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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



Mar. 15. 



Bee Journal, and commenced work upon it 

 with considerable enthusiasm ; but I made a 

 dismal failure of it ; for every time I set out 

 on the new line of spelling, the subject-matter 

 of the article or letter would claim my whole 

 attention, and unconsciously I would be spell- 

 ing right along according to the old way. It 

 cost me several years of close application to 



it is the poor fellow's only amusement, and 

 we shall have to put up with it. 



HOW I,UCK CHASES THE WISCONSIN BEE- 

 KEEPHRS. 



I was spinning up Figueora St., in Los An- 

 geles, the other day, and met a gentleman and 

 lady also on wheels. We both shouted " hel- 



CALIFORNIA HOREHOUND. 



spell the old way, and I will leave it to the 

 editor that I am tolerably good at it, and I 

 have come to the conclusion that I will let 

 well enough alone, and not bother any more 

 trying to learn the new way. I was just think- 

 ing that it must take the editor of the Ameri- 

 can Bee Journal an immense amount of time 

 to^queer over so many words ; but I suppose 



lo ! " in concert, turned our steeds to the side- 

 walk, dismounted, and had a little visit. The 

 gentleman I had run against was Mr. Frank 

 McNay, that wealthy bee-keeper from Wis- 

 consin, and the gentleman who went on a 

 Crow-hunt with me last winter. Mr. McNay 

 spent the honey season in Wisconsin with his 

 bees, secured a fine crop of honey, sold it for 



