Pkbiuakv, 1918 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



123 



AROUND THE OFFICE 



M.-A.-O. 



[N. B. — Don't anybody read this dep't who's lia- 

 ble to get their feelin's hurt and then jump onto 

 my back for it. My poor old back has got enough 

 onto it now and some more. — M.-A.-O.] 



This here around the ofSce department of 

 mine has been wanderin' some lately. For a 

 fact, it 's been concernin ' most everything 

 but the office. Epileptic cats, fishin ', potato 

 diggin ', potato neglect, skunks, Ab. Liutz 

 and injuries to my face, don't look much 

 like office affairs to me now as I look back 

 on 'em. They don't seem to be very invitin ' 

 subjects, either. But I am for mental free- 

 dom and liberal expression, as you all know, 

 and I don 't spend half of my time harnessin ' 

 my mentality and putting in the other half 

 goin ' around and askin ' people if they like 

 it. I am either fishin' or cloin ' somethin' 

 else I like to do or else insurgin ' agin 

 things as they be. Of the three, I prefer 

 fishin '. The last of the three enoomerated 

 makes me the most trouble. But lump 'em 

 all three together and practice 'em faith- 

 fully, and you '11 get more fun out of life 

 and do less general injury than President 

 Wilson, Eeed Smoot, Dr. E. F. Phillips or 

 even one Mr. E. E. Eoot, Esq., of Medina, 

 Ohio. You will so, especially if you lay em- 

 phasis on fishin', and remember what old 

 man Seneca said long ago, viz.: The least 

 bit more than enough that a man has is just 

 a burden onto him. 



Well, I see I am wanderin ' off the subject 

 again, which was to be a little more about 

 skunks. I hate to own up that I don't clean 

 a subject clean up as I go along. But there 

 is considerable about a skunk that don 't 

 clean up very fast if you go deep into the 

 subject. Anyway T am finding out, too, that 

 this skunk subject is a pretty broad one. 

 I have also got in some later returns on 

 Mel Pritchard as a skunk specialist and 

 odorless operator. Mel didn 't send 'em in. 



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 



Candy for Winter Stores 



Be sure your bees have enough for winter. 

 If they are short w© have just the thing you 

 want, "candy in large paper plates weighing 

 about two pounds each, enough to last three 

 to four weeks, two will go nicely on a hive. 

 Write for prices also catalog of supplies. 

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