Jan VARY, 1919 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



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Around the Office — Continued 



17c." By the shippin weight given, I cal- 

 late the mail order house don 't send the tree 

 for borin the hole in. How can anybody 



work it if they don't? 



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That feller Somebody of Rutherford, New 

 Jersey, writes two })ages urgin my ])icher 

 and name be printed in Glcanins. Nothin 

 doin. I aint good lookin, and I aint good 

 feelin except when I "m fishin and then there 

 aint no pesterin cameryman around. No, 

 sir, my picher'll never be in Gleanins. I 

 aint in no way stuck on myself as I know 

 of. Only one man on Gleanins force knows 

 who I am and he won 't tell. The Roots nor 

 lony Fowls haint any more 'n a guess who I 

 am, so they haint. 



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