GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



May, 1919 



Around the Office — Continued from p- 337. 



for I couldn't get a word in edge wise but 

 I would keep thinkin it sounded somethin 

 like discord and come over to the office here 

 to oncet to get away from it. But probably 

 it aint the same in a beekeepers ' conven- 

 tion. It is jest keen interest there. It 's 

 the same thing as when Mel Pritchard and 

 lony Fowls and Ernie Eoot get keen inter- 

 ested in some beekeepin topic in Gleanins 

 office. It stops work out in the business of- 

 fice for people as has to work with figgers 

 like to be able to hear themselves think 

 at times. But I guess Mott and his friend 

 are right about it praps, and there is only 

 high tenshun accord and keen interest in 

 a beekeepers' convention. Anyhow, when I 

 hear the old cat a screamin and meaowin 

 and a spittin and a howlin and a 

 whoopin it up Willyum Eiley over at my 

 house next time just cause the old coon 

 dog has got holt of her dorsal porshuns and 

 is chewin considerable there, I aint goin to 

 worry about its bein discord so I aint. It 

 aint discord atall. Its only a case where 

 they are both interested the almightiest in 

 contemporanus events, and I am jest goin 

 to think of the interest at beekeepers ' con- 

 ventions and go on diggin angle worms and 

 try to get down to the creek afore somebody 

 with considerable inflooence at my place ap- 

 pears at the backdoor and says the lawn 

 needs mowin again when you 've got the 

 potatoes hoed. 



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H. B. Bartlett-Miller of Kihikihi, Wai- 

 kato, N. Z., writes me he's a big beekeeper 

 and New Zealand has the best trout fishin in 

 the world as trout average about 8 lbs. in 

 season. That aint kind, Mr. Miller, special- 

 ly if you aint drawin a long bow on N. Z. 

 trout sizes. Its gettin nice bass weather 

 here now and my garden aint planted and 

 I dont need to be reminded anythin about 

 fishin for my peace of mind. You neednt 

 sencl any more fishin news so you neednt 

 unless you see that it gets here about mid- 

 winter or sometime when my lovin wife is 

 absent from home or when my garden is all 

 made and hoed fine. I have enough tempta- 

 shun in Rocky Creek right near home to ras- 

 sle with this time of year allays without 

 havin 8-lb. trout in New Zealand thrown up 

 to me. Bi sulphide tho I wish I was helpin 

 Mr. Miller in his apiary this comin trout 

 season. 



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As the squash bug season is a loomin on 

 the garden horizen again I guess I better 

 let Eobt. Elwell of Rumford, R. I., into my 

 dept. to say the follerin: "Tell Steve T. 

 Byington that Massachusetts isn 't free of 

 bugs, yet I alternately dusted with wood 

 ashes and sprayed with pyrox all last sum- 

 mer and still had squash bugs left. They 

 were thicker than hair on a dog (haven 't 

 counted fleas)." Let me tell you, Mr. El- 

 well, you aint got nothin in the way of pisen 

 or other destroyin substances that you can 



pile onto a squash bug that wont make him 

 grow prosperous and feel better. I've got 

 down to "Uncle Amos's" system of hand 

 ]>it'kin em. It works tho it does bring on 

 backache and language. 

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That man L. L. Andrews out at Corona, 

 Calif., one of the biggest beekeepers any- 

 where, is attractin my affecshun for he 

 seems to be a feller traveler to the grave as 

 what has human feelins and has a heart. He 

 writes me to the follerin effect: "Why is it 

 that when a fellow just gets so much NEC- 

 ESSARY bee work that he don't know 



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