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GLEANINGS IN BEE CUIjTURE 



December, 1918 



THIS MACHINE 



Makes Gardening Pay 



You Can Keep Your Garden in Perfect 

 Condition All Season Without the Tire- 

 some Work. 



BARKER 



WEEDER, MULCHER AND 

 CULTIVATOR 



Is pushed along the rows at an ordinary 

 walk. Blades revolving against station- 

 ary knife (like a lawn mower) destroy 

 the weeds and at the same time brealc 

 up the clods and crust -into a porous, 

 even mulch. 



For deeper cultivation, it has easily at- 

 tached shovels — making three garden 

 tools in one. 



"Best Weed Killer Ever Used" 

 The BAEKEE chops the weeds and up- 

 turns their roots. Works close to plants. 

 Guards protect the leaves. Cuts run- 

 ners. Leaves a mulch which draws and 

 holds the moisture at the plant roots. 

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BARKER M'FG COMPANY 



DEPT. 10 DAVID CITY, NEB. 



AROUND THE OFFICE 



M.-A.-O. 



Well, I 've been up agin it hard again this 

 past month. It jest seems as if Old Man 

 Trouble was a waitin for me with a big 

 club around every corner I turn and some 

 places he's square in the middle of the road 

 straight ahead unavoidable and not hidin 

 around no corner at all whatever but seemin 

 to advance on me purposely. I '11 give a ex- 

 ample. The uncontrollable powers as what 

 runs this universe as they please without 

 consultin anybody at all seen fit this year 

 to put the best three or four bass fishin days 

 of the whole summer just betwixt the end 

 of clover flow and the beginnin of buckwheat 

 flow. I felt the moral promptins and surgins 

 of duty to take off the partly filled supers of 

 clover honey and extract em when it orter 

 have been done, but I didn't yield to it. In 

 a unguarded moment I yielded to the bass 

 impulse about four or five days in succes- 

 sion, and when I got thru with this glorious 

 time I hadn 't no time for extractin nothin 

 except regrets for nqt doin what I oughter 

 have done when I oughter. I don 't know 

 what it is in my natur that has given me a 

 predisposishun to hold onto a fish pole rather 

 than the handle of a honey extractor. But 

 it has just so. I can make for the creek 

 down behind the woods on a good bass day 

 like a steer goin thru the corn, but I allays 

 seem dull and listless around a honey ex- 

 tractor. Well, you see I used my extractin 

 days of grace all up without doin any ex- 

 tractin, and the bees went right ahead with 

 the buckwheat harvest on schedool time. 

 They don 't have no bass temptations and 

 they seem to think the principal thing in life 

 is to break their fool necks workin. They 

 don 't know no better I spose, but it makes 

 me pretty nigh hate 'em sometimes, for 

 allays after yieldin to the promptins of fish- 

 in and gettin back to my apiary they seem 

 to be accusin me of shortcomins along the 

 work line. There they allays are with their 

 coats off, so to speak, overworkin as I see 

 it, and its a fact if I don 't feel mean around 

 em. I tell em they 're fools right to their 

 faces and that one hour of good fishin is 

 worth six weeks frayin out your wings gath- 

 erin honey for somebody to steal from you 

 and they jest keep on workin and I get to 

 feelin meaner and meaner all the time. But 

 I'm digressin. You can see that my extract- 

 in supers bein partly filled with clover honey, 

 me a fishin, and the bees a bringin in buck- 

 wheat honey, had a pretty good chance of 

 gettin filled up with mixed honey. Jest so. 

 When I came to extract this month the re- 

 sultin honey woant just exactly water white. 

 Nor it woant coal black. It was both. When 

 I tried to trade it for money to the Airline 

 Honey crowd they stuck up their noses at it 

 and tried to deppercate it. That didn't make 

 me think any less of it tho. But they knew 

 I had a partner in the honey producin biz- 

 ness what I had promised faithful I would- 



