THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW, 



" Yes, Pastor Weygandt is a good man, and 

 has made a success with his system, but 

 others do not succeed so well, or else the 

 trouble is too much for the gain, and it is 

 hardly advisable for you in America to med- 

 dle with it until more of those who hhva 

 tried or are still trying it in Germany pro- 

 nounce it an unqualified success." 



Mabengo, 111. Dec. 18, 1893. 



"Wants the Review to Get the Best Corres- 

 pondents and Indulge in no Side -Issues. 

 Why the Given Press was Dropped. 



JAMES HEDDON. 



Error may endure for a night, for a night, 

 Truth cometh with the morning light ; 

 Error may endure for a night, for a night, 

 Truth i-(iiiM'tl[ in tlio uuirning. 



T F I understand 

 1 you correctly, 

 L ^ you want us to tell 



Jl«R«<aE^r, what we think of 



^ j^ ^ the Review. lean- 



not now think of 

 an J thing I can say 

 other than perhaps 

 to throw in a little 

 prevention against 

 what might hap- 

 pen if we don't 

 stiffen up your 

 spine once in so often, that you may not fail 

 to keep out of your journal the writings of 

 those whom you believe to be dishonest, vis- 

 ionary, impractical or inexperienced. Be- 

 sides this we do not want articles too techni- 

 cal ; winding about through labyrinths of 

 science, until the practical, money-making 

 honey-producer loses the trend of the writer 

 and his own patience. 



I want to say to friend Murray, of Elkhait, 

 Ind , that I stand corrected, and if I could 

 remember what celebrated professor it was 

 that I got my chemical terms from, that told 

 us that the principal elements of honey were 

 oxygenous and nitrogenous I would correct 

 him also. But, as it makes no difiPerence 

 whatever in regard to the principles and facts 

 that I stated in my article, nor with my ex- 

 periments which I recited to convince my 

 fellow bee keepers of what I felt sure of, 

 viz., that sugar syrup would winter bees 

 without loading the intestines with fiecal 



mattei-, it seems to me that Mr. Murray's 

 one and one fourth column article is devoted 

 to chemistry, rather than bee-culture. 



My object in taking a bee-journal, is single 

 tj a practical dollar and cent success. I 

 indulge in other kinds of li.erature. I read 

 poetry, history, news, law, medicine, elec- 

 tricity, astronomy, geology and metaphysics, 

 quite extensively, and I can buy ten times 

 more thought in any one of these several 

 lines, for $1.00, than I can get out of yonr 

 journal, and I don't want you to devote any 

 of your space to picture-taking, gardening, 

 nor even religion, as I know where I can get 

 all these things on other and special dishes, 

 for much less money than they are or can be 

 furnished by any bee journal. Go right on 

 Bro. H. showing your religion in your prac- 

 tice of candor and giving us two orthrte 

 dollars worth of literature for one dollar and 

 continue the modesty of sinking self beneath 

 some other things of more importance to 

 your readers. 



I like the Review from purely selfish mo- 

 tives. It puts clothes upon my family and 

 self, brings food into the house and aids us 

 in procuring many of the luxuries of life, 

 by giving us plain and correct directions for 

 getting more money out of the bee business 

 than we could otherwise do. 



I must not close without mentioning the 

 immense value (to me) of your reports of 

 friend Taylor's experiments. And, by the 

 way, you asked how it was that the manu- 

 facture of the Given press was discontinued? 

 You ask this after stating that experiments 

 have shown that the Given foundation is the 

 best of all. Let me tell you. Great advertis- 

 ing facilities will sell a poor article for a 

 larger price than a better one can command. 

 For many years Bro. Root, himself deluded, 

 spread broad-cast the delusion that the Sim- 

 plicity hive was better and more practical 

 than my modification of the L. hive. He 

 sold ten of them to every one that all sold of 

 the Heddon L. hive. Finally, with the aid 

 of many leading bee-keepers, the great truth 

 of the comparative worthlessness of the 

 Simplicity dawned upon our very busy 

 friend, and he sent me $100 as a present and 

 token for being right, as well as, perhaps, a 

 sort of "beg pardon" for his being wrong. 

 But wrong as he was, he could and did spread 

 the wrong ten or twenty times as fast and as 

 far as I could spread the right. He and 

 others did the same thing regarding the 

 Given foundation machine, so that when Mr. 



