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accymulation. Mr. Tunicliff was very 

 enthusiastic over this arrangement. He 

 declared it the best frame extant. As 

 to the thumb-screw, he owed Mr. Hed- 

 don nothing for it, for he had borrowed 

 it from Mr. Manum, who had used it for 

 many years before Mr. Heddon. He. 

 did not consider Mr. H. the first one to 

 use closed-end frames in a tight-fitting 

 box, for he had used them both in com- 

 bination ever since 1878. 



On page 45, "Success in Bee-Culture," 

 near the bo'ttom, I find the following : 

 " For the past two seasons I have pro- 

 duced both in nearly equal quantities, 

 and have now decided to make comb- 

 honey ray main crop hereafter. 'But,' 

 I hear some one say, ' more bees will go 

 to the fields when the combs are 

 extracted, and no comb-builders are 

 needed at home ; hence, we must get 

 more honey when the extractor is used.' 

 Doubtless this is true, but it is equally a 

 fact that I can keep a greater number 

 of colonies without over-stocking my 

 field when devoted to comb-honey stor- 

 ing, and without a corresponding increase 

 of labor in caring for them [nonsense] ; 

 hence I ivill keep more bees, and raise 

 higher-priced honey." 



Then, Mr. Heddon describes his new 

 hives. Extra-fine, four-piece dovetailed 

 section, and his methods for producing 

 large quantities of extra-fine white 

 comb-honey, etc. 



Later, when comb-honey was selling 

 everywhere for from 12j^ to 15 cents 

 per pound, he was claiming in the bee- 

 periodicals that he was selling his 

 readily to the farmers at 20 cents per 

 pound, on account of his honey being so 

 nicely put up. It is in the Bee Journal 

 somewhere, but I cannot refer to the 

 page. 



On page 694 of the Bee Journal for 

 1889, I see his crop of honey from 200 

 colonies was 1,000 pounds of comb, and 

 4,000 pounds of extracted, but I have 

 seen no statement as to the price at 

 which this was sold, though on the last 

 page of his circular (1891) I find the 

 following : " During the past year I 

 have sold, almost exclusively to bee- 

 keepers, etc., the choicest extracted- 

 honey. I sold it at the low price of 8 

 cents per pound for basswood and white 

 clover, and 7 cents per pound for bright 

 amber, and 6 cents per pound for darker 

 amber ; all grades in 58 pound cans, 

 net^ The same goods were sold in barrels 

 of 500 pounds net, at one cent per pound 

 less than the above figures, all delivered 

 free on board cars here ; no charge for 

 packages." 



Lower down he says : "I expect the 

 above prices will hold for the coming, 

 season," etc. 



This would place the price of his 

 clover honey at 7 cents per pound in 

 barrels, and the dark honey at 5 cents. 



This is good advice to give, especially 

 as the demand for extracted-honey has 

 been good, at from 7 to 10 cents per 

 pound. My entire crop netted about 

 8K cents, though I sold three barrels at 

 6 cents, to close it out. 



On page 324 of Gleanings for May, 

 1890, I find the following from Mr. 

 Barnett Taylor: "In mentioning my 

 hive at the Wisconsin Bee-Keepers' Con- 

 vention at Madison, you say it has a 

 rabbeted top similar to my simplicity 

 hive, to keep out wind and rain. I want 

 to explain that the rabbet in my hive is 

 not made to keep out wind and 

 rain, but to always keep just a bee-space 

 between the frames of two or more hives, 

 when tiered up on top of each other. I 

 now have a hive of the first lot of 50 

 that I ever made. I made them in 



1865 The only change I ever made 



in my hive was in making the frames 

 deeper, and in this respect I have tried 

 various depths ; but of whatever depth, 

 I used them in pairs." 



On page 118, of Gleanings, 1891, I 

 find the following advertisement : 



'.'JUST OUT! Something entirely 

 new in hives." An application for his 

 circular discloses the fact that his 

 "something entirely new" is simply a 

 frame without a bottom-bar. If you will 

 take the trouble to look at an old Bee- 

 Keepers' Text-Book or Bee-Keepers' Jour- 

 nal, published by H. A. King, at Nevada, 

 Ohio, over twenty years ago, you will 

 find the same thing in the old American 

 hive, of which thousands were made and 

 sold all over the country. 



Mr. Heddon will please excuse me, 

 but the following quotation seems so 

 appropriate in this place. You will find 

 it on page 683, American Bee Journal, 

 Oct. 26, 1889, first column near the 

 top: " I tell you, friends, the man who 

 steals bread, goaded to the act by the 

 sight of palid lips of starving wife or 

 child, has an excuse ; but he who steals 

 the honor that belongs to another, steals 

 something that he cannot successfully 

 use, and something that fits him only as 

 the armor of a plumed knight fits a 

 pollywog, and is a thief by nature." 



Let me call your attention to still 

 another passage, on the same page and 

 number of the American Bee Journal, 

 second column : "Mr. Heddon warned 

 bee-keepers against this seed business. . . 

 You know that I publish a local paper 



