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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL 



Washington, April, 1872. 



All communications and letters of business should 

 be addressed to 



GEO. S. WAGNER, 

 Office of the American Bee Journal, 

 Washington, D. C. 



In the next issue of our Journal we will give the 

 first of the series of unedited letters of Huber. 



The writer of the amusing adventures of the frogs 

 and bees, p. 2o3, has probably drawn somewhat largely 

 npon a vivid imagination ; but we are disposed in the 

 main to credit his story — but we do not believe that 

 the old frog made himself a voluntary martyr for the 

 public good, he only got ahead of the other thieves. 



We feel it due to Mr. T. F. Bingham to give his ar- 

 ticle, by which he attempts to prove by " figures that 

 cannot lie," that black bees are better honey gatherers 

 than Italians. The columns of the Am. B. J ; on this 

 question, as well as all others connected with apicul- 

 ture, will always be oj^en to fair discussion. 



We hope before long to give a monthly summary of 

 the contents of the German, French and Italian Bee 

 Journals, so that our readers may know the course 

 of thought, and progress of invention in apiculture, 

 in all parts of the world. 



Our readers will no doubt rejoice to learn that an 

 end has come to the controversy which of late has 

 filled so many columns of our Journal. Circumstan- 

 ces beyond our control made these exposures neces- 

 sary. We hope now to leave the merits of the matters 

 in dispute to the impartial decision of U. S. District 

 Court. 



We have on hand a number of very excellent com- 

 munications, which it was impossible to get in this 

 number. 



PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED. 



The Rural Alabama. March, 1873. 



J. Cochrau, Havana, 111. Catalogue of Flower and 

 Vegetable Seeds. 



L. Prang & Co., Schem's Universal Statistical 

 Table. 



From James Vick, Rochester, N. Y., a choice variety 

 of Flower and Vegetable Seeds. 



I deeply regret the loss of Mr. Wagner, for 

 though 1 never had the pleasure of personal ac- 

 quaintance, I could but regard him as a high- 

 toned honorable man. And surely the American 



Bee Journal was a model paper. I think it has 

 no peer. Tlie wise discrimination, the high tone, 

 straight forward manner witli which it was con- 

 ducted could but elicit thorough and genuine 

 regard. A. J. Cook. 



Lansing, Mich. 



I once visited Mr. Wagner in York, Peima., 

 just after his first importation of Italian queens, 

 and my measure of the man was just as you 

 have given it in the obituary notice. His con- 

 scientious thoroughness would have caused him 

 to excel in a.iything he might undertake. 



Ekick Parmely. 



New York. 



Your letter informing me of INIr. "Wagner's 

 death is just before me. I cannot tell you how 

 deeply I .sympathize with you in the loss of your 

 friend. One of the American fathers in bee- 

 culture has fallen asleep. After I had learned 

 to know jVIr. "Wagner's peculiar temperament 

 through you I learned to ajipreciate him and to 

 overlook what before I thought a harsh side to 

 his nature. 



I always admired him for his rare attairiments 

 in our beloved science and for his thorough in- 

 dependence of character. No one was so^ emi- 

 nently fitted for the place he so gracefully filled. 

 One of the great men in the theory and practice 

 of apiculture has fallen, and we who have been 

 benefited by his ripe culture should strew his 

 memory with sweet immortelles. 



E. Van Slvke. 



Albans/, iV. Y. 



The last number of the Bee Journal has just 

 reached me, conveying the first tidings of your 

 father's death. It came to me with a shock, 

 for, altliough so advanced in years, his spirit 

 seemed so youthful and eneigetic that I never 

 dreamed of his passing away. His enthusiasm 

 in behalf of bee-culture in the United States 

 was of sucii a noble and pure charactei-, his 

 judgment in these matters so sound, and liis in- 

 fiuence among tlie difierent warring interests 

 (for most of our apiarians seem to partake more 

 or less of the belligerent spirit of their little 

 wards) was so great, that his loss is indeed a 

 public calamity. I liave received the Journal 

 from its first establishment and have watched 

 your father's course with the greatest respect 

 and admiration. T. C. Porter. 



Easton. Fa. 



Mr. Samuel Wagner, editor of the American 

 Bee Jiiurna', died suddenly of apoplexy, at his 

 residence in Washington on the 17th ultimo, at 

 the age of sixty years. Every reader of his 

 paper, who can but have admired his honest, 

 straightforward, independent course as aneditoi-, 

 his hatred of all shams and humbuggery, and his 

 earnest and intelligent devotion to the science of 

 apiculture, will receive this intelligence with 

 profound sorrow. His paper has ever been re- 

 garded as the ablest and most enlightened advo- 

 cate of its specialty in oiu" country, and we hope 

 the demise of Mr. Wagner will not result in its 

 discontinuance. — Maine Farmer. 



