"As it is, I am very desirous of making it known to our continental
and American friends that these letters [in _The Times_] do not convey
an adequate idea of the amount of knowledge of the subject possessed
by British bee-masters."
His letter, he reiterates, was written for the American market. I
only hope they will not suppose that his crotchets are the measure of
the amount of knowledge possessed or of the affection felt by English
bee-masters.
If in his next he will mix a little honey with his ink, and eat a
little at breakfast, he will do greater justice to himself.