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THE AMERICAN APICULTURIST. 



same colony and not receive a sting. 

 Never persist in opening and removing 

 the combs from a hive if the bees show 

 a dis])Osition to fight, but let them 

 remain quiet for an hour, then try again. 



A BUNDLK OF QUERIICS. 



Query No. 509. — What kind of bee 

 is the Punic? 



Reply. — According to a Hallam^hire 

 beekeeper the Punic bee comes from 

 north Africa. It is dark in color, and, 

 /ro;n our limited experience of it, is a 

 good laorker and a prolific sort. JVe 

 shall soon know more of this bee, as 

 several persons are trying it. 



The aljove is from the Beekeeper's 

 Record, June, 1890. The word? in 

 italics it is understood are by one of 

 the editors (Mr. Cowan or Cair) of the 

 British Bee Journal. Since the above 

 query was published in the B. B. J. 

 the editors have denied that they know 

 anything about such bees as Panics. 

 Just at present the Api is not permitted 

 to give all the information and facts it 

 has bearing on this ];oint. 



Had the editor of the American. Bee 

 Journal noticed the above query and 

 reply thereto no doubt his opinion as 

 given \\\ a foot-note to an article by T. 

 W. Cowan, in a recent issue of that pa- 

 per would have been a good deal more 

 moderate in tone. It is not often such 

 important matter escapes the keen eye of 

 editor Newman. 



If the editors of the B. B. J. know 

 nothing about Punic bees what is meant 

 by the words "From our limited expe- 

 rience of it (Punic bees) is a good 

 worker of a prolific sort?" Will the 

 editor of the A. B.J. or the editors of 

 the B. B. J. tell the beekeepers of the 

 world who the author is? 



The British Bee Journal oi^o^. 19, 

 to hand. Tell your readers Brother 

 Cowan it is a regular Bunker Hill. 



T. W. Cowan, one of the editors of the 

 B. B.J. says he has not cared to look 

 at the Api of late it contams so many 

 advertisements. In the same issue of 

 that paper is one whole page extolling 

 a book written by the same T. \V. 

 Cowan. 



No ! T. W. Cowan does not care to 

 look at the Api ; yet if one copy is lost 

 in the mail he is mighty careful to call 

 for another. Brother C. is bound to be 

 sarcastic even if he must be so at his own 

 expense. 



"EDITORIAL AMP:NITIES." 



In the British Bee Journal for Nov.- 

 26th, the first article is an apology re- 

 printed from \\\t Journal of Horticulture 

 of Nov. 19th, with a statement that they 

 have been requested to insert it by the 

 editor of that Journal. The apology was 

 doubtless written word for word by 

 Cowan & Carr, who backed up by an 

 attorney dropped in on Dr. Hogg (tlie 

 editor of the Journal), when alone, just 

 as they were going to press, threatening 

 him with an action for libel, if it did not 

 go in the issue for Nov. 19, assuring 

 him that all the facts stated were true. 

 Dr. Hogg being too ill to verify their 

 statements at once and not wishing to 

 do them a wrong and thinking their 

 representations must be true when 

 backed up by an attorney, published 

 it. The next day he learned how he 

 had been imposed upon. Mr. Wright, 

 on whom Dr. Hogg (who is now getting 

 very old, and suffers much from ill 

 health) relies to help him, was away 

 from home at the time. The following 

 extrjict from the apology combines the 

 supposed facts. 



"There was no mention of Punic 

 bees in the Record of June, 1S90, nor 

 has there been any allusion to them eith- 

 er editorially or by any of its correspon- 

 dents. There is also no statement in 

 the Record for June, 1890, that Mr. 

 Carr had a Punic stock in his posses- 

 sion, and he has never written anything 

 about Punic bees." 



By referring to the Record for June, 



