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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



Januaey, 1918 



Beeswax 

 Wanted 



In big and small shipments, 

 to keep Buck's Weed-pro- 

 cess foundation factory go- 

 ing. We have greatly in- 

 creased the capacity of our 

 plant for 1918. We are 

 paying higher prices than 

 ever for wax. . We work 

 wax for cash or on shares. 



Root's Bee-supplies 



Big stock, wholesale and re- 

 tail. , . Big catalog free. 



Carl F. Buck 



The Comb-foundation Specialist 



Augusta, Kansas 



Established 1899 



Eastern Beekeepers. 



You will need supplies for the coming 

 season and you had better prepare early. 

 Freight is very slow and at the high price 

 of honey you must surely be prepared. Send 

 us a list of what you want in the bee line. 

 Catalog free. 



I. J. Stringham, 105 Park PL, N. Y. 



Apiaries: Glen Cove, L. I. 



Around the Office — Continued 



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ends all of a suddent, feet up, and what swill 

 didn't go all over him went on the ground. 

 He managed to get on to his feet after 

 sprawling around about five minutes more 

 or less, madder 'n a wet hen, and tlie first 

 thing he did when he was fairly riz was to 

 use some i:terfectly awful language to them 

 pigs. He told them they were nothing but 

 gol-durned hogs any way and never would be 

 anything else, that they had always been too 

 ding-danged hoggish for anything, anyway, 

 and were yet. Then he let fly at them with 

 both the swill-pails just as hard as ever he 

 could. That upset him again harder than 

 the first time. It sort of shook him so that 

 he had to crawl over to the fence and pull 

 himself up by the rails. He ain't a young 

 man — only in temper. He rested a minute, 

 but kept talking awful strong to the pigs. 

 He then grabbed the top rail, off the fence 

 and started after those hogs hillycalarrup. 

 He fell down and clawed around. on the ice a 

 dozen times till he hadn 't any breath left 

 to talk with — and never got within ten rods 

 of a pig, either. He got back to where his 

 swill-pails were and then he jumped on both 

 of them till he had smashed them all to 

 pieces. He said he 'd teach 'em to trip him 

 up. He then went into the house — or crawl- 

 ed there, black and blue pretty much all 

 over — and everlastingly gave it to the poor 

 W'omen folks for being such everlasting ding- 

 dinged fools as to save up swill at all for 

 the pigs when a sleet storm was on. He then 

 had to go to bed and couldn 't get up for a 

 week — just so sore and lame ho was. So I 

 say it don't pay to get red-white-and-purple 

 mad and make a everlasting fool of your- 

 self. Not by a durnd sight it don 't.] 



Special Notices by A. I. Root 



A " GRISTMILL," FOR HOME GTSIN'DING. 



One of our readers criticises the little mill that 

 we mentioned some time ago for grinding wheat 

 iti the home, and referred me to what is called the 

 Blaokha\^'k gristmill made by A. H. Patch, Clarks- 

 ville, Tenn. This mill is a good deal like a coffee- 

 mill, but on a considerably larger scale. It has a 

 crank a foot long, which gives plenty of power 

 t-o grind corn, even if it is very hard and drv, 

 and some of the flint varieties. We find this mill 

 does excellent work for both wheat and corn. Yoa 

 can grind fine or coarse as you choose. But if you 

 wish to make any speed in your grinding it takes 

 considerable muscle. A strong girl or bov would 

 probably keep it going right along ; but if I had to 

 do the grinding for a family of any size I think I 

 should want to hitch on electricity or some kind of 

 power. The mill costs $3.00, and will be delivered 

 here in Ohio for $3.50. 



There is one thing I like about such a mill, 

 especially for grinding new corn. As Indian meal 

 does not keep very well it is better to grind it a 

 little at a time. The corn meal on the market has 

 the chit (perhaps the most nutritious part) removed 

 .iust because it is so liable to mold when ground, chit 

 and all. I think you will find your home-made meal, 

 when ground only as you need it, is quite a little 

 ahead of the corn meal you buy at the grocery ; and 

 I hardly need tell yon there is a tremendous saving 

 in making the shortest possible cut between pro- 

 ducer and consumer, or, in fact, letting the producer 

 and consum.cr be one and the same person as far as 

 possible. 



