October, 1918 



GLEANINGS IN B K K CULTURE 



037 



Around the Office — Continued 



any feller I know of just now. Tie's a knowl- 

 edgy cuss all round. I call him Philosopher 

 ■ — ^when he lets me get near cnougli to him 

 to call him anything. I am about as con- 

 genial and satisfyin to him as a red rag is 

 to a bull. He says I've lied about him and 

 the skunks, but I ain't so very much, so I 

 aint, and he knows I aint. Notwithstandin 

 this, I say Mel Pritchard knows a lot of 

 things and looks like a owl. He 's got a ant 

 theory that is a astonisher, and he's tryin' 

 to raise ants like bees and make 'em a 

 blessin to man. I'll bet he's right, too. I 

 tell you again Mel Pritchard is a smart sun- 

 ofagon, and he aint bad lookin' at the pho- 

 tographer 's. 



A earnest seeker after truth wrote into 

 Gleanins not long ago sayin: "How do 

 you determine the longevity of bees? I have 

 seen it stated in Gleanings that queens were 

 bred whose bees were long-lived." It's as 

 plain as the nose on the Kaiser's oldest 

 son 's face that this man was seekin real 

 information and clear light on a uncertain 

 bee subject, and also distrustin under his 

 \est some claims of some queen rearers. 

 Waal, what did he get? 



His question was p)ut up to lony Fowls, 

 now one of the chief spokes in Gleanins 

 brains — and she does know a whole lot — 

 and she ups and writes to this man F. R. 

 Davis at Bangall, N. Y., tellin him if he 'd 

 take a queen of a different race than hisn 

 and introduce her it would be easy to note 

 how long a time afore the first strain of 

 bees disappeared from the hive. Then she 

 adds this to him: "We must admit that this 

 method of determining the longevity of bees 

 is but seldom employed, and in general prac- 

 tice we fear that the longevity of bees is 

 more or less a matter of guess work. Of 

 course, there are queens that continue to lay 

 {Contimu'd on next pac/e) 



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