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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



Chicago, March, 1873. 



Mr. Langstroth's Patent and Suit 



We receive a number of letters inquiring whether 

 Mr. Langstroth's patent is to be extended, and 

 whether the suit is given up. The best reply to 

 such questions will be to quote the following pas- 

 sage from a recent letter of Mr. Langstroth' s : "I 

 have made no application for an extension of my 

 patent, and it will soon be public property. Sick- 

 ness, etc., has caused great delay in the prosecution 

 of the suit, but it is not given up, and I am confident 

 that the verdict will sustain my patent." 



More Unavoidable Delay 



We must still crave an exercise of patience on the 

 part of our readers and correspondents. February 

 was a short month, it generally is ; and half of it 

 was consumed in an unavoidable visit to Canada, to 

 settle up our affairs. The consequence is, that we 

 are in arrears with correspondence, and late in 

 getting out the March issue. We find that owing 

 to a glut of mail matter, caused by simultaneous 

 arrival of storm bound trains, our February number 

 lay some days in the Chicago Postoffice. When 

 there is a plethora of mail matter, periodicals must 

 wait. Letters, dailies, and weeklies have the right 

 of way. We suppose this is proper enough ; but 

 of course it isn't pleasant for our subscribers to 

 wait, nor for us to get letters asking " Why doesn't 

 my Journal come?" or "Pray let me know what 

 time in the month I may look for my Journal?" 



Too Kind! 



Our friends are pouring in their favors in the 

 way of communications at such a rate that we are 

 bewildered and overwhelmed. Gallup, for example, 

 took such a fit of writing, that on one day we got no 

 less than ten separate communications from him! 

 A few days afterward he wrote, saying, "I suppose 

 you received my shower of articles." A " shower!" 

 It was a storm, a hurricane, a perfect tornado. We 

 shut the hatchways, put on the tarpaulins, and set 

 the pumps at work, but the good old A. B. J. hasn't 

 righted herself yet. We have hopes, however, that 

 she will, in time. 



Addresses. 



Correspondents are particularly requested to be 

 careful in giving their addresses in full, including 

 county and state. In several instances, we are 



unable to rectify our books and lists, for want of 

 exact directions. In one instance, the opposite 

 mistake has been made. We have received $2.00 

 from Evansville, Wis., without the sender's name. 

 Probably, however, we shall soon have a letter ask- 

 ing if we got that $2.00, for we find many people 

 are in such a hurry to know that their money is 

 safe that they cannot wait until the next issue for 

 the acknowledgment of it. It would save us con- 

 siderable annoyance, if we could acknowledge 

 receipt of monies by telegraph. 



A Good Bee-Feeder. 



Bee-keepers in want of a cheap, handy, effective 

 bee-feeder, will find one advertised in our present 

 issue by Mr. C C. VanDeusen, of Sprout Brook, 

 N. Y. We used it last season in our apiary, and 

 liked it much. 



To Canadian Bee-Keepers. 



Canadian bee-keepers who receive a specimen 

 copy of the American Bee Journal and desire to 

 subscribe for it, will, until further notice, send 

 their orders and remittances to W. F. Clarke,. 

 Guelph, Ontario. 



S^" The article on "Spontaneous Generation 

 and Parthenogenesis," which occupies the first 

 place in the present number will well repay a most 

 attentive perusal. 



fi^^The advertisements of Will. R. King and 

 others were too late for this month's Journal, and 

 we earnestly request our advertising patrons to 

 send their favors in good season for the April 

 number. 



S^° " Bees and their Management," by Mrs. E. 

 S. Tupper, is an excellent little manual for begin- 

 ners in bee-keeping. See advertisement. 

 _♦- 



J^~Mr. A. C. Atwood, Vanneck, Ontario, Sec- 

 retary of the Ontario Bee-Keepers' Association, has 

 bought out the interest of Mr. J. H. Thomas, in the 

 Thomas hive, the Canadian Bee-Keepers' Guide, etc., 

 and expects to expand his bee business considerably 

 the coming season. His advertisement will appear 

 in our April issue. 



Death of Mrs. Langstroth. 



The numerous friends of Rev. L. L. Langstroth 

 will be pained to learn that he has recently been 

 sorely afflicted in the sickness and death of his 

 estimable wife. In a private letter, dated Feb. 1 T 

 Mr. L. says of his deceased companion : " She 

 had an illness of only ten days, and we buried her 



