280 



THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



[June, 



THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



Chicago, June, 1873. 



Volume Nine. 



We would remind the readers and friends of 

 The American Bee Journal, that next number 

 commences a new volume, and that it is now a 

 favorable time to pay up old scores, renew sub- 

 scriptions, and canvass for an increased circula- 

 tion. It is not a pleasant thing for an independent 

 mind to ask help of any sort, and especially help 

 of the pecuniary sort, but we feel that inasmuch 

 as Ihis journal is carried on in the interest of the 

 bee-keepers of North America, we have a claim 

 on their co-operation, and as our prosperity it 

 virtually theirs, they will, in aiding us, be 

 in reality benefitting themselves. The great 

 fatality among bees during the past winter has 

 led many to give up keeping bees, and taking bee 

 journals, it is therefore the mere important that 

 all who have faith in apiculture as a great indus- 

 trial interest, or even take pleasure in it as a 

 scientific recreation, should do all in their power 

 to help forward a periodical which has done, and 

 is doing, more than any other on this continent 

 for the development of this useful and entertain- 

 ing pursuit. We cannot be too thankful to many 

 who have been and are exerting themselves to 

 the utmost in extending the circulation of this 

 journal. To each one of our readers we beg to 

 say, " Go thou md do likewise." 



Back Volumes and Numbers. 



Mr. George S. Wagner, having desired to be 

 relieved of the correspondence and mailing, 

 connected with applications for back volumes 

 for the American Bee Journal, we have ob- 

 tained from him the entire stock, and they are 

 now on hand, completely arranged, in our office. 

 We can offer but a single complete set for sale, 

 and for this we ask twenty-five dollars, delivered 

 at the express office. Of Vol. I. we have a 

 large supply, and therefore offer it at the low 

 price of one dollar, sent by mail and post paid. 

 This volume is worth five times its price to any 

 intelligent bee-keeper. It contains a full 

 elucidation of scientific bee-keeping, including 

 the best statement extant, of the celebrated 

 Dzierzon theory. These articles run through 

 eight numbers, and are from the pen of the 



Baron of Berlepsch. We can furnish a few sets 

 of Vols. II. and VI, with the exception of a 

 single number in each, which is missing. Of 

 Vols. Ill, IV, V, and VII, we ean supply a few 

 complete sets, while of the current volume, 

 VIII, we have still quite a number on hand. 

 Ordinary back volumes will be sent on receipt 

 of $1.50 per vol., and single numbers at twenty 

 cents each. Any numbers that fail to reach 

 subscribers by fault of mail, we are at all 

 times ready to send, on application, free of 

 charge. 



Beginners in bee-culture, who desire to read 

 up in the literature of bee-keeping, are earnestly 

 advised to obtain the back volumes now offered. 

 We will send the entire set, which as above ex- 

 plained, will be deficient about three numbers 

 only, and will include the current volume, on 

 receipt of ten dollars, delivering them at the 



Express office in this city. 



♦-♦ 



The Great Patent Suit. 



We learn from Mr. H. C. Cowan, son in-law to 

 Mr. Langstroth, that the suit of Otis vs. King has 

 been set for hearing on the 10th day of June 

 (present month.) 



Mr. King on "Mrs. Tupper's Loss." 



The May number of the Bee-keeper's Journal 

 contains an apologetic and explanatory article, 

 headed " Mrs. Tupper's loss." All of it that is of 

 any concern to us is comprised in the first part 

 of it, which is as follows : 



"Through inadvertence the first proofs of the 

 article in our April number, concerning Mrs. 

 Tupper's loss of bees by fire, contained an error 

 which has furnished one of our contemporaries 

 with material for an u nfavorable notice, injurious 

 to Mrs. Tupper, and prejudicial to our own in- 

 terests. 



" By turning to the article our readers will see 

 that we spoke of Mrs, Tupper as the woman who 

 had done more for apiculune than any other. In 

 the proofs sent to the press it reads the one, in- 

 stead of the woman. We were represented as 

 claiming that Mrs. Tuppei had done more for 

 apiculture than Huber, Berlepsclj, Lautrstroth, 

 Quinby and others. We did not intend to make 

 such an assertion, as our own vanity would for- 

 bid, if nothing else. 



" Our object in sending the advance proofs to 

 publishers, was to secure a notice for Mrs. Tup- 

 per's benefit. We did not ask any one to publish 

 the article entire, but we believed that Mrs. 

 Tupper deserved a favorable notice and needed 

 help, and we have had no cause to change our 

 opinion since. She wrote U us that there was 



