November, lOlS 



C} LEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



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BEES Tested Italian Queens, $1.50 



We furnish full rolonies of bees in single-walled and double- 

 walled hives. Nucleus colonies and bees by the pound. 

 Write for what you need. 



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Complete Line of 



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j F. Coombs & Sons, Brattleboro,Vt. | 



Positively the cheapest and strongest light on earth. 

 Used in every country on the globe. Makes and 

 burns its own gas. Casts no shadows. Clean and 

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The ad. I put in the September 

 GLEA.NINGS calling for a few 

 good colonies of bees brought 

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 least 15.00 per colony. 



Howard E. Harriman 

 Prospect, Me., Sept. 20, 1918. 



AROUND THE OFFICE 



M.-A. O. 



W. A. Gridley of Los Molinos, Calif., 

 wrote this here on Sept. 18: "Gleanings 

 satisfies nic, but I wish you could shake 

 more out of Mel Pritchard. Ain't he a 

 lazy old cuss? I wish he enjoyed writing as 

 much as I enjoy his articles." Then on 

 Oct. 4, after Gridley has got his October 

 Gleaning, he up and writes this: "Thanks 

 to M.-A.-O. for Mr. Pritchard 's photo, page 

 636, last Gleanings. It is the best thing 

 M.-A.-O. has ever turned out. Mr. P. is a 

 nice looker. Wish he would write more for 

 us. He never w^astes printers' ink, but al- 

 ways gives us facts that are proved. I have 

 accused him of being a lazy old cuss. That 

 was before seeing his picture. I think now 

 it is due to lack of confidence. I will 

 apologize to him when we meet. ' ' That 's 

 what Gridley wrote exactly, that cuss word 

 CU.SS and all, just so. I have got my opinion 

 of any one indulgin in such language, so I 

 have, and Dr. Miller says he has. I w^ant 

 the language reformers who saved' me, to get 

 right after peelin Gridley and skin him 

 alive, so I do, by Sulphide. But I' have a lit- 

 tle somethin myself to say to Mr. Gridley. 

 He says Mel Pritchard 's photo is the best 

 thing M.-A.-O. has ever turned out. Is Mel's 

 picher the best thing I ever done? Well, 

 then either Mel ought to be very proud of 

 hisself or I oughter retire aw^ay in the rear 

 sine di. And I want to know how Gridley 

 by just lookin at Mel 's picher knows he 

 ain't a lazy old cuss but is lackin in self 

 confidence? Is that so? Has Gridley ever 

 saw Mel pick a skunk up by the tail, or seen 

 him tie into Editor E. E. Eoot on some bee- 

 keepin question? I aint never seen any 

 lack of confidence on such occasions as them, 

 so I aint. Why, I see him a smokin one 

 day so near to Mr. A. I. Root that ' ' Uncle 

 Amos" was almost lost in the smoke screen 



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