. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 234 AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. From— The Stinger. " Next cum along wuz little Miss Bee—um, hum! She cum roight from her hoive—bee-gum!" Sings Pat as cheerily on he goes. Till pretty Miss Bee alights on his nose. "Phat's that?" cries Pat. "Oh! Ouch! Begorry! If that's your kiss, for your feller Oime sorry!" The Chinese are said to give the bees a wide berth in California. The little insects must have said, "The Chinese must ; Mrs. Jennie At^'hley is trying hard to be the big queen-bee in the great hive of apicultur
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 234 AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. From— The Stinger. " Next cum along wuz little Miss Bee—um, hum! She cum roight from her hoive—bee-gum!" Sings Pat as cheerily on he goes. Till pretty Miss Bee alights on his nose. "Phat's that?" cries Pat. "Oh! Ouch! Begorry! If that's your kiss, for your feller Oime sorry!" The Chinese are said to give the bees a wide berth in California. The little insects must have said, "The Chinese must ; Mrs. Jennie At^'hley is trying hard to be the big queen-bee in the great hive of apicultural economists. But none of the males in the same colony want the distinction of being the biggest drone. Just see what there is in a name, some- times ! Why don't some enterprising bee- keeper of a literary turn of mind get out a little volume of all the meritorious poetry that was ever written about the honey-bee ? It seems to me that such a book should have sufficient sale to war- rant its publication. I would like to know what New York is going to do when the Fair is over with all that comb honey she has piled up in those cases in the apiarian section in the Agricultural Building? Will she send it to California, in order to show that State by the Pacific what a great honey- producing country the Empire State is ? If she does, won't it be hard on the api- arists of the Golden West who were mis- represented by their State Commission- ers ? It has long been supposed that millers ground out flour, but the Miller of Oleanings in Dee-Culture reverses the operation and grinds out straws. If the good Doctor got a little further down the straw he would have been able to use roots in his grist-mill. It is a long way, comparatively speaking, from the head of the straw to the roots, and, per- haps, the Doctor chose the medium in- stead of the extreTnes, at the same time hoping to work toward the ends. If this be so, we would like to know which he proposes to grind first, the Roots
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