OCTOBliK, 1918 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



635 



Around the Office — Continued 



I use it I just mean bisulphide and nothin 

 else at all whatever. If I can 't say bi Sul- 

 phide once in awhile in bee stiiigin times 

 and \vhen fish aint a bitin, I am likely to 

 go backsli<lin on language reform foi'cver. 

 A feller 's just got to have a little vent when 

 the bees are a peekin it to him, and no sym- 

 pathy at home or over here around the of- 

 fice eitluM' one. 



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Some anonymous sunofagon has tried to 

 sass me by sendin in this one: "Teacher — 

 Name a fisherman mentioned in the Bible. 

 Pupil — Ananias. ' ' That may have applica- 

 tion to my fishin friend, Ab Lutz, or to F. 

 L. Mason up at Mechanics Falls, Maine, but 

 not to me, so it don't. 



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' ' Last summer I got mad, and I paid right 

 out $10 for a swarm of bees, hive, suj^er and 

 foundation, and as I didn't know a thing to 

 do to 'em, they made me 75 pounds of fine 

 honey; but since I've been reading Glean- 

 ings, I 've learned so many things to do to 

 bees (and done 'em, too) that the little fel- 

 lows look pretty sick, and the results of 15 

 years of bee efforts are all going to smash. 

 Next time I 'm going to read the M.-A.-O. 

 pages and cut out the Eoots — if I ever get 

 another start in bees, so I am. — C. E. Wes- 

 ton, Inkon, Ida. [Bi Sulphide, that 's what 's 

 puttin fat onto my ribs. Just to think of 

 havin people all over this country and out 

 in Idaho preferrin my kind of beekeepin 

 combined with fishin to the Roots' and Doc 

 Miller's and Hi Mogul Phillips' beekeepin. 

 I am feelin better. As my old Dad used to 

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