1873.] 



THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



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to receive another queen from the breeder he dealt 

 with, but feels rather discouraged at the result of 

 his f 6 investment, and, on the whole, thinks he 

 prefers the black bees. We have no doubt the cross 

 colony were hybrids. Most people who have had 

 any experience in Italianizing have had just such 

 stocks. But that pure-bred Italians are more 

 pacific in disposition than the common black, is a 

 well-established fact in apiculture. 



Hints to Inexperienced Bee-Keepers. — la re- 

 sponse to requests from several correspondents, we 

 insert in our present issue some articles adapted to 

 beginners in bee-culture. They were written for the 

 Canada Farmer, a journal we formerly edited, and to 

 which we still contribute, but will be just as useful 

 to the tyro as though they were indited expressly 

 for these columns. 



Extravagant Praise Toned Down. 



In our article last month on Mr. King's appeal in 

 behalf of Mrs. Tupper, we quoted a piece of over- 

 done eulogy just as it appeared in the printed slip 

 sent in advance, and which we declined to publish. 

 It read "one to whom apiculture is more deeply 

 indebted than any other." But lo ! when the 

 journals appeared, the superlative laudation was 

 wondrously modified, and the sentence read thus : 

 "the woman who has done more to advance the 

 cause of apiculture, than any other who ever lived." 

 We fear lest some who have read the appeal as ulti- 

 mately published by Mr. King, may have supposed 

 that we mis-quoted the passage. The fact we have 

 stated will show that we did not. 



The British Bee Journal. 



We are indebted to the courtesy of Mr. R. Syming- 

 ton, of Oxenden, Market Harborough, England, for 

 a prospectus of a new apicultural monthly, just 

 •commenced, and entitled "The British Bee Journal 

 and Bee- Keepers' Adviser." It consists of sixteen 

 imperial quarto pages, is printed on toned paper, 

 from an entirely new fount of type, and embraces 

 in its design, illustrations of the highest character. 

 The subscription price is ten shillings and six pence 

 sterling, about $3.50 American money. Correspon- 

 dence and remittances must be addressed to Mr. C. 

 N. Abbott, Bee-Master, Hanwell, W., England. 



The Bee-Keepers of North America, will, we are 

 sure, hail, as we do, this indication of apicultural 

 progress in Britain, and join with us in wishing the 

 new enterprise great success. We hope also, that 

 -some, at least, among them, will indulge in the 



luxury of subscribing for the British Bee Journal. 

 Those wishing to do so, can purchase sterling 

 exchange to the requisite amount of some banking- 

 house, or buy an international Post Office Money 

 Order. 



Mrs. Tupper's Loss. 



We have received letters from leading bee-keepers, 

 and highly responsible parties, entirely approving 

 and sustaining the ground we assumed last month 

 concerning this affair. Further information compels 

 us to take back the admission that Mrs. Tupper may 

 have sustained even a "trifling" loss. On the 

 contrary, we now believe that the fire was a gain to 

 her, and that the insurance amounted to more 

 money than any experienced bee-keeper would have 

 given for her whole apiary when it went into winter 

 quarters, including the choice stocks with imported 

 queens buried out-of-doors, and the unburnt hives 

 that are still on hand. Under these circumstances, 

 a pathetic appeal for aid from the public, such as 

 appeared in Mr. King's journals for last month, 

 should be frowned down by respectable journalists 

 and honest bee-keepers all over the land. 



Rev. L. L. Langstroth. 



We have received a private letter from the above 

 named gentleman, dated April 25th, 1873, part of 

 which we take the liberty of publishing, as it relates 

 to matters of general and public interest: 



" It was my intention to furnish something for 

 your May number, but the pressure upon my time 

 would not permit. I fear the public will think me 

 very remiss in not having long before this prepared 

 an obituary notice of my dear friend, Mr. Colvin. 

 At the time of his death I was so prostrated in health 

 that I attended to no business of any kind whatever. 

 Indeed a month or more elapsed before I even 

 learned that he was dead. Then followed the illness 

 and death of my dear wife, and shortly after her 

 funeral I was obliged to make a journey east. The 

 ill health of Mr. Otis preventing him from doing any- 

 thing further in his suit against Mr. King, I was at 

 once compelled to take the laboring oar, or have the 

 case postponed till another season, and perhaps 

 indefinitely, You can well understand, after all the 

 pledges that have been given to the public that this 

 suit should be pressed to a decision, my first duty 

 was to give it the necessary attention, even to the 

 neglect of my private affairs. No one who knew 

 Mr. Colvin and the relations between us will ever 

 imagine that I could neglect so obvious a duty as to 

 give fitting expression to his worth as a man and his 

 earnest service to the bee-keeping public ; and as 

 soon as possible, if life and health are spared, I shall 

 discharge this sacred duty. I hope that the dear 

 Journal will prosper more and more. 



" My bees are all doing well. The prospect now 

 is that the suit will be tried in June next, before 



