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thority. and even the thanks of the Board, 

 for disseminating results more widely and 

 quickly than it could without extra ex- 

 pense. Mr. Larrabee would have been 

 made more than welcome to the same 

 course, could he have found time to pur- 

 sue it. 



I am sure you will be glad to set this 

 matter right in the American Bee Jour- 

 nal, as well as to give the Review the credit 

 which common courtesy requires. 



Very respectfully yours, 



R. L. Taylor. 



Lapeer, Mich., Nov. 16, 1893. 



Well, Bro. Taylor, It seems that all the 

 trouble comes from the use of the words 

 '• articles ■' and " reports." You say that 

 the lieriew pays you for writing the " arti- 

 cles " describing your experimental work, 

 and in the lievi.ew' n advertisement, awhile 

 ago, it said this : 



•' He [Mr. Taylor j will conduct a depart- 

 meftt in the TF^'/^w, headed: ' Work in the 

 Michigan Experimental Apiary,' in which 

 will be given monthly rejjorts regardmg the 

 experimniU being conducted." (Italics are 

 ours.) 



You see the lie^ilew calls them your "re- 

 ports." and you call them "articles." But 

 in either case, we contend that anything 

 written by you ' ' regarding the experiments 

 being conducted " in the Michigan Experi- 

 ment Apiary, belong to any bee-paper 

 that chooses to publish it, as it is paid for 

 with public funds. Of course, your ''Timely 

 Topics " in the Ernew are quite a different 

 thing, and if we copied them we certainly 

 should give all " the credit which common 

 courtesy requires," or even what an un- 

 courtesy might demand. But when it 

 comes to giving credit to another paper 

 when we copy something from it of the 

 nature of reports of work done at a State 

 Experiment Apiary, why. we rather think 

 we'll have to ask to be excused 



As before stated, if we are .wrong in this 

 matter, we are willing to be set right and 

 be fully forgiven, and will promise to be un- 

 commonly courteous in our apologies. We 

 want only what is rightfully ours. 



Xhe Apiariait ■■i-emiimis, award- 

 ed at the St. Louis, Mo., Fair, in October, 

 areas follows :i 



Best colony Italian bees in one-frame 

 observatory hive— 1st premium, $10, Thos. 

 Johnson, Coon Rapids, Iowa; 2nd, $5, C. G. 

 Jacobs, DeWitt. Iowa. 



Best colony Cyprian bees in one-frame 

 observatory hive — 1st premium, $10, Wm. 



Kimble. DeWitt, Iowa; 2nd, $5, C. G. 

 Jacobs. 



Best colony Syrian bees in one-frame 

 observatory hive — 1st premium, $10, Geo. 

 Leibrock & Sons, Mascoutah, Ills. ; 2nd, $5, 

 Thos. Johnson. 



Best colony Albino bees in one-frame ob- 

 servatory hive — 1st premium, $10, Thos. 

 Johnson ; 2nd. $5, Wm. Kimble. 



Best colony black bees in one-frame ob- 

 servatory hive — 1st premium, $10, Geo. 

 Leibrock & Sons; 2nd, $5, C. G. Jacobs. 



Best collection of queen-bees, alive — 1st 

 premium, $5. Wm. Kimble ; 2nd, $2, George 

 Leibrock & Sons. 



Best and largest display of comb honey, 

 quality and manner of putting up for mar- 

 ket to be considered — 1st premium, $20, 

 Wm. Kimble ; 2nd, $10, Geo. Leibrock & 

 Sons. * 



Best and largest display of extracted 

 honey, quality and manner of putting up 

 for market to be considered — 1st premium, 

 $20, Wm. Kimble ; 2nd, $10, Geo. Leibrock 

 & Sons. 



Best 10 pounds of beeswax — 1st premium, 

 $5, C. G. Jacobs; 2nd, $3, Wm. Kimble. 



Best frame of comb honey — 1st premium, 

 $5, C. G. Jacobs ; 2nd, $3, Geo. Leibrock & 

 Sons. 



Best and largest display of apiarian im- 

 plements — 1st premium, large silver medal 

 and $10, Geo. Leibrock & Sons ; '2nd, $5, 

 Wm. Kimble. 



Best comb foundation machine — 1st pre- 

 mium. $5, Geo. Leibrock & Sons; 2nd, $3, 

 Wm. Kimble. 



Best comb foundation made on the 

 grounds — 1st premium, .$5, Geo. Leibrock & 

 Sons; 2nd. $2, Wm. Kimble. 



Coi*ii$!>taIk$<» for Protection. — A 



writer in the Country Gentleman once said 

 that after studying the winter problem for 

 some time, he concluded that if the hive 

 was surrounded with cornstalks the bees 

 would have sufficient pi'otection, and get 

 plenty of air. He placed cornstalks around 

 the hive, tying them at the top, so that 

 when finished it looked as if he had taken 

 one of the shocks of stalks from the field 

 and set it up in his yard. In the spring of 

 1891 the bees were in splendid condition, 

 but that was a mild winter, and he did not 

 consider it a fair test. In the fall of 1891 he 

 fixed them in the same way ; the following 

 winter was not so mild. When he took off 

 the stalks, in the spring, the bees seemed 

 as strong and vigorous as at any time dur- 

 ing the summer. 



One-Cent Postage Stamps we 



prefer whenever it is necessary to send 

 stamps for fractions of a dollar. By re- 

 membering this, you will greatly oblige us, 

 as we use many more one-cent stamps than 

 1 the two-cent kind. 



