XKI'TiCMI'.KK, 1918 



GLEANINGS T N B E K C U L T U R E 



575 



Around the Office — Continued 



skin on such a sou of Satan as he sure is. 



* * * 



Chalon Fowls, over at Oberliu, O., is a 

 good beekeeper and sort o' soft at the 

 heart, too. So a lot of beginners go to him 

 to get started goin ' right. One of these 

 l)ulled up at his liouse the other day and 

 wanted to get live bee-escapes, altlio this 

 beginner has only one colony of bees. Mr. 

 Fowls asked why he wanted so many. "Oh," 

 said he, ' ' I put about five of 'em into one 

 escajje board and the bees get out just so 

 much faster." Still Mr. Fowls couldn't 

 see why and asked some more (luestious. 

 Then it showed up that this beginner feller 

 fitted five or six escapes into one escape- 

 board, put it on the ground and then put 

 the super on top of it there. ' ' Why not 

 leave the super above the hive body, and 

 just slip the escape-board between themf" 

 persisted the Socrates-like Chalon Fowls. 

 * ' Oh, my beginner 's book tells me to take 

 the escai:)e board and put the super on top of 

 it when I want to get the bees out. It don 't 

 say anything about puttin ' it between the 

 super and hive. So I do just as the book 

 says. ■ ' You old bee wiseakers will all be 

 laughin ' at this beginner. I ain 't. Some 

 first-class apicultural genious wrote that 

 beginner 's book. All of 'em know so much 

 about bees and take for granted a begin- 

 ner's kiiowin' so much that they shoot away 

 over the mark and make things just as clear 

 as mud to a beginner, so they do. 



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