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kinds which have been brought into 

 America have done as well, if not better, 

 than in their native land. Why should 

 not A pis dorsata ? 



Why not form a company, and send 

 some capable person after them ? It 

 would be impossible, by any means now 

 known, to send them through to America 

 from India alive, and there would have 

 to be some intermediate station. A 

 company with $4,000 or $5,000 could 

 secure these bees, and have their money 

 back from them before the Government 

 will be ready to send for them. 



Just to see how many, who think we 

 should have them, are willing to back 

 their opinion with cash, suppose we say 

 we will put the capital stock at $20 

 per share, each share holder having a 

 vote on rules and regulations governing 

 the company. Now, how many shares 

 do you want ? Please don't all speak at 

 once. 



Atlantic, Iowa. 



Hiving a Cross Swarm— Patents 



MARK D. JUDKIN8. 



On pape 113 Mr. C. H. Dibbern speaks 

 of bee-escapes. I think the most of us 

 had a " bee-escape " last winter and 

 spring, through which the most of our 

 bees escaped to " where the grape-vine 

 twineth," never more to be seen or 

 heard in our apiaries. 



My bees are doing very well now. 

 From the 7 colonies that I had left on 

 June 1st, they have increase to 21. I 

 have given them full hives of comb, and 

 they appear to appreciate them. 



I had a colony of "yellow jackets" 

 come out yesterday (July 24) ; they 

 clustered on a willow tree, the limbs of 

 which are very brittle, and while I was 

 getting a hive ready, the limb broke, 

 and let them down ; but up they went, 

 and down came another limb; they 

 broke three limbs, and when they got 

 settled on the fourth limb I was there 

 with my ladder, and took them down, 

 and shook them on a cloth in front of the 

 hive. That was the "straw that broke 

 the camel's back." 



Just at that time about half a dozen 

 of those harmless "cusses" perched 

 themselves on my nose, and as near as I 

 could tell the business end of each bee 

 came in contact with my nose at about 

 the same time, and I felt a good deal 

 like a fellow trying some of the new 

 catarrh remedies. They started the 

 tears from my eyes all right enough, but 



as soon as 1 got so I could see again, I 

 hived them all right, and without any 

 more crossness from the bees. I have 

 not used a veil or smoker this season so 

 far. 



There is no end to flowers, and bass- 

 wood will be in bloom by July 25th, 

 then if the coast is clear, we will get 

 some honey. 



Haying has commenced, and bees will 

 have to look out for themselves for a 

 while. The weather is hot and dry — 

 80° to 90 c in the shade, with a shower 

 now and then. 



INVENTORS AND THEIR INVENTIONS. 



Frequently I notice some one speaking 

 of worthless patents being issued. That 

 reminds me that I am the inventor of 

 the rirst 3-wheel riding-plow, aud every 

 plow manufacturer between here and 

 New York that saw my nice little plow 

 model, pronounced it a failure. They 

 laughed at me, and wanted to know 

 what I wanted that third wheel for. I 

 told them then that 3-wheeled plows 

 would come into general use, and to-day 

 there is not a plow company of any note 

 that is not putting up my 3-wheel plows. 

 But so far they have kept from paying 

 me any royalty. 



I do not like to see people so quick to 

 condemn any new device, when the in- 

 ventor has put his time and money into 

 it. It is the inventions that have made 

 this country the leading country in the 

 world; but there is a certain class of 

 people that never risk a cent in anything 

 unless they can see 2 cents coming back 

 to them, and this class of people are 

 always crying out at the top of their 

 voice, aud warning others to look out 

 for that and this fraud, swindle and 

 nuisance of a patent. If the inventors 

 of this country had been made up of the 

 pickaninny nature that these people are, 

 they never would have put in a dollar 

 into the patent office for inventions, and 

 never put in years of hard study figuring 

 out the new and useful inventions. I 

 am like all other inventors, I have put 

 my last dollar into a new machine more 

 than once, and you will find in every 

 community these howlers. Thousands 

 of men buy patent rights, and then 

 never do a thing with them to make a 

 dollar, and this class do considerable 

 howling; when, in many cases, if some 

 live man had taken hold of the inven- 

 tion and pushed it, he would have made 

 money out of it for himself and others. 



There are some poor inventions, but 

 more good ones that are never used, so 

 please don't " jump on " a man just be- 



