Bees and Queens 



IN CONNECTION with and directly adjoining Select Tested Queens. 

 our large inaniifactnring plant, we have a 



large apiarv, and this is further supplement l,ike the tested, their progeny is pure: but the 



ed by a yard in the West Indies, and several queens themselves are large and yellow, young 



out-vards near Medina. Nearly all of these and piolific. Their bees are gentle and finely 



are devoted to the rearing of high-class hon- marked. The progeny of these queens for real 



ey queens or queens for bu.sine.ss. In charge of business will probably be no better than tho.se 



this department we have a queen-breeder of from the ordinery tested. But Ihere are those 



.some 15 years' experience, careful and compe- who wish beauty and utility combined, and so 



lent, and one who uses the latest and best meth- tar as possible, we intend to fill their want. 

 ods for producing vigorous and healthy stock. 



None but honey queens are used fur breeders Imported Italian Queens. 

 (usually imported — queens whose progeny have 



excelled every thing else in the yard). Some of Imported queens, as Ihe name indicates, are 

 them are from our celebrated imported red-clov- queens direct from Italy While the queens 

 er mother, the bees of which will excel any themselves are a little darker than the home- 

 thing else in the yard during the time that red- bred queens.thev are prolific, and the bees are 

 clover is in bloom. Then we have a breeder remarkable for' gentleness. We charge more 

 whose bees stored 160 lbs. of surplus from clover for the imported queens, first, because they cost 

 and basswood, in a yard where there are already more; and, second, because they are worth more. 

 650 colonies. While some of them are no better than our home 

 On occount of the intrinsic merit of breeding bred queens, the average run of them are super- 

 stock and the pains we take in rearing our ior. Now, if you want a yellow queen, don't or- 

 queens, we are compelled to charge a slight ad- der one of these. The queens, as well as the 

 vance over ruling prices. bees, are leather-colored. Sometimes their bees, 



while pure, show only two bands distinctlv. The 



PRICES OF QUEENS REARED IN THE third, while present, does not appear until the 



A I. ROOT COMPANY'S APIARIES. bees are filled with honey. 



Untested queen $ i.oa - ^ j j 



.Select untested queen 1.25 pive-banded Stoek. 



Tested queen 2.00 



Select tested queen 3.00 This is simply a fancy stock of Italian bees 



Breeding queen 5.00 showing anywhere from three to five bands. 



Select breeding queens 8.00 from the same queen. They are not necessarily 



Extra select breeding queens one year old 1000 better workers, neither are they more hardy or 



gentle. Indeed, the reverse has often been true 



Imported Italian Queens. because in manny cases th breeder in running 



for color seems to loose sight of the business 



We are prepared to furnish from the best breerl- qualities. But some of this yellow stock has 



ers in Italy, imported Italian queens. They are shown all the the desirable points. In offering 



put into our own yards and tested before send- these queens we do not guarantee that they shall 



iiig out. We have only two grades — best and fair show in the majority of their bees, five of even 



imported, and prices are given in the table below. fouryellow bands. We shall, however, endeavor 



Best imixjited queens I 5.00 to secure the best stock from the best and most 



Fairimported queens 3.< o conscientious breeders. But if von want bees 



for business we advise you to get the typical three- 



Untested Queens. banded stock. 



Price of the five-banded queens same as three- 



An untested queen is one raised from an im- banded in the table for the grade and time of 



ported mother, or a breeding-queen whose bees year. 



are extra honev gatherers. She is untested be- < • j sen 

 cause she has laid only a frame or two of eg^s; fiuelei and Colonies of Bees. 

 and as these eggs or brood have not hatched in- 

 to young bees we do not know yet whether she We are prepared to furnish one, two, and three 

 will be a tested Italian or a hybrid. All we guar- frame nuclei and full colonies of bees in eighl- 

 antee in an untested queen is, that she was rais- frame Dovetailed hives or Danzenbaker hives, 

 from a pure mother and fertilized in an apiary The nuclei are put up in light shipping- boxes 

 where Italian drones largely predominate. made of basswood, the s des of which are only 



3-16 inch thick, and the ends V^ inch. The top 



Select Untested Queens. and bottom are covered with wire cloth. This 



makes a very light package, affords plenty of 

 We have calls for yellow untested queens. ventilation, and is strong enough 10 stand ship- 

 While we do not regard them any better for real pi.ng from 500 to 1000 miles. The bees .so put up 

 business there are .some who go in for beauty. almost invariably go through in good order with 

 Their bees (for wedont know what they are yet) little or no loss. 

 may not be any yellower then those from our 

 ordin^iry untested, and may prove to be hybrids. prices of' nuclei. 



Tested Queens. i-frame nucleus, noqueen, ship, weight 7lbsf2.rio 



2-frame " " " 10 " 3.00 



These are queens that have been having for a 3-trame " . '' , ,. ' '■'^ ^-^^ 



month or .so, and their young bees have al, eady One colony of bees in S-frame hive, noqueen, 



emerged from their cells. They have been in shipping weight 40 lbs 7 =.0 



the cell long enough .so that we know their prog- We can supply with the nuclei any of the 



eny are pure Italians — that is, bees having three queens nienlioned in the table of prices of queens, 



vellow bands, and, as a natural con.secjuence, are When one buys an extra select (jueen or any 



gentle. The queens are not bright yellow, but high-priced queen he would do well to have her 



are usually striped with yellow and black. For come in a nucleus This will insure safe arrival, 



real bu.siness they're just as good as and do away with the hazard of introducing. 



The A. I. Root Co., Hedina, Ohio. 



