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around the stem with tape, thus pre- 

 venting tlie bees from appropriating 

 the nectar for 24 liours. I cut off the 

 tape, and removing the paper, held up 

 the ball before Messrs. A. I. Root, L. 

 C. Root, and others— tlie flowerets 

 were dripping nectar, and the drops 

 sparkled in the morning sun, and 

 their eyes sparkled witli delight and 

 astonishment. I have made similar 

 tests with like results, using the 

 plants which I have here at this Api- 

 cullural Station. 



Mr. Chapman has distributed this 

 plant over a wide extent of country, 

 from Vermont to J^^ebraska, and each 

 member of the committee has been 

 furnished with two-year-old plants 

 for cultivation and observation during 

 the present summer. All the facts 

 obtainable will be given to those in- 

 terested when the committee make 

 their formal report to the Society at 

 the next annual meeting. 



U. S. Apicultural Station, Aurora, 9 

 Ills., Aug. 5, 1886. 



For tlxe American Bee Joumai- 



Honor to Hiom Honor is Due. 



JUSTICE FAIRMAN. 



I am surprised at the latter portion 

 of Mr. Demaree's article, on page 501, 

 wherein he condemns the double 

 brood-chamber, and lays claim to the 

 one-half bee-space, as he did to the 

 double brood-chamber on page 102. 



As a reason for my surprise, please 

 allow me to quote the following, as 

 found on page 102, where, in criticis- 

 ing Mr. Heddon's new hive and prin- 

 ciples, Mr. Demaree says : 



" As to the utility of a hive made in 

 horizontal sectional parts, I am not 

 without experience. I have experi- 

 mentea in that direction for the past 

 six years, and I now have bees win- 

 tering in a hive made of cross sec- 

 tional parts, only 5% inches in depth. 

 When the bees were prepared for 

 winter, in September, they were shut 

 down in a single sectional part of the 

 hive, the frames being only 5j^xl7% 

 inches, outside measure. I have ex- 

 perimented quite extensively with 

 the sectional shallow-frame cases, 

 using them for brood rearing, tiering 

 them up to suit the size of the colony, 

 and for queen-rearing, using a single 

 sectional case ; and I have employed 

 them largely for taking extracted 



honey on the tiering-up plan In 



the discussion between my dis- 

 tingushed friend. Dr. Southwick and 

 myself, published in the American 

 Bee -Journal, Vol. 19, pages 370 and 

 .371, I mentioned my shallow-frame 

 system, using it as an argument in 

 favor of shallow frames." 



Near the close of this criticism of 

 Mr. Heddon's one-halt bee-space, Mr. 

 Demaree says : " It is proper to say 

 that the frames are adjusted in the 

 case, so as to leave a shallow bee- 

 space both at the top and bottom of 

 them, and the case will work with 

 either side down or up. Comment is 

 unnecessary." 



Now imagine my surprise at reading 

 the following on page .501 : 



" The idea of a shallow bee-space at 

 the top and bottom of the frames and 

 section-boxes originated with myself, 

 though I notice that this idea is 

 prouiinent in Mr. J. M. Shuck's 

 patent hive, a sample of which I have 

 in my apiary ; but I suppose that Mr. 

 Shuck does not claim this as his 

 property, as it would be impossible to 

 detine what a " bee-space " is, in 

 actual measurement. 



" After trying the double-brood- 

 chamber hive pretty thoroughly, I 

 feel sure that it will never come into 

 general use. Those who wish to 

 manipulate all tlie honey out of the 

 brood-nest into the surplus depart- 

 ment, with the view of feeding 

 cheaper food than honey to their 

 bees for winter stores, and have no 

 qualms of conscience if some of the 

 "cheaper food " does go into the sur- 

 plus at the beginning of the early 

 honey harvest, will probably hold on 

 to the tiered brood-chamber for some- 

 time to come, or until the honey 

 business is well nigh ruined." 



This does not seem to harmonize 

 with Mr. Demaree's criticisms as 

 cited from page 102. Allow me to 

 quote from Mr. Hutchinson's article 

 on page 152. Speaking of Mr. Hed- 

 don's new hive in reply to Mr. Dem- 

 aree, on page 102, he says : " There 

 can be no imaginary question as to 

 the newness of thus arranging frames 

 so as to have the bee-space on either 

 side, or divided between both, at 

 will." 



Here allow me to quote from Mr. 

 Heddon's book, page 123 : " The 

 term ' bee-space' does not only denote 

 a space that will admit of the passage 

 of a bee, but it refers to that space in 

 which bees are least inclined to build 

 brace-combs or place propolis, or bee- 

 glue ; which is a scant % of an inch." 



On page 214. Mr. Heddon lays down 

 six of the claims of his late invention. 

 No. 2 reads as follows : " Arranging 

 frames within a case which is bee- 

 space deeper than the frames, in such 

 manner as to leave one-half of that 

 bee-space on either side of the 

 frames." 



We also find it clearly described on 

 page 91 of his book. If Mr. D. has 

 read that book, I do not see what 

 prompts him to mention Mr. Shuck, 

 and ignore the one who first made 

 it public, and I believe first invented 

 it. I am not talking about patents, 

 but about respectfully and honestly 

 giving " honor to whom honor is due;" 

 and here allow me to quote from Mr. 

 Heddon, from page .53 of the Ameri- 

 can Bee Journal for 1885, wherein 

 he is discussing the question of the 

 moral rights of inventors. He says : 



" Let the prior inventor remember 

 that such priority is not enough for a 

 claim of ' right.' We have no money 

 or time to spend settling complicated 

 claims of secreted priority. The first 

 man who benefits us all by publishing, 

 thus giving to us the advantages of 

 his invention, let us hold entitled to 

 all the honorary and financial benefits 

 accruing from such discovery, and 

 the exclusive right of manufacture of 

 the same for a reasonable length of 

 time." 



The above strikes me as being in 

 harmony with reason and justice, and 

 precludes the wrongs that might be 

 perpetrated through falsehood. Upon 

 referring to Mr. Demaree's cited con- 

 troversy with Dr. Southwick, I find 

 that his shallow sections were all 

 surplus sections, and that the brood- 

 apartments used by him are plainly 

 described as one story, and of Lang- 

 stroth depth. I have used Mr. Hed- 

 don's divisible brood-chamber, and I 

 consider it of immense value, and 

 firmly believe that the same conclu- 

 sions will be formed by others who 

 are testing it. Let us see, when they 

 report. 



Louisville, 5 Ky. 



For the American Bee Journal. 



Having an Ax to Grinil', etc, 



C. W. DAYTON, (200). 



On page 409 Mr. Heddon says that ~ 

 he does not see why I should acknowl- 

 edge any such motive as having an 

 " ax to grind," when I described the 

 " queen-restrictor," on page 393, un- 

 less I wrote for the purpose of ex- 

 tolling the merits of the manufacture 

 with a pecuniary end in view. I think 

 that I did not acknowledge such 

 motives, but suggested that some 

 might acknowledge it for me ; but in 

 that it might be possible that I 

 judged too strongly. I gave the " ax 

 to grind " statement from a remem- 

 brance of its having been employed 

 to show that the description of fix- 

 tures described were not for adver- 

 tisement; and as such action would 

 be stealing advertising space, and 

 very discreditable, I asked if there 

 would necessarily be discredit con- 

 nected therewith, if I wrote because 

 I had an " ax to grind ;" as I believed 

 that it might be for the purpose of 

 gaining glory, or what would appear 

 better in the public press, mutual 

 benefit. 



As Mr. Heddon cannot see (from 

 his stand-point) my arrangement as 

 at all nractical, etc., I thought of 

 predicting in my former article, pre- 

 suming such stand-points to be on 

 the roof if not behind a sectional 

 hive, to which hives my arrangement 

 cannot be adapted. Doubtless he 

 has formed connubial relations with 

 the idea that the revolutionizing of 

 bee-keeping must incur a full change 

 of hives and contents instead of the 

 simple arrangement of a few ordi- 

 nary frames. 



It is my opinion that the sections 

 should be where the bees wish to put 

 the honey, instead of shutting them 

 up (from the queen) in an out of the 

 way place, and then attempting to 

 drive the bees into them. On the 

 whole, it is much like the stock laws 

 in some sections of our country, 

 where SlOO worth of fencing is used 

 to confine $10 worth of stock in the 

 highway; while $10 worth of pasture 

 fence would restrict $100 worth of 

 stock, and save an immense amount 

 of labor and care. 



Bradford, d Iowa. 



