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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



April, 1917 



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THERE are 

 indications- 

 a - p 1 e nty 

 that honey is 

 more and more 

 coming into fa- 

 vor with the 

 cook. A letter 

 received at tthe 



Home of the Honeybees from Paris, date of 

 Jan. 30, signed I. Curtise, says : " Have 

 just seen an advertisement of your cook- 

 book of 100 recipes for things in whicli 

 honey can be used instead of sugar. 

 As sugar is now increasingly difficult 

 to get in France I should be grateful 

 to you if you would take the trouble 

 to send me your book." An aeronaut, 

 H. C. Davis, of East Orange, N. J., has 

 recently written to ask for an Airline honey 

 cook-book, saying " it is to supplant my 

 wife's Orthodox Presbyterian Cook-book, 

 used for 18 years and now worn out — so am 

 I, almost — and so she has decided to try a 

 new style on me." The flyer adds that liis 

 wife may find a recipe in the book that will 

 cause him to " soar to heights unknown." 

 What does that last meau"? 

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Hermann Rauchfuss and son, Frank, of 

 Denver, Colo., were visitors at the office re- 

 cently, and mighty welcome thej? were. If 

 they don't know something about the bee 

 and honey business, nobody does. Mr. Her- 

 mann Rauchfuss is a booster for Cauca- 

 sians, but he would not introduce them 

 where pure Italians have already be?n in- 

 troduced. He tells of a strain of Cauca- 

 sians that he once owned that were practi- 

 cally as gentle and stingless as flies. He 

 admits, however, that they gather a good 

 deal of propolis. The son, Frank Rauch- 

 fuss, managed one rather large yard, giving 

 to it less than one day a week thruout the 

 last season, but secured an average of 150 

 pounds of comb honey per colony. That is 

 " going some " for a comb-honey outyard. 

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You'll be kicked if you do, and be kickt'd 

 if you don't, is just another way of saying 

 it — so that it doesn't sound quite so bad. 

 To get down to what we are driving at : 

 Gleanings requires its advertisers of bees 

 and queens to answer satisfactorily a list of 

 questions as to qualification to produce 

 properly what they wish to advertise, and 

 ability to fill orders promptly for the same. 

 This procedure is taken solely to protect 

 (tLEAnings' readers against poor stock and 

 delayed delivery. Every reputable queen 

 and bee rearer is glad to give such informa- 

 tion to publishers of their advertisements. 

 But there are others. One such showed up 



AROUND THE OFFICE 



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on the Glean- 

 ings landscape 

 this month, dis- 

 playing all tlie 

 symjittoms of an 

 irritated hornet. 

 Here are some 

 of his stings : 

 " Every queen- 

 breeder you Roots can keep from adver- 

 tising, you have one less competitor;" 

 " I know as much as you or any of 

 your tribe about the bee business;" " I sup- 

 pose when 3'ou advertise Airline honey the 

 advertisers quizzed you down to know that 

 3'our bees did not suck any sugar-barrel lids 

 or gather any bug-juice before they took 

 your ad;" "I expect to. take this mat- 

 ter up with Dr. Phillips and the postal au- 

 thorities to know your limits to refuse me 

 advertising space," etc. Hit 'em again. 

 Yea, verily, you'll be kicked if you do, and 

 you'll be kicked if you don't. 



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It has always been reported — and gener- 

 ally accepted as a fact — that it was a high 

 and merry time "when Belshazzar the king 

 made a great feast to a thousand of his 

 lords," and himself led off in lapping up 

 the wine and embracing the ladies present. 

 But that was a " picked-up " supper after 

 a long ride in the rain compared with the 

 time last week in the office when it was 

 announced finally and at last and for 

 sure that the new ABC and X Y Z of Bee 

 Culture was all printed and being bound. 

 The sales department and Gleanings^ sub- 

 scription department didn't go Belshazzar 

 one or two better, on the strength of this 

 news, only because they didn't know how. 

 They felt like Belshazzaring all right 

 enough. Any wfty, let's shake hands all 

 round on the completion of the 1917 edition 



of the A B C. 



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Here's a pretty fairly good one, as good 

 ones go nowadays. A sure-enough beginner 

 i-ecently wrote a be^veepei-s' supply com- 

 pany in Ohio that he was contemplating 

 buying a colony of bees from a man who 

 had been running for extractf>d horev only, 

 and added : " Now what T would like to 

 know sure is, will the bees that he has 

 been using for extracted be all right for 

 me to use for comb honey?" The sales 

 manager's clerk, who didn't care much about 

 his job, as app:?ared from subsequent events, 

 replied as follows: "Just delacli tlieir ex- 

 tractoi-s and they Avill soon get over tlie 

 habit." The Man-Around-The-Office would 

 liave never, never fired tliat clerk. T would 

 have advanced his pay and made him head 

 foolkiller of all beedom. 



