GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



September, 1917 



AROUND THE OFFICE 



M.-A.-O. 



The only way I can stick in ' ' Gleanings ' ' 

 at all any more anywhere is by saying the 

 very first thing in this September issue that 

 a lot of things I have written ain't so and 

 take it back. So I say it ain 't so and take 

 it back. For instance, that the squash bugs 

 in my garden that escaped some one's plan 

 of death-by-fright got as large and noisy as 

 partridges. I take part of that back. I '11 

 skin back the statement about Mel Pritch- 

 ard's thinking the drones in the greenhouse 

 mating experiment didn 't know a virgin 

 queen from an air ship. Mel couldn 't 

 a-known that. But I won't take very much 

 more back for nobody, so I won't. I am 

 sufferin' back here in these back pages of 

 ' ' Gleanings ' ' as an apostle and standard- 

 bearer of truth, and I am going to keep on 

 apostling and standard-bearing till the cows 

 come home. I am telling a durned sight 

 more truth than I am of the other kind back 

 here, and if I get kicked out and martyred, 

 it's because the editors can't stand it — so it 

 is. I am going out thru the back cover -page 

 with the banner of truth and progress flying, 

 when I go. But in a good many ways I am 

 like the mighty/ Muscovite revolution — once 

 started they can 't quell me. But, as I sai<l 

 up above, I take it back — just enough, that is. 



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A friend of mine down at Ada, O., who is 

 a beginner, made a bull's eye and rang the 

 bell when he shot this into some of the high 

 lords of beekeeping in a letter to me. 

 Here's his shot: "I am just a poor begin- 

 ner, and most of the time don 't know how 

 to proceed with my work with bees, for the 

 department editors of Gleanings advocate 

 this, that, and t'other. Each one says 

 he's right and the other fellow wrong — so, 

 who in samhill can I believe? I think 

 twelve beginners should be picked as a jury, 

 with A. I. Eoot as judge, and a verdict ren- 

 dered as to who are the sheep and who are 

 the goats among those department editors. ' ' 

 Gosh, but that tickles me! Hit 'em agen! 

 Let's us beginners and me square off against 

 the old bee highcockalorums every time we 

 get a chance (only I wish to except my 

 friend, J. E. Crane, who once said something 

 good about Man-Around-the-OfBce). 



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I guess the Roots did themselves some- 

 thing that they didn 't ' ' calullate ' ' on when 

 they took me by the scuff of the neck and 

 kicked me out back here in the advertising 

 columns. They didn't mean me any good, 

 that's sure. JBut it seems now they have 

 helped themselves as usual by slamming me, 

 for a sure good friend of mine away up in 

 North Yakima, Wash., writes a sympathetic 

 letter taking my side against all the edi- 

 tor crew, and says: "Gleanings must be 

 trying to help their advertisers, for no 

 sooner had I finished reading your pleasant 



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