GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



August, 1917 



Around the Office — Continued 



page of Gleanings forevermore — 'raus rait 

 im. J. E. Crane, by his charitable refer- 

 ence in July Gleanings, has won a place 

 in my affections for quite awhile to come. 

 Anyway, I've recently decided not to be 

 fired, editors or no editors, and to stick back 

 here in these back pages like a pupi^y to a 

 root. • » « 



Now that that i^laguey, heart-breaking, 

 all-winter-and-half-the-summer experiment 

 of trying to mate queens in a big green- 

 house is ended, I want to tell you readers 

 that we are a chop - fallen crowd. We 

 thought we were going to be smarter than 

 anybody^-and we slipped up. That's just 

 it — we slipped up. Of course, we didn't 

 claim anything in advance nor toot our 

 horns previously, but we had 'em all ready 

 to toot loud, I'll tell you that, and it was 

 sort of humiliatin' to have to put 'em away 

 without a chance for even one single toot. 

 How like thunder and blazes we hated to 

 come right out in Gleanings, too, and say 

 we had foozled. Gosh ! how we did hate that ! 

 It almost prostrated me and the Root crowd, 

 and it completely subdued Mel Pritehard, 

 our queen-rearer. He has got an awful Ioav 

 opinion of drones right now. Says they 

 just bumped their old fool heads against 

 the iron beams of that gi'een house till their 

 heads ached so that they didn't know a vir- 

 gin queen from an airship. 

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The American Bee Journal editoi"s in theii 

 July issue say : " The production of honey 

 from dandelions has always been an un- 

 known quantity to us here," but " this year, 

 for the first time, we can report that our 

 own bees gathered honey from dandelions," 

 etc. I suppose it's sort of mean in me, 

 but I just wish that while dandelion honey 

 was yet an " unknown quantity " to them 

 they had i3ut a dandelion picture on their 

 first cover page and in an article on the 

 inside flashed the information on the b?e- 

 keeping world that " the dandelion produces 

 little or no honey." Seems to me I've read 

 somewhere that misery gets along better 

 with company. Gosh ! I do wish they had 

 got their foot into it too ! — and they " might 



of," for all I can see. 



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Here's another good use to which to put 

 honey. A beekeeper living at Brownstown, 

 Ind., writes : " From 23 colonies of bees 

 we have sold enough honey to send our old- 

 est boy to college." If that boy will be as 

 industrious at college as are the bees back 

 home that are paying his board, room and 

 tuition he will get something out of college 

 more than football, cigarets and a class yell. 



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