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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



Officious Meddlesomeness! 



" It is an honor for ii man to cease from strife; 

 tut every fool will be meddling." — Prov. XX. 3. 



Whether from malice aforethought, of- 

 ficious intermeddling, or inexcusable 

 blundering, it matters not; but some 

 idiotic -wise-acre has imposed upon the 

 Register., published at Des Moines, Iowa, 

 the residence of Mrs. E. S. Tupper, by get- 

 ting the following paragraph inserted in 

 its columns: 



"The name of Mrs. E. S. Tupper does not ap- 

 pear any more as either editor or correspondent of 

 the American Bee Journal," 



And all through the state, the diminu- 

 tive political luminaries that revolve 

 around the Register, as reflectors of its 

 political light, promptly copied the item, 

 without caring to inquire whether it was 

 a malicious statement, calculated to in- 

 jure the party named, or not. 



Mrs. Tupper has been engaged as one 

 of the editors of The American Bee 

 JotJRNAL during the past year, and is 

 still acting in that capacity. Quite a 

 number of articles from her pen appear 

 in this issue, as all observing persons will 

 readily perceive. 



Since The American Bee Journal 

 came into our hands, as publisher, we 

 have engaged something like a score of 

 eminent apiarians for editorial and other 

 work on its pages, many of whom are as 

 modest and unassuming as they are prac- 

 tical and scientific, and do not wish us to 

 parade their names as editors or regular 

 correspondents — thinking that the daz- 

 zling glory surrounding the scarlet tripod 

 of the old and reliable American Bee 

 Journal may abstract their attention 

 from their private business, or mix it up 

 in some unpleasant way with the Jour- 

 nal. 



Every one knows that there are many 

 who delight in picking a quarrel with 

 editors to serve selfish purposes, and often 

 either the journal they edit, or the busi- 

 ness they follow, sufl'er from such officious 

 interference of selfish and meddlesome 

 persons. 



To avoid all this, we now decide to have 

 the editorial columns of The American 

 Bee Journal impersonal. This plan 

 has been for years adopted by nearly all 

 the first-class publications of the world. 



Who knows the name of the writer of 

 any article in the London Times or any of 

 the great metropolitan sheets of this 

 country? The articles themselves are 

 taken upon their merits, and the paper 

 in which they appear is alone responsible 

 for their sentiments. 



In future, as in the past, we shall pro- 

 cure mature brain productions for the 

 editorial columns of The American Bee 

 Journal without reference to cost, and 

 thus serve our patrons with the best the 

 world affords in the line of apicultural 

 research and experience. 



Wise-acre correspondents of country 

 papers are hereby cautioned against fool- 

 ish remarks concerning The American 

 Bee Journal. If they desire to make 

 personal mention of it, they may truth- 

 fully say that it stands without a success- 

 ful rival in the wide world ; that it circu- 

 lates in every state and territory of the 

 Union, in all the Canadas, Great Britain, 

 and the continental countries of Europe, 

 as well as South America and Australia ; 

 that its editors and correspondents com- 

 prise scientific and practical apiarians 

 residing in almost every clime under 

 heaven, and number many hundreds, 

 while its students and votaries swell that 

 number to many thousands. 



Thomas G. Newman, Publisher. 



Bee Enemies. 



Marshfield, Mo., June 30, 1875. 

 Mrs. Tupper: Enclosed find a fly 

 which kills bees. Some of the citi- 

 zens call it Fly Catcher; others call 

 it Snake Feeder. I don't know what 

 it is, but I know it catches bees and 

 kills them, and send it to you with the 

 hope that you can inform me what it is 

 and how to destroy it. There are many 

 of its kind in this part of the state, and 

 unless I find some more successful mode 

 of destroying it than I have yet, it will 

 greatly hinder my increase of bees. 



J. Stuart. 



We referred Mr. Stuart's letter and 

 specimen to Professor C. E. Bessey, Pro- 

 fessor of Botany at the State Agricultural 

 College, at Ames, Iowa. The following 

 is his reply : 



