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THE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER 



December 



Q?iil 



then in the November Bee-Keeper 

 Artie said bees pass dry faeces. Gosh, 

 don't he know all the veterans say 

 taint so? Where does he get all his 

 notions anyhow? Bye the bye, Georgia 

 makes mighty peculiar remarks 'bout 

 l)ees now and again. Never kept any, 

 did he? 



"Foul brood is said to be on the in- 

 crease in the southern portion of Ire- 

 land," which, I believe, coincides with 

 the notions of some alien landlords. 

 "Another short crop" in the British 

 Isles. We have 'em every year, and 

 consider "shorts good hog feed; also 

 "shorts are the mainstay of the 

 "bears" — the Wall street variety. No- 

 thin' 'tall to do with bees. 

 Editor Hutchinson wants some one 

 needn't be so all fired complaisant. I to formulate and submit a working plan 

 reckon he will find it warm enough for co-operative marketing. Modest in 

 without his bees. I'd pick out some his demands, isn't he? Just tell him 

 other spot than El Valle del Inferno that the producers of successful 

 for an apiary, 'specially if my bees were schemes of that sort get a goodly per 

 Syrians . cent of the capitalization, and the latter 



A powerful bad "spell" your compos- must be big or they don't do the work, 

 itors have had. Been up against some see! 



Dear Bro. Hill: 



So 'tis to Hell Valley, is it, that Dr. 

 Pons is going? Who told him to? He 



'lection "spell binders" aint they? 



President-Grandpa Hutchinson says 

 he believes "we are upon the eve of 



This 'ere way o' askin' the simple- 

 minded gullible boys to "give" what 

 costs red corpuscles just because "we 



the next great stage in apiculture." be bretheren" is — ah — wearisome. You'll 

 Well, here's hoping that he and the 

 rest of we uns don't get stage struck. 



Strange sort of "locality" in Medina, 

 O., where "second crop" red clover 

 yields honey and "second crop" white 

 clover doesn't. 



Quoth Bro. Aiken: "Putting up ex- 

 tracted honey for the retail trade is a 

 burning question." Humph! If that's 



find the gentle beggars are "heeled" 

 either in cash or associates so as to 

 wax fat on the fruit of the gullible 

 brothers' blood. 



"Would you, when thieves are known 



abroad. 

 Bring forth your treasures in the road? 

 Would not the fool abet the stealth. 



his way I don't trade with him I don't Who rashly thus exposed his wealth?" 

 like burnt honey. He also talks of the 



Yours as ever, 



John Hardscrabble. 



efforts to make both ends meet on $200 

 to $600 per year. Tell the boys to try 



Rambler's way — one end meat and t'oth- 



er vegetables. The Fred W^ Muth Co., who quotes 



If that little Rhode Island Miller the Cincinnati market in our columns, 



don't look out he'll be asked to "splain" advise us that their quotations are the 



some of his revolutionary statements, selling price, and not the prices which 



Georgie York calls him down for some they pay. Bee-keepers should l)ear this 



things he said about queen rearing, and in mind. 



