. The American bee keeper. Bee culture; Honey. imi THE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER >11. SERIEISI Dear Brother Hill: •^ Any fool can give advice, and he is continually at it/' I'd just like to know who you had in mind when you picked that quotation for the September i^^sue. I know several of the boys to whom it might apply. Say, why did you put it right after my letter ? Er - - I want a little private conversation with vou. Well. I cannot quarrel with any one now. rve been laughing so much that I am amiable way through. The late is- sues of some of the bee papers are out- stripping Puck. Listen to t
. The American bee keeper. Bee culture; Honey. imi THE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER >11. SERIEISI Dear Brother Hill: •^ Any fool can give advice, and he is continually at it/' I'd just like to know who you had in mind when you picked that quotation for the September i^^sue. I know several of the boys to whom it might apply. Say, why did you put it right after my letter ? Er - - I want a little private conversation with vou. Well. I cannot quarrel with any one now. rve been laughing so much that I am amiable way through. The late is- sues of some of the bee papers are out- stripping Puck. Listen to this from Gleaabigs for August 15th : First the Dr. of Straws uses German authority for suggesting our sitting around, smoker in hand, watching for the opportune moment to hustle out a swarm with it. Then he proceeds to stir the editor by writing about preconstructed and post- constructed cells. Then ye editor rushes recklessly in with one of those nice little foot notes and says not one reader in ten has any knowledge of Latin and may be confused, and suggests emer- iiency cells and swarming cells, the latter embracing supersedere cells. Mind the Latin words he uses. Oh, 'tis rich ! In the same issue Rambler has broken loose again. Listen to the kind of vege- tation they have out in California: "Buck brush, artemisia, purple and white sage, cactus, live oak and aivaij beyond/' I can't find the last in my botany. Hope he will never try to "write as funny as he can.'' Yes, Bro. York is well over his " bad spell," and if he will now just study up on geography and locate his correspond- ents more definitely than by mere counties, we may be able to forgive him for setting that other fellow to Quirin our language with his "fonetik" spelling. So you are interested in the Texas oil wells. Slippery business. But you must not be too anxious to make a market for your goods or you may antagonize some of the boys. This editorial from The Bee-keeper for Septem
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