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GLEANINGS IiN BEE CULTURE 



November, 1917 



Free 



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 any any one who 

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 given below. 



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As proofofour confidence and to strength- 

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Divide your orchard in half, no matter how large 

 or small. Spi-ay one-half with "SCALECIDE", 

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 every way better than that sprayed with Lime- 

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Send for new free booklet, 

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 I Church St. Dept.6 New 



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Dept. T, CLEMONS BEE SUPPLY CO., 

 128 Grand Avenue, Kansas City, Mo. 



Around the Office— Continued 



noticed that, when his skunkship is lunch- 

 ing off a hive of bees, some bees will crawl 

 out into the grass and sound the same pe- 

 culiar wail as do bees in the South when at- 

 tacked by Ted ants. He has seen a skunk 

 take note of this wailing sound, follow it 

 till he finds the bee, and then proceed to eat 

 it. As a final observation, our queen-rearer 

 says that perhaps the worst work of skunks 

 in an apiary is not the amount of bees de- 

 stroyed but the general demoralizattion that 

 the sknnks seem to work in the hive. They 

 put the bees to the bad, and completely un- 

 condition them. Finally, Mel recommends a 

 poultry fence, perhaps two feet high, well 

 grounded, placed entirely around the api- 

 ary, to beat the skunks. Now, that's talk- 

 ing more sense at one time than I am used 

 to. I have got to quit it right off. But I 

 thought you would forgive me for giving 

 you a little of Mel Pritchard 's natural- 

 history observations. For that sad-faced, 

 serious, bucolicky philosopher is some nature 

 observer I want to tell you. Oh, yes! about 

 that odoi'less n'lethod of- capture of his. I 

 almost forgot that. It's a regular humding- 

 er — Avhen it works. When it don 't work, 

 it 's a binger on the fellow trying to work 

 it, also a lasting regret and great disappoint- 

 ment (to the odorless operator, understand, 

 not to the skunk). But I am going to take 

 Mel's part in this discussion and defend his 

 system — if he '11 promise not to come over 

 here to the office and hang around for at 

 least a full month after the next time it 

 fails again. You see, Mel has been modest- 

 ly qualifying around these parts for some 

 years past as a sort of skunk expert. He 

 doesn't advertise to-eat- 'em-alive, eat- 'em- 

 alive while-you- watch; but he does give it 

 out rather confidentially to almost every- 

 body in this part of North America that he 

 can juggle with a skunk of average even 



Mel deiiionstrating: just how to do it — and hoping 

 the duindest iiothiiig: will happen. 



