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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



September, 1917 



Around the Office - Continued 



make this surging thought public. He 

 shouldn 't do such things in church. If lie 

 can and get away with it, then Uzzah wasn 't 

 treated square, not by a durned sight he 



wasn 't. 



* * * 



I don't know whether John C. Finlay, 

 breeder of Italian queen-bees at Kilwinning, 

 Scotland, is any friend of mine or not. Why 

 I am in doubt about it is because he wants 

 me to recommend beer (in a way) to Mr. A. 

 I. Eoot, after he (Finlay) knows perfectly 

 well what happened to me just for quoting 

 some ' ' language " of a roiled man who 

 hadn 't found the crank to the ' ' extracter ' ' 

 these Eoots had sent him. I won 't take any 

 more chances myself, for I have got house 

 rent to pay. So I am going to let Finlay 

 say it himself, and I don 't care much 

 whether the 500 miles of land and 3600 miles 

 of water between him and A. I. Root saves 

 him or not. Here is what Finlay slipped to 

 me, trying to get me to pass it along o. k.'d: 

 "I notice you now wish you 'had 'n 'adidit ' 

 about that fellow and the crank of his ex- 

 tractor. I do not wish Mr. A. I. Root to be 

 ' on you ' again, but here is a little tip on 

 uniting which we Scottish beekeepers use — 

 that is, spray the bees to be united with a 

 little beer. It works like magic. The bee ia 

 very quiet when intoxicated — unlike human 

 beings. We call this the 'beery method.' 

 Kindly recommend the above to Mr. Root. ' ' 

 Say, Finlay, you come over and recommend 

 it yourself. I positively don 't, won 't, and 

 wouldn 't and dasn 't. No, nix, not, never 

 and nevermore. Do you, Finlay, understand 



now? 



* * * 



My friend, R. A. Alden, of the Seattle 

 ' ' Times, ' ' sends me word of how a queen- 

 bee temporarily reduced Uncle Sam 's army 

 force out there by one man. It was "this 

 a way:" Avery Smith, a rancher living 

 hear Tacoma, Wash., hobbled into the re- 

 cruiting office of the Eighth Engineer Regi- 

 ment at Seattle recently all fussed up. 

 When he could get the attention of a 

 lieutenant he said: "I put this here queen- 

 bee in her little wood carrying box, Lieu- 

 tenant, an ' started hoss-back on ol ' Baldy 

 acrost the hills f'r the home ranch. Thru 

 the timber, where it was cool, the swarm 

 follered us peaceably enough; but out on 

 the prairie when the sun hit 'em them bees 

 got unpacifiod sudden, like a boiler bustin ' 

 up. They stang me an' they stang each 

 other an' they stang ol ' Baldy — which it 

 cost me $3 f'r a long-range telephone call 

 to find out the sheriff, liad stopped the crit- 

 ter five counties up state. Sheriff said they 

 was a quart of bees still festooned on ol' 

 Baldy, enjoyin' the ride. So, if I could lend 

 my boy Henry back from the army f'r a 

 couple of days he could haul me an ' the 

 queen-bee to the ranch in his automobeol 

 which can't get stang, whilst — " About 

 that time the Lieutenant liad heard enough. 



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.V two-frame nuc'eus and untested queen 

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 FOUL BROOD remember how little it af 

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