Try William Safire at The New York Times.
Jim Shaver
 
On Wed, 2 Jul 1997 19:02:06 +0000 "Malcolm Tom Sanford, Extension
Apiculturist"              <[log in to unmask]> writes:
>Sorry, I can't help you on this.  Am sending it out to another
>list on bees to see if there is any help there.
>
>Tom Sanford
>
>At 04:28 PM 7/1/97 -0700, you wrote:
>>Hello!
>>
>>I'm a reference librarian at a university in Texas.  I have had a
>>question from a patron, couldn't answer with standard ref. sources,
>>threw it out to the incredible WWW listserv "Stumpers" which is a
>>collaboration of librarians across the world and they have suggested
>>that this mysterious word is bee-related.
>>
>>I am trying to find the meaning of the word:
>>
>>apisling
>>
>>A patron's family is described in a 1870 Georgia (USA) census as
>>'apislings on a farm'.
>>
>>I've used the Oxford English Dictionary plus several other general
>>English language dictionaries with no luck.  Is this word in fact
>>in the vocabulary of beekeepers?
>>
>>thanks so much for any hints!
>>
>>Pam Spooner (whose flower garden is nicely full of bees!)
>>Wildenthal Memorial Library
>>Sul Ross State University, Alpine
>>
>