“ NOVICE’S 11 OI.EANINOS IN BEE CDI.TBM. 
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Hit. Chase's Second Receipt Book is a ! 
considerable part of it devoted to bee | 
keeping, and (be author has been wise iu j 
securing articles from only those who 
have been successful in the pursuit. We 
would suggest that Mrs. Tupper’s prize 
essay, before being copied further, be 
thoroughly revised, by herself, up to the 
times, as it was written many years ago. 
Col. Hoit's article is for the most part 
quite safe and reliable, but his statement 
that “A swarm of bees put in a clean 
hive, will build their own comb and do 
much better, than a swarm put into a hive 
with the combs already built," is rather a 
grave error and one calculated to do 
much mischief. A new swarm will fre- 
quently gather ten pounds or more of 
honey the day after being hived, if they 
have combs in which they can store it, and 
the queen will also nearly fill a comb with 
eggs in the same lime, giving them a 
great start in advance of those having no 
comb. We cannot see how a single ex- 
periment ever made, with two swarms I 
coming out on the same day, could have ! 
given a result unfavorable to the hive 
furnished combs. As the Colonel used 
movable comb hives, we can’t account for 
his want of experience in the matter. As 
Miss Katie Grimm’s experience with the 
extractor is given in another place there 
is a chance for the Dr’s, renders to give 
modern bee keeping something like its 
just dues alter all. We really believe the j 
book contains nearly all the truly valua- jj 
bio receipts afloat. Price, . Ad- j 
dress Dr. A. W. Chase, Ann Arbor, Mich. ( 
lx the Hural New Yorker, of Sept. 
-iih, Prof. C. V. Riley attempts to justi- 
fy his course in advising retaliation as a 
remedy against bcc keepers, whose bees j 
are supposed to have injured neighbors 
fruits, lie advises to plant the milkweed, 
that the bees may be ensnared thereby 
ami the hives thus decimated to such an 
extent that they "give out," etc., etc. To j 
say nothing of the folly of such a pro- 
ceeding, which would almost parallel that ! 
of "removing the meeting bouse" because 
no offensive, deceased snake lay behind | 
it, is it not strange that a man with Prof. 
written before his name, should imagine 
that neighborhood troubles of that kind, 
would be peacefully adjusted by such 
measures ns poisoning each others bees 
by "fly poison" (cobalt and arsenic), and * 
that retaliation would not follow retalia- 
tion, until a case resulted that could only 
be settled by the law, and, as often hap- 
pens, the States prison walls might close 
about one or both of the parties. We 
feci confident that the very persons Prof. 
Riley cites, would be reasonable and fair 
could they be brought to talk over the 
matter in a friendly manner. We bee 
keepers, Prof. R., are for the most part 
certainly an independent and reasonable 
people, and whenever our bees are annoy- 
ing our neighbors we will make good the 
damages and taka prompt measures to 
aoate the trouble. Bees in our locality- 
do not injure fruit, although mnny seeia 
to think they do. The matter lias already 
been discussed so mueh that we have no 
room for more of it here. 
HUMBUGS AND 
TAINIKU TO 
NWINDLE8 PEK. 
BEE CULTURE. 
[Wo respectfully solicit the aid of our 
menus in conducting this department, and 
would consider it a favor to have them send 
us all circulars that have a deceptive appear* 
anco. Ihe greatest care will beat all times 
maintained to prevent injustice being done 
any one.] 
L BOUGTON, Illiopolis, 111., and 
S Will R. King, Franklin, Ky., nra 
complained of as having received money 
for queens and refusing to answer letters 
of inquiry relating thereto. In answer to 
our letters of inquiry, Mr. Boughtou 
makes no reply, and as the Bee Keepers' 
Magazine 1ms given him the position he 
has earned for himself, we drop him. 
Will 11. King answers at length and wh 
give the following extracts from his letter : 
“In reply I would saythatl sold a largo 
number of queens in tlie spring and sum- 
mer of 1872 ; very many of my orders I 
filled the fourth and fifth time, complaints 
coming that the queens died in the cago 
before being released, Ac., Ac. Some 
said that they arrived dead, others that 
they were so near dead that they died be- 
fore being introduced, Ac., Ac. Several 
sent what purported to he statements of 
Post Masters and Express Agents, certify- 
ing that they were dead, or dying, or 
going to die, or did die, or might, could, or 
should have died, Ac., Ac. All such com* 
plaints wore listened to attentively, and 
more and more queens were sent. I be- 
came suspicious that I was being played 
off on ; and it .turned out that some of 
these so-called certificates of P. M’s. and 
express agents, purporting to be signed 
bv the same parties, were in fact written 
in different hands, Ac. I feel fully satisfied 
that I was swindled out of at' least 200 
nice, pure queens." 
Mr. K. goes on with much more in the 
same style, says he never received aur 
