March, 1920 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



He's Not — Around the Office 



M.-A.-O. 's litter and defunck effects at the 

 offic the other day I found the follerin, writ- 

 ten a year ago or more in which he says: 



E. E. Koot, editor-in-chief, is sometimes a 

 mighty promptitudinous sort. For example, 

 he started on Jan. 20 to meet a lecture ap- 

 pointment on beekeepin at the N. Y. State 

 School of Agriculture at Alfred, N. Y. He 

 laid out in the frost and zero weather inside 

 an Erie railroad passenger station almost all 

 one night for a train that was to take him 

 there, but which was four hours late and then 

 didn 't stop at the station where he was 

 steadily freezin. He saw it go by a-sailin 

 at 3 a. m., and was madder 'n Balaam ever 

 was at his faithful old mule — only he covild- 

 n "t get at his means of transportation witli 

 a shillalah the way old Balaam could and 

 did. But he had it on Balaam in gettin word 

 home for help, for he routed out the local 

 telephone man and telephoned to Medina, 15 

 miles away, to get a relief expedition to him 



(Coiitiniiid on page 187.) 

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 my old-time beekeeping friends heard 

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 Texas they called me a fool; but now 

 I have more bees and more honey than 

 any man in Green county. It is the 

 talk of this part of the woods." 

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 spring shipping.) 



From West Virginia: "The State 

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 the finest queens he ever saw. To say 

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mildlj'. Will want more bees and 

 queens in the spring. ' ' 



Guarantee shipment to be made on 

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2.16 

 3.83 

 5.62 



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