We, too, Mr. Editor, noticed the mention in the “Scientific American,” of the chicken roost bee arrangement to stop moths, and felt pained to think that anything, so far behind the times, should be found in that paper. Then, again, we noticed shortly after where they advised a correspondent to _chop_ up his combs and strain the honey out, and mentioned too that it _was said_ that the outside combs contained the nicest honey! Have Munn & Co., too, been sleeping in Rip Van Winkle style, or do they think us Bee Journal people not to be depended on? We have had many letters from highly intelligent people, even professors in colleges, asking about the melextractor and inquiring whether there was no serious objection to such unnatural treatment of bees? “Unnatural treatment,” indeed! About the 25th of last June, a farmer called on us to know where he could sell his honey best. On asking him how he had got it so early, he coolly informed us that he had _taken it up_, as _it seemed full_! But how about the brood? He didn’t know what we meant by brood, but had thrown away the young bees and did not think that they were of any use! Murdered thousands of young innocents before the end of June! Of course such treatment is perfectly _natural_ and right. He didn’t get much for his honey. Mr. Editor, we are getting hoarse in trying to explain, and all we tell inquirers now is to get the “_American Bee Journal_.” Yet many, many times they can’t afford it, and many more times don’t get time to read it. Yet the same persons will say--“Why, Novice, your forty-six hives of bees have been worth more to you than any hundred acre farm in Medina county,” and go home quite excited. We have had a few weeks’ drouth, the first this season, and it soon stopped the honey from autumnal wild flowers. Since Mr. Tillinghast suggested our being called “Expert” (or some such foolishness), we think we could hardly be honest without confessing some of our work this fall. For instance, we removed queen from No. 23, August 9th, and ten days after cut out thirty-two (32) queen cells. We have mentioned before that we tried hatching some of them in cages, and the rest were put in hives from which we had removed hybrid queens. We were such an _expert_ at the business that we hatched about one-half the thirty-two, and after they were hatched, we _bungled_ the life out of _every one_--some by artificial fertilization experiments; and the rest wouldn’t lay and finally died their “own selves.”