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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



[Feb. 



delivered in their city in securely waxed barrels. 

 Barrels to be returned in good order when emptied. 



Mr. W. H. Shane, Chatham Center, Medina 

 Co., 0., has 235 lbs. candied basswood honey that 

 he will sell for 20c. 



Mr. J. Pratt, Mallet Creek, Medina Co., 0., 

 has 1,000 lbs. nice extracted honey which he offers 

 at 18c. 



If any one has honey they will sell less than 

 the latter price, we will publish it in our next 

 gratis ; aud if any one will pay more than Messrs. 

 Barber & Stout, we will also publish their offer. 

 Don't write to us, but write to the parties men- 

 tioned ; and we would suggest that samples of 

 honey may be sent cheaply by mail in small tin 

 boxes, such as watch movements come in, to be had 

 of any jeweler. Make the joint tight with melted 

 wax. Good honey, we believe, is always candied 

 at this season of the year, or should be at least, 

 and it is easily shipped in this state, and will keep 

 good any number of years, so that the grocers 

 need be in no fear of losses in that direction. If 

 some one dealer in every town would advertise 

 good honey for sale the year round, could all of 

 our bee keepers supply the demand, even if retailed 

 at 25c ? 



[For American Bee Journal. 



The December Journal. 



The first object that attracts our attention this 

 month is Novice "pitching in" as usual, only he's 

 got his coat off this time. We pass his article by 

 without comment, except the last paragraph, for 

 we really fear that we shall not. have time to say 

 what we wish to unless we do. You meant us, did 

 you not, friend Novice, while you were talking to 

 " Mr. Burd," on page 122. We take it for granted 

 that you did, although that is not exactly our 

 name. 



Now, Mr. Editor, we very much dislike this 

 "personal" style of writing which some of your 

 correspondents seem to glory in. We have ever 

 tried to refrain from speaking of any one in print, 

 unless we had a word of commendation for them. 

 What measure of success has attended our efforts 

 we leave our articles to answer for themselves. But 

 it seems that Novice has determined to try his skill 

 in compelling us to deviate from this rule, and if 

 you will pardon us, Mr. Editor, for making this 

 article an exception, we will talk to Novice a few 

 moments. He first expresses astonishment at 

 what we said in a former Journal, but we are not 

 surprised a particle at what he says in reply, for 

 it is only a supplement of very many of his arti- 

 cles in the back numbers of this Journal. As he 

 has gone outside of these columns to refer to that 

 which has no bearing whatever upon the subject 

 under consideration, we presume there are many 

 of our readers who do not comprehend what he is 

 driving at, so we will present "our idea" of this 

 subject, taken from Novice's standpoint. After 

 reading our article in October number of the 

 Journal, we hear him soliloquizing somewhat after 

 the following fashion : " Well now aint that too 

 bad. After I had spent so much time in getting 

 the best hive in tlie universe to be told that its not 

 as good as his hive. You see I wanted to fill my 



pocket from the hard cash I had so fondly antici- 

 pated that it would bring me — it would be for the 

 general good of fellow bee-keepers too, you know. 

 Now some stringent method must be employed to 

 stop this business of comments. ( Here he doffs 

 his coat.) Attention all. Here is the way we 

 propose to do it. Listen. We'll give him such a 

 hit that will lay him out so completely hors de 

 combat that he will never dare to have the pre- 

 sumption to say anything more hereafter. (He 

 drops the Journal.) So there, I'll fix him yet. 

 I'll kind o' express surprise, and leave the readers 

 of the Journal to infer that he has given my 

 ' ideas ' to the world as ' his own.' (Novice 

 sweats profusely.) There, now, that's as good a 

 way as I can possibly get out of a tight place this 

 time. (Breathes more freely.) So, here goes. I 

 have vanquished Quinby from the field aforetime, 

 and silenced Gallup's guns, too, and now I'll anni- 

 hilate Burch. Wont that be jolly." 



Kind reader, "did you ever." As Novice has 

 plainly hinted that we have purloined his language 

 by giving it to the world as our "own ideas," we 

 hereby challenge him to substantiate that infer- 

 ence. It is true that we have written for the 

 press somewhat extensively, but we defy Novice to 

 produce a single sentence from an article of ours 

 where we have knowingly purloined the language 

 of others by giving it as our "own ideas." 



Talk about our explaining that (three column) 

 bee hive. Why, friend Novice, did you not know 

 that we gave a description of it to the world, "and 

 the rest of mankind," too, nearly a year before you 

 did? Pray tell us, Novice, where did you get your 

 "ideas" concerning it? 



When you have answered, fairly and candidly, 

 our questions in this and the back numbers of the 

 Journal, we will inform you with much pleasure 

 of the many essential things which our hive em- 

 bodies that makes it so much more desirable to 

 the apiarian than yours. 



Novice has told us that he is desirous that "our 

 large family" should live in peace with each other. 

 Yet who has been more instrumental in stirring 

 up discord by the indiscriminate manner in which 

 he has " pitched into" everybody and everything 

 that did not coincide with his "own ideas." He 

 complains that other people use these columns for 

 the purpose of selling their patent rights. But 

 who has more often used "the large liberty our 

 editor so generously allows" for the purpose of 

 "extolling patent hives," and who has more care- 

 fully and "cunningly" worded their articles with 

 a view to create a demand for their own wares, 

 and this, too, under the guise of "good of fellow 

 bee-keepers." Will he who has so strenuously in- 

 sisted that all progress in bee-culture is no pro- 

 gress at all unless it has its origin in that two 

 story "Simplicity (Langstroth) Bee Hive," and 

 culminated in that Apple-Paring-Geared, Station- 

 ary, Bung-IIole, Honey Extractor, tell us ? 

 "0, consistency, thou art," etc. 



We wonder if friend Alley supposed that Novice 

 would not "pile" his Bay State hive in the same 

 manner that he has all other "naughty" things? 

 Who does not know that the best hive in the 

 universe would not yield an ounce of box honey in 

 any locality unless it was properly managed? 



