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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



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I Q"««"« Bees by the Pound Q''*«°' | 



i Throe-banded and Golden Italians. The best of either. They are hustlers — gentle to handle, § 



H cap their honey white, are very resistent to European foul brood. We have added B. M. Car- ^ 



s away's queen-rearing outfit to ours; also have with us one of his assistants, so we hope to fill s 



^ all orders promptly. We had tine success last season shipping bees by the pound in our newly = 



1 devised sliipping-caee, a number of shipments going as far as Idaho and Wyoming. Mi'. R. B. 1 



j Millis. Corinth, X. Y., wrote, "Bees arrived in fine shape; not 50 dead bees to the cage." 2-lb. i 



1 size. Sali.'ifaction and safe arrival guaranteed. Reference: The Guaranty State Bank, Robs- i 



1 town, Te.'<as. or The City Nat. Bank, Corpus Christi, Texas. = 



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i Untested Queens $1.15 $6.35 $11.50 $43.70 $85.00 i 



1 Select Tested 2.50 11.50 20.70 74.75 138.00 f 



i Bees, 1-lb. package 1.75 9.80 18.40 74.75 138.00 i 



I Bees, 2-lb. package 2.90 17.25 33.95 132.25 240.00 | 



1 'WTicn ordering pound packages add price of queen wanted. = 



= Get our prices on empty bee-cagos. Circular Fret § 



I NUECES VALLEY APIARIES, Calallen, Texas, hereafter will be known as 1 



I Nueces County Apiaries, Calallen, Texas | 



1 E. B. AULT, Proprietor | 



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Eastern Beekeepers. 



You will need supplies for the coining 

 season and you had better prepare early 

 Freight is very slow and at the high price 

 of honey you must surely be prepared. Send 

 us a list of what you want in the bee line. 

 Catalog free. 



I. J. Stringham, 105 Park PL, N. Y. 



Apiaries: Glen Cove, L. I. 



Order Your Bee Supplies Early 



We want you to have our 

 catalog. . . Send for one. 



August Lotz Company, Boyd, Wis 



Inventions Wanted! 



Manufacturers constantly writing us 

 for patents. List of inventions actually 

 requested and book "How to Obtain a Pat- 

 ent" Bent fsee. Send rough sketch for free 

 report regarding patentability. Special assist- 

 ance given our clients in selling patents. 

 Write for details of interest to every inventor. 



Chandlee & Chandlee, Patent Attomeyt 

 Est. 21 Years 427 7tliSt.,Wa»hington,D.C. , 



fBbkrKANTKLOG SPRAYER-i 



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9 sizes of sprays from one nozzle. Starta 

 or stops instantly"— saves solution and 

 work. Send for catalog. Agents wanted. 



Rochester Spray Pump Co. 

 207 Broatlway Roch ester, N. Y. 



AGE^S 



Up 'HANOY 

 b TUBES 



A HOUSEHOLD NECESSITY 



Around the Office - Continued 



even if her wings weren 't clipped, he would. 

 She'd got to be outgeneraled and, as I say, 

 Mel wasn 't for pickin ' her up odorless. He 

 figured he and his reputation as a odorless 

 operator weren 't bein ' seen. There 's a lot 

 of us do things different, back of the straw 

 stack back of the old barn from what we do 

 'em on the rostrum of the farmers' institoot 

 or before a beekeepers' convention. So, 

 Mel, right then and there got up the worn- 

 out dishpan method of catchin ' loose skunks 

 in the day time. Praps he wouldn 't have 

 been able to get it up so quick if a old, worn 

 out, rusty dish pan hadn 't been layin ' right 

 out there by the straw stack. Mel knew, 

 too, that action was what was needed afore 

 his wanderin ' skunk could sasshay off under 

 the barn. Bonyparte saved a whole battle 

 oncet by just crackin' the ice in a river 

 with cannon balls. Just so Mel grabbed up 

 that old dishpan quick, and, as Mother 

 Skunk went agoin ' around the straw stack 

 in one direction, he ambushed hisself on the 

 other side, the dishpan raised high up and 

 ready to clap down on her. In the course of 

 time she came along to where Mel was 

 camooflashed (I like big words when I can 

 get holt of 'era new) — camooflashed, I re- 

 peat, under more or less loose straw. Down 

 came the old dishpan over her kerflop, and, 

 to make sure it staid down, Mel came down 

 on it strong with both hands. He also 

 simultaneously kept on coming down thru 

 the top of it, that is, both his hands did 

 and the front forepart of his countenance. 

 Thoroly rusted tin ain 't for pouncin ' on 

 if you want to stay up on top. This would- 

 n 't have been so bad, tho, if the proceedin 's 

 in general hadn 't seemed to annoy the old 

 mother skunk considerable, and if Mel had- 

 n 't got his hands, the skunk and the rusted 

 tin so mixed together they wouldn 't come 

 apart no way. She began resentin ' it her 



