Januarv, 1918 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



59 



RHODKS DOUBLE CUT 

 PRUMIISG SHEAR 



RHODES MFG. CO. 



528 S. DIVISION AVE., GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. 



•THE only 

 pruner 

 made that cuts 

 from both sides of 

 the limb and does not 

 bruise the bark. Made in 

 all styles and sizes. All 

 shears delivered free 

 to your door. 



Write for 

 circular and 

 prices. 



Queens gggg Jjy ^Jj^ Pound Q"^*'"' 



Three-banded and Golden Italians. The best of either. They are huKtler.s — gentle to handle, 

 cap their honey white, are very resistcnt to European foul brood. We have added B. M, Car- 

 away's queen-rearing ontlit to ours; also have with us one of his assistants, so we hope to fill 

 all orders promptly. We had fine success last season shipping bees by the pound in our newly 

 devised shipping-cage, a number of shipments going as far as Idaho and Wyoming. Mr. R. B. 

 Millis, Corinth, N. Y.. wrote, " Bees arrived in fine .«hape; not 50 dend bees to the cage." 2-Ib. 

 size. Satisfaction and safe arrival guaranteed. Reference: The Guaranty State Bank, RoTas- 

 town, Texas, or The City Nat. Bank, Corpus Cbrisli, Texas. 



1 6 12 50 100 



Untested Queens $1.15 ^ 6.35 $11.50 $ 43.70 $ 85.00 



Select Tested 2..''j0 11.50 20.70 74.75 138.00 



B.-es, 1 -lb. package 1.75 9.80 18.40 74.75 138.00 



Bees, 2-lb. oackage 2.90 17.25 33.95 132.25 240.00 



When ordering pound packages add price of queen wanted. 



Get our prices on empty lee-cages. (Jirciilar Free. 



j NUECES VALLEY APIARIES, Calallen, Texas, hereafter will be known as | 



I Nueces County Apiaries, Calallen^ Texas | 



i E. B. AULT, Proprietor 1 



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Around the Office — Continued 



What it was? Yes, and what was it also? 

 Furthermore, what could it have been, too? 

 Where was my right eye? Also my right 

 occipital bone and upper right clavicular 

 cheek bone? Had they suddenly left for 

 good? Were they on the stall floor or out in 

 the cold night on the ground? Was there 

 more of me left or was the most of me 

 knocked off? Had the old barn fallen on 

 me, or had I knocked the old barn off its 

 foundation unintentionally with my right 

 eye and right side of my face? Which? It 

 was too dark for my left eye to gather any 

 general information on the subject, even if 

 the newly discovered stars and constellations 

 hoverin' around just then had not been so 

 everlastingly dazzlin' and attractive. But 

 as general pain f eelin 's and comeback from 

 shock set in, things got more normal, and 

 some part of me finally located the hand'e of 

 my old lawn-mower cussedly and firmly stick- 

 ing downward about eye-high in tlie exact 

 latitude and longitude where I had just been 

 trying to straighten up and reconstruct my 

 late backbone. That must of been it. It 

 was so voted by me. I had put the lawn- 

 mower up in there instead of in the tool- 

 house about the time the la't rose of su!;imer 

 was left blooniin ' alone. You can usually 

 put a lawn-mower up for winter in any old 



place where it will stick in, a good deal 

 easier than you can put it where it belongs. 

 It saves labor also. It may, moreover, wear 

 out a good deal quicker and you can then tell 

 j^our wife you ain 't got any more money to 

 buy lawn-inowers with and you will just 

 have to get along without one for a few sea- 

 sons or until you get a whale of a honey 

 crop. But I didn't admit that lawn-mower 

 handle 's right to dismantle the right side of 

 my face, even if I had put it up there as 

 perhaps I oughnter. It was no time for it 

 to do it in the dark, anyway, secret and just 

 after I had been sorting and carrying away 

 eighteen bushels of potatoes to save them 

 from freezing. Not by a jugful. I was 

 madder than my fishin ' neighbor, Ab Lutz, 

 was oncet when his old cow swished her tail 

 across his face when he was milking her in 

 his barnyard. He bit right in to her tail 

 with all his teeth, he did, and when as re- 

 sulting from the bite she started right out 

 prompt to see and visit all the adjoinin ' 

 country he hung right on, keeping his teeth- 

 and-tail holt till she brushed him off down 

 among the trees in the woods. That's just 

 about how mad I was. So I had got along 

 to about the 17th language stanza and the 

 .3.'51st crack at that ding-binged, son-of-a-sea- 

 cook of a lawn-mower handle with a three- 

 by-four scantlin ' that I clawed and gnawed 



