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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



[May, 



the mother of invention, I suppose he will in- 

 vent some dollar machine to prevent such a waste 

 of honey this coming season. Since his illus- 

 trations in the April number, backed by some 

 thirty witnesses, I am almost sorry for what I 

 said at the convention. In the Iowa Homestead 

 of January 12th, he says it would take too much 

 space to give a full description of his hive. So 

 I suppose he is baiting for the dollars of the 

 Novices of Iowa. 



Gallup's blowing Grimm doesn't suit me. After 

 stating that he had received numerous letters 

 from parties complaining of Grimm's queens, 

 he goes on to eulogize Mr. Grimm and his queens. 

 I have also received a great many letters, and 

 seen parties personally who have made com- 

 plaint of Grimm's queens. I myself have re- 

 ceived twenty-one tested queens (so he said) 

 from Mr. Grimm, and not one proved to be what 

 1 considered pure. And if Mr. Gallup breeds 

 from such queens, no wonder he has to puff them 

 through the papers. Breeders and managers of 

 large apiaries know that a man cannot succeed 

 in keeping his stocks pure with the amount of 

 labor Mr. Grimm reports to the department of ag- 

 riculture, as used in carrying on his apiary. To 

 affirm that his queens are pure, Gallup refers to 

 one " Livchf (a new beginner). Would he, 

 "a new beginner," be considered a good judge 

 of purity ? Then he insults every honest apia- 

 rian in America by saying to Mr. Grimm that all 

 that is necessary to get high colored queens, is 

 to cross his Italians with black drones, and 

 then breed back to Italians. The brightest 

 colored queens I ever received, I got from Mr. 

 Langstroth, "and they proved the best I ever 

 had." Do you suppose he got them in this 

 way? He says : " Now, Mr. Editor, don't for a 

 moment suppose Mr. Grimm sent these queens to 

 bribe us, for a puff," Why Gallup, you thought 

 you could do enough in this way to pay for tlie 

 right to use the Langstroth hive, but I couldn't 

 see it. 



That hive of Gallup's, of which we have heard 

 so much. What is there of it ? Gallup inquires 

 of himself, what have I done that all these 

 donkeys are braying at me so ? Why, I only 

 made a hive large enough to liold twentj'-six 

 frames, and another large enough to hold thirty- 

 two frames, and another large enough to hold 

 tifty-two frames. Why couldn't some one have 

 thought of that before ? Now, says he, I will 

 cook up some hash for them that will beat 

 them all. 1 will cause the Linden to be so laden 

 with honey, that my hive will make such a large 

 return, that they will all be glad to send in 

 their dollar and stop their braying. And I will 

 rear a queen that will spread herself from Maine 

 to Texas, and lay a swarm of bees every day. 

 Oh ! what a great bug am I ! 



W. H. FURMAN. 



Cedar Rapids, loion, April 16, 1872. 



"It may, however, be asked — if the truth on 

 this highest of sciences has indeed been discov- 

 ered, how is it that mankind have not hailed it 

 with a burst of enthusia.stic welcome? that when 

 it has been now for seven years before the world, 

 it is as yet so little known ? What, howevei", 

 is the reception ever accorded to a great and 

 fundamental truth? Is it not, that at first, it 

 is simply neglected because unrecognized? A 

 few earnest minds, indeed, perceive and embrace 

 it heartily ; but the majority brush past it, so 

 to speak, unconscious of its presence. When 

 by degrees it makes way and gains for itself a 

 hearing, it is met by a storm of opposition. 

 Some minds simply dislike what is new ; others 

 hate to be disturbed in their ordinary modes of 

 thought; the self-love of some is wounded by find- 

 ing that they know nearly nothing of what has 

 been their life-long study, and they are unwil- 

 ling to submit to become learners where they 

 have so long been teachers ; while others again 

 find their Interests or their influence imper- 

 illed by the new idea. In the darker ages of 

 the world's history, persecution, imprisonment, 

 or death, was commonlj^ the reward of the dis- 

 coverer ; now it is simply opposition or misrep- 

 resentation, when not even calumny. When, 

 at length, its opposers are unable to resist the 

 evidence presented of its truth, they next turn 

 round and say : " Well, granted that it is so, 

 this is not new ; it is found in the images of 

 such or such an author, ancient or modern. 

 And true it is, that those who now in the full 

 light of a truth look back to the earlier ages in 

 search for it, will often detect its first faint 

 glimmerings in the works of those who were 

 utterly unconscious of the scope of the idea that 

 had for a moment flashed across their minds, as 

 quickly disappearing, and leaving the darkness 

 as complete as it had been before. At length, 

 however, the time arrives when the new truth 

 finds its i)lace in the intelligence of the age ; it 

 is discussed in philosophical works, set forth in 

 elementary treatises, and finally is adopted as the 

 basis of public instruction, does its discoverer 

 at length meet with the honor due ? Rarely, even 

 then. Few know the source whence the idea 

 has been derived. Ask them, and they will 

 answer : "I never thought otherwise ; I learned 

 the theory at college ; or I derived it from such 

 or such a work." 



(Extract from Kate McKean's Preface to her 

 Manual of Social Science, condeased from the writ- 

 ings of H. 0. Carey, LL. D.) 



Nuclei formed from Italian bees, are not as 

 easily discouraged as those from black bees. 

 The latter are much more inclined to desert 

 their hives, to ^^ Bkedadlle.'" 



Sometimes, as well in summer as winter, 

 the bees take pleasure to play abroad before 

 the hive (specially those that are in good i^light) 

 flying in and out, and about, so thick, and so 

 earnestly, as if they were swarming or fighting : 

 when indeed it is only to solace themselves ; and 

 this chiefly in warm weather, after they have 

 been long kept in.— Butler. 



Those that by their lightness you perceive to 

 lack honey, you may now save by feeding, or 

 driving them into others that have store. — But- 

 ler. 



