GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



December, 1918 



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 the train and went out to Mountain View, 

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 won ill a altercation with Mr. Hall. 



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I know one set of dingbusted swarrain 

 bees that I bet got their craws full of travel- 

 in for oncet and wished they liad stayed 

 home. Wesley Foster of Colorado was tellin 

 about it here around the Roots ' office not 

 long ago when he w^as here. He said he 

 was shippin bees one day last spring from 

 his apiary in Colorado away up into Idaho 

 about 900 miles. He was makin big pack- 

 ages of 'em by sereenin the tops and bot- 

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