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even at the cost of truth. Mr. Editor, some, of the 

 readers of the Journal would doubtless set down 

 my statement above as a mere assertion if I was 

 unable to forward proof. But it happens that I 

 can do so. Enclosed I send you Mr. F.'s letter of 

 July 5th, 1800, with envelope to satisfy you of its 

 genuineness, earnestly requesting you to insert it 

 verbatim : 



" Cedar Rapids, Iowa, July 5, 1869. 



" Adam Grimm, Esq. — Dear Sir : I presume you 

 will recollect shipping me fifteen queens last fall. It 

 being so late I could not tell as to their purity till 

 the brood commenced to hatch this spring. I found 

 this spring that the progeny of three or four was 

 not what I called all right, but 1 have not said any- 

 thing till I had tested them the second time by 

 raising queens, and from three (3) of them I can't 

 raise any good queens, and I am convinced that they 

 are not pure. I have had others examine them and 

 they pronounced them impure, and I hope you will 

 send me three pure and tested queens at once, as I 

 bought them for tested ones. I looked for them to 

 be so, but it appears they are not, and this is three 

 out of nine as I had the misfortune to lose six of 

 the fifteen when I introduced them, and in the 

 winter so that I could not tell what they were, but 

 that is nothing to you. I would say that I do not 

 breed from the fourth queen, as 1 don't think her 

 queens what they ought to be, but I will be satisfied 

 with three. Hoping To hear from you by return 

 mail, I will close. Yours respectfully, 



W. H. Furman." 



And now, dear Editor and readers of the BeeJour- 

 nal, do not think that I write the above statement 

 with the intention of saving my reputation as an 

 Italian queen breeder. A number of friends had 

 already considered it their duty, without my re- 

 quest, to report to the Journal. I have no inten- 

 tion to breed another queen bee for market, only in 

 case I should have more stocks on hand than I con- 

 clude to winter, I might offer for sale the queens 

 those stocks contain in the latter part of the season 

 next year. Hoping that my friend will excuse me for 

 extracting from his letter without his consent, and 

 that you, Mr. Editor, will insert my above short 

 communication as from a party who was, without 

 provocation or good reason attacked in a communi- 

 cation to your valuable paper, I am 



Yours respectfully, A. Grimm. 



Jefferson, Wis., Dec. 28, 1872. 



The Inter-Ocean. 



We beg to call attention to the advertisement of 

 the above newspaper, which appears elsewhere in 

 our columns, and in doing so, clip the following 

 from its daily issue of Jan. 30th, 1873 : 



"OCR RURAL DEPARTMENT. 



In view of the intrinsic importance of the agri- 

 cultural interest and our rapidly increasing circu- 

 lation among the farmers of the Northwest, we 

 have been anxious for some time past to place this 

 department of the Inter-Ocean in the best and 

 most competent hands we could possibly secure for 

 the task. Our editorial corps is this week aug- 

 mented by the addition to it of Rev. W. F. Clarke, 

 a gentleman long connected with the agricultural 



press in Canada, and well known personally and by 

 reputation to many of the leading agriculturists in 

 the United States. Mr. Clarke spent his early 

 days on a new farm, and knows all about ' rough- 

 ing it in the bush.' Though his attention was 

 turned to another profession as his main business, 

 he has always retained his interest in, and his love 

 for, country life, He was for five years editor-in- 

 chief of the Canada Farmer, the only agricultural 

 paper in the Dominion of any account, and both as 

 a writer and speaker on rural topics has won for 

 himself a good name. He attended, as our repre- 

 sentative, the great Farmers' Convention, recently 

 held at Bloomington, also the annual meeting of 

 the Northwestern Dairymen's Association, at White- 

 water, Wisconsin, and his reports of the proceed- 

 ings on those occasions prove that he is at home on 

 subjects connected with husbandry. We may add 

 that Mr. Clarke is President of the North American 

 Bee-keepers' Society, and editor of the American 

 Bee Journal, now published in this city, so that 

 our readers may expect, him, among other things, 

 to tell them 'all about bees.' We confidently an- 

 ticipate that, under his charge, our department of 

 ' Farm, Garden and Home ' will be found all that 

 can be desired." 



The North-Eastern Bee-Keepers' Association 

 j will hold its Third Annual Meeting at the Butter- 

 ■ field House, Utica, N. Y., on the 5th and 6th of 

 February, 1873. 



Questions of importance to bee-keepers will be 

 discussed. All persons sufficiently interested in 

 bees to ask a question or answer one concerning 

 i them are invited to attend. 



Bee-keepers, please prepare reports of the last 

 season's experiments and operations. R,ev. W. F. 

 Clarke, President of the North American Bee-Keep- 

 ers' Society is expected to be present. 



M. Quinbt, J. H. Nellis, 



President. Secretary. 



Our Beception. 



Last month we published a number of extracts 

 from letters of leading apiarians, endorsing the 

 proposed transfer of the American Bee Journal. 

 Since the appearance of the January number, we 

 received a host of similar communications. At first 

 we proposed to publish extracts from all of them in 

 our February issue, but they came so thick and fast 

 that we soon found it would be quite impracticable 

 to do so. That others may share to some extent the 

 gratification these letters have yielded us, we insert 

 one of the most enthusiastic in full, together with 

 extracts from several others, assuring all who 

 have sent us kind greetings and good wishes, that 

 their welcome epistles are not only a source of much 

 pleasure, but also of stimulation and encourgement 

 in the enterprise we have undertaken: 



FROM GEORGE S. S1LSHY, WINTERPOR'J', MAINE. 



" Hurrah ! — The arrival of the January number 

 of the American Bi:e Journal to-day was greeted 



