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VOL. XIX. 



CHICAGO, ILL., OCTOBER 3, 1883. 



No. 40. 



Published every Wednesday, by 



THOMAS G. NEWMAN, 



Editor and Proprietor, 



Abuse is Not Argument. 



Mr. Hamet, the publisher of VApi- 

 culteur, in Paris, is opposed to movable 

 frame hives. Fifteen years ago he 

 wrote that the main quality of such 

 hives was to be pulled to pieces like a 

 pack of puppets. The honey extractor 

 was, to him, a useless toy. He has 

 continued since to fight against every 

 new idea or improvement, and when 

 we were in Paris, he ridiculed every 

 thing in progressive apiculture which 

 we use in America. 



Mr. Hamet asserts that foul brood 

 is generated hy the use of frame hives. 

 Mr. Chas. Dadant, of Hamilton, 111., 

 who has for years been writing for the 

 European bee papers, has taken the 

 ground that foul brood was propagated 

 by contagion. 



Last spring Mr. Bertrand, editor of 

 D''Apiculteur, published a lithograph 

 of Mr. Dadant, and was censured by 

 Mr. Hamet for so doing ; at the same 

 time Mr. D. was assailed in the most 

 vindictive manner. In the VApiculteur 

 for August, Mr. Hamet renews the 

 attack, more ferocious than ever, 

 without the least provocation or ex- 

 cuse. 



We exceedingly regret to see that 

 Mr. Hamet has seen fit to use mali- 

 cious personal abuse instead of argu- 

 ment. He also asserts that Mr. Dadant 

 has been published as a humbug and 

 swindler in Gleanings, and calls him 

 anything but a gentleman. 



Mr. Root justly denies that he had 

 ever thought of publishing Mr. Dadant 

 as a swindler. To us who have known 

 Mr. Dadant for 10 to 20 years as one of 

 the most gentlemanly, honest and pro- 

 gressive apiarists of America, these 



insults are very annoying and perfectly 

 unjustifiable. 



It is a very poor way for any one to 

 resort to malignity instead of using 

 argument, but the use of such is more 

 detrimental to the calumniator, than 

 to the person maligned. 



We should have taken no notice of 

 this, were it not that Mr. Hamet as- 

 sails him as a representative American 

 apiculturist, and of no reputation for 

 honesty, at home or abroad. How 

 much better it would be to 



Let all our words be full of truth, 



Let kindly feelings reign ; 

 Do good to all, and let our smiles 



Leave blessings In their train. 



1^" Mr. A. J. King, editor of the 

 Bee and Poultry Magazine, is going on 

 a trip to Cuba this month— we presume 

 for the benefit of his health. The Bee 

 Journal wishes him a pleasant jour- 

 ney and a safe return. 



1^ Several frosts have already 

 occurred in many parts of the country, 

 killing some of the fall bloom, but in 

 other parts, the bees are reported to 

 be at work quite vigorously. 



1^ At the Fair just held in Madi- 

 son, Ind., Mr. H. C. White carried off 

 all the premiums except one (which 

 was the second premium on display 

 of honey, and was awarded to Mr. S. 

 D. Mclntyre). Mr. White displayed 

 comb and extracted honey, bees, 

 hives, extractors and supplies for the 

 apiary. We congratulate him on his 

 success. 



Alsike CloTer. — The Indiana Fai-mer 

 says that Mr. Alonzo Tyner, near 

 Greenfield, Ind., grew several acres 

 the present season in the same field 

 with red clover, and said that the bees 

 worked on it incessantly, and it was 

 in its prime after basswood was over. 

 Upon later introducing the stock into 

 the field, the Alsike clover was eaten 

 to the ground before they would touch 

 the red clover. 



Honey at the Iowa State Fair. 



The Iowa Homestead has the follow- 

 ing item concerning the honey ex- 

 hibit at the Fair : 



The Bee Department was a very 

 attractive feature of the great Fair. 

 Rev. O. Clute, of Iowa City, and J. J. 

 Kizer, of Polk county, who are among 

 the most intelligent and successful 

 bee-keepers of the West, drew great 

 crowds of people around them during 

 the entire Fair, as they patiently and 

 cheerfully explained the interesting 

 processes of bee-keeping and honey 

 producing. No feature of the Fair 

 attracted more attention or awakened 

 more interest. 



1^ The total value of the exhibits 

 in the bee department of the Michigan 

 State Fair was placed at $1,088.50, 

 and the amount of the premiums 

 awarded was $189. The building de- 

 voted to bees and honey, at the recent 

 Fair, was well filled with everything 

 of interest to bee-keepers. The exhi- 

 bition of " supplies " was large, and 

 attracted considerable attention from 

 many who were not interested in api- 

 culture. The " Bee-Keepers' Hall " 

 was specially built for the purpose, 

 and was a great attraction. 



1^" We have just received from the 

 publishers a copy of the Album 

 Writer's Friend, containing nearly 

 three hundred selections suitable for 

 writing in Autograph Albums. Those 

 of our readers who have been invited 

 to inscribe their sentiments in a 

 friend's Album, will find this little 

 volume a valuable help. It contains 

 6-t pages, and will be sent by mail, 

 post paid, on receipt of 1.5 cents, by J. 

 S. Ogilvie & Co., Publishers, No. 31 

 Rose Street, New York. 



t^ The next regular meeting of 

 the Mahoning Valley Bee-Keepers' 

 Association will be held at Newton 

 Falls, O., on the first Saturday of 

 November, 1883. L. Carson, Pres. 



E. W. Turner, Sec. 



