November Apicultuktst. I 

 read along in this article until I 

 come to the last column, and there 

 I find my name mentioned as also 

 the following statement: 



"And with the exception of the 

 screws for compression, there is 

 nothing new in the Heddon that is 

 not to be found in the C'ari-Stevv- 

 ai'ton :" the above referring to 

 hives invented by the persons men- 

 tioned. All this seems to be aimed 

 at invalidating my claims upon my 

 late invention which is becoming so 

 popular that jealousy and financial 

 interests are aroused. Now, Mv. 

 Editor, do you supi)ose as a fair 

 outside judge, that any person who 

 might believe that these Stewarton 

 hives, as pictured in your journal, 

 did really invalidate my claims, 

 would use that hive? Of course 

 they would not. No Ameiican 

 would ever use that hive, and few 

 beekeepers on the British Isles are 

 using it. What do the}^ wish to 

 do? Do they wish to use my hive 

 or some i)i'actical modification of 

 it, and hold up the pictuie as an 

 excuse? Isn't this the same old 

 chestnut that was cracked before 

 the public in Langstroth's time? 

 At the time I invented my divisi- 

 ble brood-chamber, that is, a brood- 

 chamber containing horizontally 

 separable sections, I had never 

 heard of the Stewarton hive ; but 

 afterwards, a gentleman having lit- 

 tle knowledge of patent law, espec- 

 ially that relative to anticipation 

 by foreign inventions, sent me a 

 book containing cuts and full de- 

 scriptions of the arrangements of 

 this iiive, wiiting me at the same 

 time that although he felt sure I 

 knew nothing of it he was still fear- 

 ful that it destroyed apart of the 

 value of my invention. I showed 

 this letter and book to my patent 

 lawyer, who is one of the foremost 

 in the United States, and be 



