1894 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



417 



not come any nearer to the real point at issue, 

 because of the malicious prejudice growing out 

 of your misunderstanding or misrepresenting 

 the true state of affairs. This is the way it 

 seems to me. Suppose we discuss the real 

 point at issu(\ as to what is best to do and not 

 to do, leaving personal allusions out of the case 

 for a while, or, at least, placing them on an- 

 other page. 



Finally. sinc(^ you have begun publishing 

 ■contributed evil words concerning me. are you 

 willing to publish several letters I have, stat- 

 ing, with glove< off. what the writers think of 

 you? If you will open a column for innuen- 

 does against you and me, you may come to the 

 conclusion that both may be loved for the ene- 

 mies we have made. James Heddon. 



Dowagiac, Mich., Apr. ;2. 



|The following is a copy of an aflidavit sent 

 us at the same time. — Ed.] 



I riiarles Heddon, son of James Heddon, do here- 

 by swear tliat I took from tlie liives in my father's 

 two bee-yards, and in his lioney-housc did extract 

 all of the surplus honov inoduccd in said yards, 

 during- the .years 189:! and IS'.W; and, f urtlier, that I 

 put all of the said lioncy into sixty-pound l)oxed tin 

 cans, and superintended tlie shippin"- of nearly all 

 of said honey. Tliat I personally tools from the 

 hives, e.xtracted, pliiced in cans, and slnj^ped all of 

 the 18 cans of honey sent to Mr. Georg-e G. Willard, 

 of Cleveland, Ohio, during 1893, and to my certain 

 knowledg-e all of said honey was free f lom any 

 adulteration. Charles Heddon. 



Suhscrihed and sworn to before me tins -tth day of 

 April, A. D. 1894. Abner M. Moon, 



Justice of the Peace in and for Cass County. 



[In addition to this we expect to allow Mr. 

 Heddon reasonable space for reply to the two 

 editorials — one on page 335 and the other on 

 page 383, in next issue. If we attach no foot- 

 note this will give Mr. Heddon the " last say." 

 and certainly all that one could ask for. We 

 desire that Mr. Heddon shall have a full chance 

 to vindicate himself, and toward this end we 

 publish a letter received that will explain it- 

 self.— Ed.] 



One year apo this last winter my stflck of extract- 

 ed honey gave out. So I sent an order to Heddon 

 for two cans of his amtjer honey. I want to say 

 that I never had any honey that g'ave better satis- 

 faction than this. My customers were well pleased 

 with it, and they had been using' clover and bass- 

 wood lioney fronimy own bees. Ezra G. Smith. 



Manchester, N. Y., May 3. 



[Here is another which we also take pleasure 

 in inserting here, even though it speaks more 

 highly of Mr. Heddou's honey than of our 

 own. — Ed.] 



Frund Root:— I desire to say to your reader.s that 

 I have purchased honey from Jas. Heddon, at differ- 

 t>nt times during- the past eig-ht years, and 1 have 

 never produced nor seen a superior article of ex- 

 tracted honey, nor sold any that g-ave better satis- 

 faction to my customers. Perhaps you may re- 

 member that I have purchased from you extracted 

 honej- of the same g-rade, and at the same price, and 

 truth compels me to saj that, accoi-ding- to my 

 taste, and that of my customers as well, Mr. Hed- 

 don's is very much better. I am perfectly satisfied 

 that the honey from each of you was pure: but I 

 am also certain that the differentiation Mr. Heddon 

 speaks of in his article is not oidy true but grreatly 

 in favor of his locality. L. B. Bell. 



Brecksville, O. 



HONEY- CROP IN CALIFORNIA A FAILURE. 



By W.A. Pryal. 



The honey crop in this State— that is, in the 

 southern portion — is doomed to nothingness 

 this year. There is evidently going to be an 

 entire failure. I have advice*; from there that 



the bees will soon commence to starve, unless 

 they are fed. This will be rather unprofitable, 

 since the bee-keepers got such a low price for 

 their honey last year. Up this way there is 

 some chance of getting an average crop; be- 

 sides, it will be of better quality than it usually 

 is. I think the time is not far distant when the 

 upper portion of this State will be the bee 

 sectlim. There is never a failure of the rainfall 

 in many of the northern counties. If you ever 

 read the admirable articles .John Muir. who 

 lives in the adjoining county, had in the Cen- 

 tury some 1:1 velars ago, you will remember that 

 he likened the vast extent of honey-flora in 

 some of the northern counties, especially, I be- 

 lieve, in Shasta, to a grand bee-garden. Har- 

 bison, some thirty odd years ago, predicted that 

 the mountain regions of this Slate would be 

 the great honey-yielding sections. At that 

 time the honey or sage districts of the south 

 had not been discovered. While the largest 

 yields may be obtained in the lower counties, 

 still, one year with another, the northern 

 counties will, I think, outdo those at the other 

 end of the State. I saw some very fine honey 

 frotn Shasta County at the midwinter fair. 

 Twenty or so years ago, the honey from the 

 Sacramento Valley was the leading honey of 

 tlie State. I notice that it is again coming to 

 the front. There is a sure crop along the river 

 every year, as the bees gather the nectar from 

 the countless acres of overflowed land along 

 the rivers and sloughs. Most of this honey is 

 rather dark; but then, it is of good flavor, and 

 in a dry year it brings more than the beautiful 

 white sage honey does in a year of plenty, like 

 last year, for instance. 

 North Temescal, Cal, 



THE STEPHENS FRAME -SPACER. 



SOMETHING THAT CAN BE ATTACHED TO OI.D- 

 STYLE FRAMES AI^READY IN USE. 



By Oeoruc W. Stephens. 



I have been requested by the editor of Glean- 

 ings to write an ai'ticle for publication to ac- 

 company his illustrations descriptive of my 

 new and improved spacer for hanging frames. 

 The illustrations show the device in detail, and 

 I hardly think a written description would add 

 much information, because I imagine any one 

 will see at a glance just what they are and what 

 they are for. 



Some years ago. when I began to keep bees, I 

 used loose hanging frames, and I found it 

 almost impossible to get straight combs, from 



