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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



June 15. 



BUSINESSg^ 



ANAGER 



We have jus-t received a fresh lot of imported 

 queens direct from Italy. They are all young, and 

 came over in unusually good order. Prices are 

 higher now than they will be next month; but first 

 come first served in the choice of the queens. 



BUSINESS AT THIS DATE. 



We are all up on orders, and are shipping most of 

 them as fast as they come in, oi' next day. Most de- 

 partments have been running 11 hours a day during 

 March, April, and May. We are now running 9 

 hours. Orders keep coming in at a lively rate, and 

 reports come from many localities of flattering 

 prospects for a honey crop, ll these prospects con- 

 tinue good, stoclis in the bands of bee-keepers 

 should be well used up Ihis season. 



CARLOAD ORDERS. 



We received order June 1st for the fourth car to 

 Jos. Nysewander, for this season. We shipped the 

 same the next day. and made most of the goods 

 shipped in the car after the order reached us. We 

 have shipped a flftli car to Barteldes & Co., Denver, 

 Col., and expect to ship a fourth this month to 

 Rocky Ford, Col.; also a fourth to Syracuse, N. Y., 

 and a fourth car to St. Paul, Minn. We have taken 

 several contracts for packing-boxes, which will 

 keep our machinery busy for the dull months 

 ahead. All together we are thankful for what the 

 season has brought us in tlie way of orders. 



I DOWN GO THE PRICES ! 



lam having such good luck in queen-rearing I 

 shall sell our fine ADELL QUEENS at the following 

 prices: 

 One queen, ifl.OO; three. $3. .50; six, $4.50, or one 

 j dozen for $8.00. Safe arrival and quality guaran- 

 teed. Catalog free. 



H. ALLEY. Wenham, Hass. 



Carniolan Queens, 



Or Dees will be sold by the under- 

 signed until first of Sep- 

 tember, when the breeding season will close. 



One untested queen, $1.00; three, *3.76: six, $5.00. 

 Tested quei ns, each, $1.50. For nuclei, or full col- 

 onies, price will be given on application. 



JOHN ANDREWS, 

 Patten's Mills, Wash. Co., N. Y. 



WARRANTED 



GOLDEN ITALIAN QUEENS^_^^.^^^ 



By Return Mail. 



Bred from a breeder, tested by Doolittle, out of 

 1000 queens for his own use, and valued at $50. 

 Queens 50c; 6 for $3 V5. oi' $5 par dozen. Leather- 

 colored queens, from Root's best imijorted stock, 

 same price. Bees from my queens are good work- 

 ers on red clover. Safe delivery guaranteed. 



N. B.— I sent more than 300 queens safely to Cal- 

 ifornia last season. 



H. Q. QUIRIN, Bellevue, Ohio. 



CREAM SECTIONS. 



We offer at special low prices, to close out, the 



following sections: 

 50,000 414x1^, No. 1 white, ex. polis'd, open 3 sides. 



10,000 4Jfxm, " 4 " 



30,000 liTxIi^i, No. 3, or cream, " " 3 " 



20,000 4 >4Xl 5^, ' " " 4 " 



15,000 4iixlS.?, ' " " 3 " 



30,000 4^x1%, " " " " " 4 " 



We offer any of the above at $3,00 per 1000; 5000 for 



$8.00; 10.000 for $15 00, Larger lots at special prices 



to those interested. If you can use any of these, 



let us lieiir from you. 



Tested Italian Queens, 75c. 



Ready to mail untested queens. Golden 

 or dark queejis reared from imported stock 

 at 60 cents each, no inferior queens sent. 

 W. A. COnPTON, Lynnville, Tenn. 



pOR SALE.— A Hammond typewriter, Hawkeye 

 ^ camera, Victor safe, 4 h, p, engine and boiler, 

 rotary pump, a lot of Dovetailed bee-hives, com- 

 plete, an 8x10 rotary printing-press and outfit of 

 typ9 and fixtures, electrotypes, etc. Write for 

 prices. Also have a surplus of transplanted stocky 

 tomato plants. Beauty. Ignotum, and Matchless at 



i $3.00 per M, Carefullv packed. 



I CHRISTIAN WECKESSER, Niagara Falls, N. Y. 



I Please mention this paper 



BEESWAX DECLINED AGAIN. 



As the season is so nearly over, and the general 

 market cijntinues weak, with declining prices, we 

 mark our quola.tions down 3c a pound. We now 

 pay, til! further notice, 3;Jc cash, 36 trade, for aver- 

 age wax delivered here. We are always ready to 

 receive wax in large or small quantities; but we do 

 wish those who ship would take a litt'e more pains 

 In marking their lot so it may be identified, and 

 write us. at the same time inclosing shipping-re- 

 ceipt, and tell us exact gross and net weights ship- 

 ped. Scarcely a day passes that we do not receive 

 from one to half a dozen shipments, and not infre- 

 quently the package is broken open, and some 

 go' e, either lost or stolen. When you give us the 

 weight you shipped, we can make claim for the 

 shortage if there is enough worth while. If you do 

 not take the precautions noted above it may result 

 in loss to you. We hnve on hand now, and general- 

 ly have, most of the time, .several lots which we can 

 not identify because shipper did not take necessary 

 precaution in shipping. 



Hard 



to 

 Beat. 



Queens reared under the favora- 

 ble conditions of a honey-flow are 

 best. I have a fine lot ready to 

 mail ; plenty coming on, at 75 cts.; 

 six for $3,75; doz. $0.75; either light 

 or 5 banded. Warranted delivered 

 safe at your P. O. 



J. B. CASE, Port Orange, Vol. Co., Fla. 



PRICES REDUCED! II, 



now an easy 

 latter to improve 

 I your stock while prices are low and the honey 

 season is on. Good queens, from the best of 

 Italian, purebred, sto<'k either Leather or Golden. 

 Your choice. My Golden Breeders show all 5-band 

 progeny. Pi ices as follows: Untested, each, 75 cts. ; 

 per doz., $7.00; Tested, $1.00; per doz,, $10.00; Breed- 

 ers, each, $3.00. Reference. Tlie A, I. Root Co. 



W. H. LAWS, Lavaca, i>eb. Co., Ark. 



ANOTHER POWDER-GUN FOR DRY PARIS GREEN. 



Hotchkiss Bros., of Wallingford, Ct.. have sent us, 

 to test, anotlter powder-gun. This one is rather 

 simpler in some respects than the Leggett, spoken 

 of in a previous issue. Instead of high gearing it 

 has spur-wheels and a chain, something like the 

 chain of a bicycle. I think it runs rather easier 

 than the other; but the arrangement of tubes for 

 putting the Paris gieen right down on the potatoes, 

 or up on the imrier side of the leaves, is not as per- 

 fect as with the Leggett gun. This, however, could 

 be easily added. The price is only $5,00, while the 

 Leggett is $7.50, The arrangement for gauging the 

 quantity of Paris green to the acre may not be as 

 complete as with the Leggett, It seems, however, so 

 far as we have tried it, to answer every purpose. 



W 



ANTED,— To exchange or sell a twenty-inch 

 pony pliiner. 



The Geo. Rall Mfg. Co., Galesville, Wis. 



pULL Colonies of Italian Bees for $4.00. 



* For particulars see larger ad. on page 



406 this paper. Tested queens after 

 June lOth. 75 cents each, 3 for $1.35. 



Address T. H. KLOER, 426 Willow St., 



Terre Haute, Ind. 



WANTED.— To exchange young Italian queens, 

 warianted purely mated, for a foundation-mill, 

 bee-books, or offers. 



W, C, Gathright, Donna Anna, New Mex. 



One dozen black and hybrid queens at 30 cents 

 each. The queens are young and strong layers. 



C. G, Marsh, Belden, Broome Co,, N. Y. 



