. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 445 deserves the name of bee-keeper will do so either; but keep it in its place, and like alcohol and opium, it will be found that it was not made in vain. I made an addition to my apiary last spring and tind that I have now on hand some 25 or 30 queens that are neither superannuated or impure and will have to be replaced, and I intend to use the Lycoperdon as long as my supply holds out as I find it fills my biil exactly. Oakford, Pa., Sept. 17,1879. For tne American Bee Journal. Apiarian, or Apiarist? N. CAMERON. We are accused in the last Journal,
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 445 deserves the name of bee-keeper will do so either; but keep it in its place, and like alcohol and opium, it will be found that it was not made in vain. I made an addition to my apiary last spring and tind that I have now on hand some 25 or 30 queens that are neither superannuated or impure and will have to be replaced, and I intend to use the Lycoperdon as long as my supply holds out as I find it fills my biil exactly. Oakford, Pa., Sept. 17,1879. For tne American Bee Journal. Apiarian, or Apiarist? N. CAMERON. We are accused in the last Journal, of "riding a little hobby" on account of using a good adjective for a noun. This is nothing uncommon; there is hardly a page in the dictionary but one or more nouns and adjectives may be found with the same orthography. We are told that the difference of opinion was settled in vol. 13, p, 165, A. B. J. If the opinion of one man can settle a question of this character, then it is settled. But, alas! our best laid schemes " gang aft ; The old readers of the Journal will remember that this same question was settled by the Journal, vol. 7, p. Ill, the other way. Now, who can tell but the Jour- nal may again turn about on this question. While we accord to every- body the right to use " apiarian" only -as an adjective, we at the same time claim the right, with many other " dis- tinguished apiarians," to use it as a noun. Many, if not a majority of the leading writers on apiculture, both in this country and in Europe, use this word as a noun. It is a change that meets with favor from progressive men and we are for progress in the science of words as well as apiculture. All we asked was fairness. We doubt if there is another bee paper published in the world, that will not allow its corres- pondents to use in its columns " apia- xian" as a noun. The Journal, by substituting "apiarist" for its corres- pondents whenever the
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