“ novice's” oleaninus in iieg culture. 
m 
(price 10 cents now) we have the smooth 
falsehood only instead, to entice $2.00 
from the unsuspecting. From another 
part of Busy Bee we clip as follows : 
“All the marvels of bee architecture and 
government, which so delight, charm and 
elevate the soul, point out to us a higher 
and lovelier state, where we shall not on- 
ly see the Creator's wisdom reflected, but 
can see Him as He is. They are the Al- 
mighty’s decrees, reflecting His wisdom, 
and cannot be violated with impunity. 
The patient and untiring aparian, who la 
bors to unfold the mysterious nature of 
the honey bee, will, as he unveils the skill 
and power of the All-wise Creator, be 
taught a lesson well-calculated to elevate 
the mind above the gross and carnal, and 
he must be dull indeed who cannot here 
gather volumes of instruction and enter- 
tainment.” 
It is the greatest pity, Mr. F., that your 
pursuit has not as yet elevated your soul 
sufficiently to have deterred you from 
taking $2 from your fellow men for some- 
thing that was already common property, 
and worst of all to pretend it was the re- 
sult of your own researches. Has it real- 
ly come to such a pass that whenever we 
see Scripture quoted or appeals made to 
the wisdom of our Creator, we must 
straightway look about to see what new 
swindle is being prepared for us ? 
We at first proposed that Mr. Flick- 
should go in company with Mitchell, but 
we feel sure now that the latter would he 
ashamed of such small meannesses. Oh, 
yes, Mr. F., we want our $2 back. The 
recipe is not as represented. For bee 
feed, omit all the ingredients except the 
sugar and water. For table use it may 
do for a syrup, but no one would mistake 
it for honey. The slippery elm will cause 
it to ferment in warm weather (see Dr. 
Chase's book.) We have given the re- 
cipe to all our readers, and Mr. F. has 
good grounds for seeking legal redress if 
the law allows any in such cases. 
We presume that courtesy and custom 
would dictate that a pleasant mention be 
made of the Oct. No. of the National Bet • 
Journal just at hand, with Mrs. Topper's 
name appended as Editor and Publisher; 
yet the whole appearance of the number 
is so unlike her work, and so little to her 
credit, that we forbear any criticism for 
the present, farther than that the number 
of typographical errors in many places 
seriously interferes with a proper niid< r 
standing of the subject . Mrs. T. has not 
yet “got hold of the reins,” we presume. 
HONEY (,'OI.l'MN. 
,1 Ei VKKSON, Wis., Oct. 18, 187:5. 
M ?it. A. I. ROOT : — Dear Sir:— Bee 
y keeping has added over $22,000.00, 
during the last five years, to my earthly 
posessions; my income is such that i 
would have no need to keep bees for the 
sake of making a living. But I am satis- 
fied that I could not live a contented life 
without the keeping of a large number ot 
colonies of bees, and therefore will keep 
them until I really get tired of them. 
Well, I have been in Chicago to sell my 
own and some honey I had bought of my 
neighbors. 1 called on C. O. Perrinc, 
who had written to Mr. Fuerbringer that 
he was prepared to pay cash for all the 
honey he could get ; and when 1 asked 
him if he could pay me the cash, if I con- 
cluded to sell to him he replied that he 
' could pay no cash under 00 days, but 
would pay me 12 per cent, interest. He 
j had formerly, once invited me with ray 
honey to Chicago, under the same pre- 
tense, and I was forced to take his notes 
for thirty and sixty days, or remove the 
honey again after 1 had delivered it. I 
call this a mean trick. There is nothing 
that can make a bee keeper feel better 
than the clean cash for his surplus honey 
crop at the end of the season, [Have we 
a reader who don't intensely feel the truth 
of this remark.— E d ], and to be forced 
to take notes of a very doubtful value 
creates quite an unpleasant feeling. 
After enquiry I found that great solitaire 
honey house of C. O. P. had lost its chief 
pillar. His former wife and almost ex- 
| clusived manager of the house in Chicago 
for two years time (C. O. P., carrying on 
a honey house in Philadelphia,) separated 
! from him last winter. After more care- 
ful inquiry I learned that C. O. P. only 
keeps above water by paying up old debts 
and making new ones. I think it is my 
duty to the American bee keepers to com- 
municate this to you, as I had recom- 
mended C. O. P. as a honey house to 
which a large amount of honey could be 
sold at one lick. It is true after a forced 
drawing off of over $50, 1 got all my pay- 
out of him, but other parties have not 
succeeded so well. 1 will only add that 1 
sold my honey to some parties who are 
about to open a honey house under the 
firm name of the Chicago Honey Com- 
pany, 300 Wabash Avenue, Chicago, and 
got a very satisfactory price and the cash 
i'or it. It will be carried on by the former 
Mrs. C. (). Perrinc us principal manager, 
the little honey woman to whom I en 
[ trusted, after the great Chicago fire, my 
large honey crop of two years ago, com- 
ing to over $1,001), and who paid me 
promptly as agreed until ('. O. P. came 
back to Chicago and then pay was com- 
ing very slow. And now Mr. Editor if 
you consider this of any value to your 
readers, 1 give you leave to insert it in 
your columns. Very respectfully, 
Adam Grimm. 
