. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 5T sist him in building up his (Heddon's) news- paper. While complimenting Mr. H. on hia good taste in securing such an eminent writer as Mr. Burch, I must say that he was a little too severe on a class of writers who did much to make apiculture what it is to-day. It was such •? literary fellows " as Lang- stroth and others who did much to give us some books on bees that rank high as liter- ary productions. I am inclined to think that Mr. Heddon did not really intend to cast any reflection on writers like those I have been m
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 5T sist him in building up his (Heddon's) news- paper. While complimenting Mr. H. on hia good taste in securing such an eminent writer as Mr. Burch, I must say that he was a little too severe on a class of writers who did much to make apiculture what it is to-day. It was such •? literary fellows " as Lang- stroth and others who did much to give us some books on bees that rank high as liter- ary productions. I am inclined to think that Mr. Heddon did not really intend to cast any reflection on writers like those I have been mention- ing, but he wanted to head of such writers as the Rambler and the Somnambulist. It was these, and nothing more! The Stinger is not very well disposed toward those people who have the running of the Agricultural Experiment Stations in the United States. He believes that these Stations are, in the majority of cases, man- aged by persons who are not in all cases fitted for the places they are assigned to. There is a good deal of humbuggery about these matters; it is too often that they are used to give some political fellow a berth where he can draw down a good salary. What I would like to see, is some way of making these Stations more useful than they now are. Not all the men who are in charge of them are competent to fulfil the duties assigned them. A correspondent writes saying he was in hopes The Stinger would be put into winter quarters and not taken out again until the spring. The Stinger thanks the aforesaid correspondent, and would say that he re- grets that the witless correspondent did not sign his name to the letter, that I might pay my respects to him in a way that would make him sorry for his impertinence. The Stinger is not the kind of a bear that has to seek some den during the winter months; nor is he exactly like the bee that has the misfortune of living in a cold clime. The Stinger is out every day in the year, and if he does not come your way often, do
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