. The American bee keeper. Bee culture; Honey. 40 THE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER. February. Mr. Editor.—Allow me to make a correction, explanation, or whatever may be necessary, to straighten out a a matter about which two paragraphs have appeared in A. B. K. The South- land Queen printed a series of lessons upon which the editor of Gleanings commented favorably, evidently un- derstanding them to be original mat- ter. I corrected him by saying they were copied from the American Bee Journal, Then he understood that they were copied without credit, and said, "This is a surprise. We turn to the Atc
. The American bee keeper. Bee culture; Honey. 40 THE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER. February. Mr. Editor.—Allow me to make a correction, explanation, or whatever may be necessary, to straighten out a a matter about which two paragraphs have appeared in A. B. K. The South- land Queen printed a series of lessons upon which the editor of Gleanings commented favorably, evidently un- derstanding them to be original mat- ter. I corrected him by saying they were copied from the American Bee Journal, Then he understood that they were copied without credit, and said, "This is a surprise. We turn to the Atchleys for a reply to this ; I replied that there was no charge against the Atchleys in what I had said, and that they had acknow- ledged the source of the lessons, only I wanted to correct him in crediting to one paper what belonged to another. Now you have the whole thing in a nutshell, and you will see that 1 have never made any charge whatever against the Atchleys, and I'm wonder- ing just a little where you gel any authority for saying that I charged them with "filching" from the A. B. J. The only charge that can be made against them in the matter is careless- ness in not crediting each time when copying, for in one number no credit was given, and that number being the one upon which the editor of Gleanings commented, led him into the mistake of supposing that the matter was printed as original, a mistake that was entirely excusable on his part. But you will see that until the present moment I never made even this much of a charge, merely saying the articles were copied. C. C. Miller. Marengo, 111., Jan, 15, 1896. [We are very glad to be " set to rights " on the matter, and that the Atchleys are clear from all blame. The trouble seems to have been with the editor of Gleanings. It was from Gleanings that we got the idea that the articles were " filched" and owing to the close acquaintance between Dr. Miller and the editor of Gleani
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