May, 1919 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



which way to turn, the wcatlior is just ideal 

 and liis longings are just riveted on that 

 tiout stream where those big fellows are just 

 biting ' seandalous ' ? Seems nothing but a 

 few days 'neath cooling shade beside rush- 

 ing water ' will again put him in normal con- 

 dition to properly care for the bees." The 

 only difference atween me and Andrews as 

 beekeepers is that he keeps his longins 

 riveted on the creek while I unrivet em 

 and get down onto the creek myself, bees or 

 no bees, swarms or no swarms. I get more 

 fish that way than by keepin my longins 

 tight riveted. I aint mucli for keepin fishin 



longins riveted. 



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Thanks to whoever that feller was down 

 in Greenwich, Conn., who sent me all them 

 tracts on "Hell." They're jest what I 

 need at this fishin and gardenin time of 

 year. The more I get scared into doin as 

 what I orter do in May and June the 

 better for me. Its a tryin time to a fisher- 

 man-beekeeper and a time when his new 

 years resolutions has generally got prettj' 

 wobbly. Some regeneratin beekeeper down 

 near Northampton in Mass. might send me 

 a few of Preacher Jonathan Edwards' pulpit 

 pichers of the hereafter as what you dont 

 want. They say there aint no better for 

 morally bracin totterin human natur. If 

 anybody else has any literatoor about the 

 present or more especially the hereafter as 

 will keep a fisherman beekeeper tendin his 

 bees in May and June when he orter, send 



it on. It'll be better for my garden too. 



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I sometimes get a opportunity to snoop 

 around in Gleanins waste basket when 

 Wilyum brings it out of the editorial den to 

 dump it in the big waste paper catchall. 

 These investigations of mine has led me to 

 believe they don 't print all what is sent 

 em. For instance, Edw. McCoy up at Eiver- 

 dale, Mich., wrote em somethin as they did- 

 n 't seem to value sufficient to print. Here 

 is jest exactly what it was: "My time for 

 Gleanings has expired this month, so I will 

 say stop it. They have been trying to make 

 it better and spoiled it to my notion. Been 



nothing much but wintering and feeding all 

 the fall in it. I don't have to feed and have 

 wintered for a long while, so don't have to 

 read about it every month, and the writers 

 have chewed the rag so long they ought to 

 be handed a fresh one so as to have some- 

 thing fresh to chew on. Stop it now." I 

 pulled that jule of feelin frankness out of 

 the waste basket, so I did, and give it to 

 the waitin public. It orter do the editors 

 some good. I hope McCoy will write some 

 more. But I bet the Gleanins waste basket 

 will be used more careful in the future. 



Classified Advertisements Received Late. 



FOR SALE. — Three-banded leather-colored Ital- 

 ians, of the celebrated Moore strain with tested 

 queens, reared last season, in eight-frame Langstroth 

 hives, at $12.00 a colony. 



.lohn Hutchinson, Lake City, R. D. No. 2, Mich. 



One of the best queen breeders in the United 

 States is now raising queens for us from selected 

 leather-colored Italians. We ol¥er warranted queens 

 at $1 each or $90 per hundred. Tested queens, $2 

 each. Satisfaction and safe delivery guaranteed. 

 Queens ready May 25. Order now as our supply is 

 limited. 

 The Foster Honey & Mercantile Co., Boulder, Colo. 



FOR SALE. — 3000 cases, practically new 5-gallon 

 cans, used once, at 50c a case. 



Waher C. Morris, 105 Hudson St., New York. 



FOR SALE. — ^150 section cases nailed up with 

 glass front holding 20 4x5 sections each, at 20c 

 each ; 40 ten-frame Dovetailed full-depth bodies with 

 full drawn combs built on full sheets foundation, 

 wired Hoffman frames at $2.00 each. 



Hyde Bee Co., Floresville, Tex. 



FOR SALE.— Leather-colored untested Italian 

 queens, June and July, $1.00 each, 6 for $5.00. 

 J. M. Ciitts, Montgomery, R. D. No. 1, Ala. 



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