THE AMERICAN AlUCULTURIST. 



129 



The following slip was taken from a 

 l)oe paper and .sent to the "An" l\v a 

 friisnd. 



iMr. Henry Alley has iei|uestcii us to stop 

 oxchaiigins with l\\c.''- Aplculturist" iwnK will 

 not iiormit us to subscribe to his paper, even 

 tlic)u.i;li we have sent the money twice. The 

 onl) cause to which we can lay the orijrin of 

 this remarkalile decision of Mi'. Alley, is our 

 piihiishiny cmnmenildtioii.i of the so called Al- 

 bino ItaUitn. All we want' is to know wlien 

 Mr. Alley publishes anything relative to our- 

 selves or the .Magazink; and since we are 

 unable to keep our eye on hini by being a 

 sul)scriber to his paper, we would request 

 those lew of our readers who take his paper, 

 to send us any copy, alter they are tlirough 

 with it. containing such matters as we have 

 referred to, and we shall reimburse them for 

 the trouble, and return the paper. 



No, we dill not accept of money from 

 the author.s of the al)ove for subscrip- 

 tion to the Ameuican Apicultukist, 

 Init they forgot to state the fact that I 

 offered to send them the "A pi" for 

 nothing as long as they desired it. The 

 reasons they give why I wished to dis- 

 (•ontinue the erxchange is a falsehood, as 

 I gave my reasons in plain words and 

 they coiiid not misunderstand them. 

 Publishing the article they refer to 

 never gave me any concern ; at anyrate, 

 I have hi no way indicated that it did. 

 My reasons for discontinuing to deal 

 with that paper are the same as a good 

 many other parties give ; and that is 

 abuse, which the editor of the paper 

 from which the above was taken is 

 continually dealing out, and in most 

 cases, to liis l)est friends. They seem 

 to be in a good deal of troul^le because 

 we publish a much l)etter l)ee paper than 

 they do. No one will forget how the 

 young man who edits the New York 

 l)ee paper abused Mr. Locke when he 

 was editor of the "Api." 



Well, we will let it all pass. We do 

 not propose to use our columns to reply 

 to charges of irresponsible parties. 

 This is the first and the last time aj-c 

 shall notice anything of the kind. 

 To show how much the paper referred 

 to values its reputation for truth and 

 veracity we refer our readers to the 

 item "Figures don't lie," as that refers 

 to the same publication the item at tin; 

 head of these remarks was taken from. 



One of their correspondents, a Mr. 

 A])l)ott, .stated in tltc April issue of the 

 pajier in ([uestion that it had reached 

 9,000 copies. To this the editor says : 



"[Mr. Abbott sve are soriy to .sjiy overrati s 

 our circulation. He has in mind our Decem- 

 l)er issue of 0:jOO. We have not reached iioiiii 

 yet, but wc .•irtigeltingthi'rogradually. — Ki). |'' 



Whew 1 lliere is (|uite a difference be- 

 tween If). 000 and 11,000, and so there is 

 cpiite a difference lietween 9,000 and 

 8.000. The "An" will pro])ably get 

 there as soon as our neigh])or. As tiie 

 editor of the paper having tlie ])ig cir- 

 culation (on paper) "cannot keep his 

 eye on us" we will mail him several 

 copies of this issue of the "An." 

 Wliat few of our retidcrs take tlie B. 

 K. M. will please notice. 



Figures don't lie.— The proprie- 

 tors of a lice paper pul)lish(Hl some- 

 where in the state of New York, iiave 

 stated in ))ig red letters that their cir- 

 culalioii IkkI reai'ib'd 15,00(1 copies. 



Dc'S Moines, Jnwn. 



P'lilKXD Al.I.KY : 



III your reply to A. Norton, "Api 

 cnlturist" No. 4, current vohinie, par- 

 graph two, you unintentionally do the 

 invertible hive an injustice. Tlie 

 frames are not spaced "by blocks of 

 wood or blocks of any thing else ;" 

 they are spaced precisely as are Lang- 

 stroth frames, and have the same lat- 

 eral play as do those justly celebrai.ed 

 frames. The frames of tlie invertible 

 hive hang from the centres of thin 

 ends, in rabbets cut into the mating 

 edges in the middle of the hive. 

 When it is necessary to move the 

 frames, the Van Deusen clasps at each 

 end ol the hive are loosened and the 

 upper half of the case may be lifted 

 or taken off entirely, and the frames 

 manipulated, spaced or re -spaced at 

 will. J. M. Shuck. 



[You are correct, frieiul Sliuek. 

 I had not seen the hive for a year, 

 you sent P. H. Morant & Co., till 

 to-day. When your letter caine, 1 

 at once went and examined the 

 hive and found 1 was wrong in the 

 statement made in tlie Api, and iind 

 the impression tliat tlie frames were 

 spaced as statcul in my remarks. 

 We elieerl'ully make tlie correction.] 



