GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



November, 1917 



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 .Tulv 15, one, 55c; 12, 50c; 25, 45c. 



One unteiteil Miller queen, $1.00. $11.00 per dozen; l^c 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 nut ieus and untested queen of this strain shipped on the tenth of May, 1916, 

 built up into a ten-frame colony and stored FOUR SUPERS OP COMB HONEY aud 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 



Around the Office — Continued 



undertaking the enterprise, etc. Mel, right 

 off the bat, assured the good neighbor it was 

 almost as easy as rolling off the proverbial 

 log, and proceeded at once and successfully 

 to take a cord out of his pocket, tie a slip 

 noose in it, rig it to the fork of a stick, 

 slip it over the skunk's tail (soothingly), 

 tighten the slip knot, and hoist that skunk 

 out of the pothole and suspend him from a 

 limb of a nearby tree, where he dangled with 

 his feet on nothing — no atmospheric disturb- 

 ance, either — slick as a greased pig's ear. 

 "There, neighbor," said Mel, "you can 

 kill that skunk with a club now, skin him, 

 and go right from here to church. You see 

 he can 't get his feet on anything. ' ' The 

 neighbor never faltered. One whack over 

 the skunk 's head set him to whirling around 

 and around — also a fine, greenish, bluish, 

 purple iTIist. A more perfect revolving, self- 

 acting sprayer has never been devised. The 

 neighbor was trustingly well within the 

 zone of action. Mel says he (Mel) wasn 't. 

 His wife says he was. Everybody concerned 

 testifies that in about one-third second there 

 was a good deal of greenish, bluish, purplish 

 something in the air besides mist of fore- 

 said colors. Mel admits this was large.y 

 directed at him, and was mostly made up 

 of sound. He also says he couldn 't 

 get up any explanation good enough to be 

 accepted wholly or even in part. The neigh- 

 bur seemed real provoked about something, 

 and rude, and also persistently talkative. 

 Mel says he can't now recall the entire 

 conversation down there in the woodlot, but 

 knows more of it was directed to him than to 

 the skunk, and. mostly sounded like "You 

 Jjnow ah — of a lot about skunks, you do," 

 etc., and so on. Mel says he remembers he 



came away about that time. His wife says 

 that why she thinks Mel was within range 

 as well as the neighbor was that she got 

 on to his coming home before he got in sight 

 from back of the barn. Any way, Mel 

 says that ever since that time he has held 

 as entire bosh the theory that a skunk with 

 ills four feet off the ground and in mid air 

 can't hang out the sign, "Business. aS' 

 usual." Nine times out of ten he won't, 

 but the tenth time he may. 

 » « * 

 If I were certain of ever returning to this 

 momentous question at some future time 

 for a really exhavistive discussion of it, 1 

 wouldn't now add that Mel not so long ago 

 offered some expert advice and, dissertation 

 to Mr. Kellogg, the man in charge of the 

 A. I. Root Co. 's ledger department, as to 

 how to remove one mother skunk and her 

 young ones from said Kellogg 's cellar where 

 they had clandestinely domiciled. Mel com- 

 [detely gained our expert bookkeeper's con- 

 lidence, in some way or other, who tried it 

 on. Mel says he failed to follow directions, 

 or used bad judgment at a critical moment. 

 Kellogg says he didn't. Kellogg also is 

 known to have said something to Mel, who 

 was present taking expert observations and 

 standing just outside Kellogg 's bathroom 

 window. Kellogg 's very recently worn suit, 

 underclothes, stockings, etc., came out of 

 the bathroom window first, and then this: 

 ' ' Mel, you may know something about rear- 

 ing queens, but what you don 't know about 

 liandling skunks would fill the Middle 



West. ' ' 



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Plere's another use for honey — sent me 

 by Stancy Puerden. I am going to give it 

 in her exact words. It is just as plain as 



