GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



July, 1919 



AROUND THE OFFICE 



M.-A.-O. 



PATENTED 



Wright's Frame -Wiring Device 



Most rapid in use. Saves co§t of machine in one 

 day. . Tighter wires; no kinks; no sore hands. 



G. B, Lewis Company, Watertown, "Wisconsin 



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Beeswax 

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In big and small shipments | 



to keep Buck's Weed-pro- | 



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I Root's Bee -supplies | 



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Carl F. Buck | 



I The Comb-foundation Specialist | 



f Augusta, Kansas | 



I EstabUshed 1899 | 



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Praps after you beekeepers have read 

 Ilersheiser 's article on skunks in this edi- 

 shun you wont all be stickin up your noses 

 at Philosopher Mel Pritchard for tryin to 

 know how to handle em to best advantage. 

 Hersheiser aint no fool and he dont go off 

 at half cock neither and he says skunks is 

 all fired bad stuff for bees, and serous busi- 

 ness. Thats jest what a lot of beekeepers 

 is writin Gleanins so lony Fowls says. The 

 skunks seem to be havin their day every- 

 where and that day growin bigger. The law 

 here in Ohio protects em jest as in 

 York State. Thereby injurin me both in 

 my apiary and in my fur industry. If theres 

 one thing I love better 'n catchin a good 

 fish its to peel a part of my livin right off 

 some varmit 's back. Its some easier 'n 

 workin by the day and then too its a satis- 

 fackshun to even up with a varmit. I wish 

 squash bugs was furred good, so I do. I 'd 

 skin em afore they was dead. But I started 

 out on skunks and I'm goin to continoo my 

 discourse and try to make myself useful to 

 beekeepers about skunks, for I aint all fool 

 about skunks so I aint.. I know somethin 

 about em as well as Mel, and when Doc 

 I'hillips at Washinton in charge of api- 

 culture buro of entomology U. States dept. 

 of agriculture Washinton, D. C, wakes up 

 to the cryin need of a skunkologist in api- 

 culture work I'm a candidate, so I am. He'll 

 hear from me and my friends too so he will 

 when the time comes. But I am digressin 

 for I get to thinkin of occupjdn that of- 

 fishal posishun and I cant think of nothin 

 else. Hersheiser and Mel needn 't try for 

 it neither so they neednt. To show I have 

 some qualificashuns for the posishun in ques- 

 tion I want to tell how I beat the ornery 

 tail pointin low down bee eatin varmits last 

 year — and I aint a foolin about it either. I 

 done it. I took some medium chicken fence 

 wire fully wide enough to extend 

 six or eight inches beyond each side the 

 hive, and about 18 inches the other way, and 

 took a pair of wire cuttin shears and cut 

 back into the wire 8 inches in two places so 

 as to fold back flat the wire mesh for 8 

 inches at the center jest the width of my 

 hives. Then with staples I fixed sharp 

 sticks onto each inner and puter corner. Then 

 my wire mesh when in place for business ex- 

 tended 8 inches along each side of the hive 

 havin a width of six or eight inches on those 

 sides and 10 inches of wire mesh out in 

 front, part of it in front doubled, all of 

 which was held in place by the sharp stakes 

 about two inches above the ground. It did- 

 nt take no time to put this skunk tanglefoot 

 down if I had cut the wire right, and it 

 didn't take but mighty little time to cut 

 the wire to same measurement each one and 

 staple the sharp sticks on the corners. This 

 consummit invenshun could be taken up 

 with nigh to no trouble at all, and you some- 

 times want to take it up but you can work 



