GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



October, Idlt 



Queens . Queens . Queens 



We are making a specialty of untested queens, and are prepared to send 

 either large or small quantities out promptly, generally by return mail. 

 Every queen guaranteed to be entirely satisfactory. We spare neither 

 labor nor money in producing the best queens. Quality counts the 

 most with us. 



One queen, 75c; 12, $8.00; 25 to 1000, 60c each 

 After July 15, one, 55c; 12, 50e; 25, 45c. 



One untested Miller queen, $1.00, $11.00 per dozen; 75c each in lots of 25 or more. Tested, 

 $2.00. Ex. Select Tested, $3.50. Breeders, $5.00 to $10.00 each. 



A two-frame nucleus and untested queen of this strain shipped on the tenth of May, 1916, 

 built up into a ten-frame colony and stored FOUR SUPERS OF COMB HONEY and the owner 

 says he believed they would have filled another super had he known enough to have given it to 

 them. 



In buying queens to fight EUROPEAN FOUL BROOD remember how little it affected DR. 

 MILLER with this same strain. 



The Stover Apiaries, Mayhew, Mississippi | 



TYPEWRITER SENSATION 



$2.50 



A Month Buys 

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L. C. SMITH 



Perfect machines only of standard size with keyboard of standard universal 

 arrangement — has Backspacer — ^Tabulator- — two-color 'ribbon. — Ball Bearing 

 construction — every operating convenience — Five Days Free Trial. E''ully guar- 

 anteed. Catalog and special price sent free. 

 H. A. SMITH, 370-231 North Fifth Avenue, CHICAGO, ILLINOIS 



Around the Office — Continued 



ing all previous cat speed records (including 

 her own just made) and getting into a 

 wider field of operations, seized her exactly 

 contemporaneously with her new-formed at- 

 tachment. They started off together, any- 

 way, taking the fish line and my old bass 

 reel along with them. She was ahead, of 

 course, and picked the trail. The rest start- 

 ed about the same time. Her interest in 

 temporal things in my room seemed to wane 

 completely and simultaneously, and she made 

 a bee line (that's the point where this arti- 

 cle touches on apiculture) for the nearest 

 window. The wire screen didn't check her 

 up a bit, altho it. did about three-^fourths of 

 her fur. That's in my room on the inside 

 of the screen yet. If she figured on leaving 

 anything hurtful to her feelings on the in- 

 terior side of that window screen she guess- 

 ed wrong. A No. 2 bass hook in man meat 

 or cat muscle is justly famous for staying on 

 the job, and a 40-pound test No. D bass line, 

 aided and abetted by a No. 2 bass hook on 

 which a cat has heedlessly sat down, will 

 follow faithfully along behind a cat consid- 

 erably longer than most cats think — and 

 keep a well-made reel coming along too. 

 Well, kitty never faltered, once out in the 



wide wide world, and as she went around the 

 corner of the house the reel hopped out 

 thru the hole in the screen, going 78 ^/^ miles 

 an hour and about 30 feet subsequently to 

 the head of the procession. So they were 

 off together, headed straight for my p»or 

 little tubercular garden. No garden could 

 stand it — not even Mr. A. I. Boot's nor 

 Stancy Puerden's. Dear old kitty herself 

 cleared my horticultural estate in about one 

 and one-third jump. But the confounded 

 reel caught on the first bean pole, the line 

 held and swung that cat clean around over 

 my late fall Chinese radish and purple- 

 topped turnip beds, and d-r-n-d (censored 

 some) if the line didn't saw off every 

 last one of them! Never faltering, she 

 started a new campaign up thru my late 

 tomatoes. You never in your life saw a cat 

 so set on a constant change of scenery as 

 she was. First, late radish and turnip land- 

 scape, then tomato scenery for her. Her 

 tail was straight out and horizontal-like, 

 bigger 'n a ball bat, and her eyes seemed set 

 on Pike 's Peak or further west. She was 

 gaited a sort of go-as-you-please-but-hmry- 

 along-cat-record-free-for-all run. I can't 

 trust myself now to speak further of my 

 late tomatoes, but kitty got thru and on 



