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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTUKE. 



Apr. 



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Should Read Our 



Apiarian Catalogue for 1880! 



It will PAY you to do so. Write your name, and 

 those of your friends who keep bees, on a postal 

 card, at once, and direct it to 



Ha Ai 



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3-5d 



SOUTH HAVEN, MICH. 



CLEAR AHEAD! 



WE LEAD IN SMOKERS. 



Our new invention of a 



DOTJBIjEI ZBULi-A-iST 



Smoker is pronounced the finest improvement ever 

 made on smokers. No more sparks or ashes in the 

 hive. Doolittle says: "The arrangement to change 

 the draft so as to make it a cold blast after the tire 

 is kindled places it ahead of any smoker in the mar- 

 ket by a long- way." So say all who see and test it. 

 Don't fail to see an illustration and description of it. 

 Prices, large 2M> inch tube, $150; medium, 2 inch 

 tube, $1.25; small. 1% inch tube, without double 

 blast attachment, 75 cents. Dust box and extra noz- 

 zle with large size, 25 cents extra. By mail 25 cents 

 extra each. 



QUINSY'S NEW EEB-KEEPIKG, 



BY L. C. ROOT. 

 This is the most practical work published. It con- 

 tains 100 illustrations including an excellent por- 

 trait of M. Quinby. Price, by mail, $1.50. 



We sell everything used by practical bee-keepers. 

 Send for illustrated circular. 



L. C. ROOT & BRO., 

 4d Mohawk, Herk. Co., N. Y. 



FOR SALE CHEAP. 



200 COLONIES ITALIAN BEES. 



Having over 450 colonies of Italian Bees, I will sell 

 200 in lots of 25, 50, 100, or 200, at $5. delivered on 

 board of any Mississippi River steamboat. All the 

 queens are daughters of Imported mothers from 

 two districts of Italy. All in newly painted movable 

 frame hives. PAUL L. VIALLON, 



3tfd Bayou Goula, La. 



1530 Queens ! Queens!^ 



Pure tested Italian queens, from choice imported 

 mothers, April and May, $2.50; afterwards, $2.00. 

 Untested queens. $1.00. Safe arrival guaranteed by 

 mail. Send in your orders early, as I live 10 or 

 12 miles from the railroad The mail comes twice a 

 week to my apiary. HALL & CHENY, 



3-5d Fern Cliif, Jackson Co., Ala. 



Bingham & 



HETHERINaTOH. 



You can lean on a Binghim 

 Smoker in the hour of trial. 

 One match per day, and wood 

 of any kind, is all that's need- 

 ed. It needs no fussing or 

 cleaning or dampers, as it 

 works just as well pointing- 

 down as up, and never goes 

 out. Previous to my inven- 

 tion and patent, the draft to 

 all bellows smokers was throu' 

 the bellows; now, all bellows 

 smokers use an open draft. 

 The largest and most scientific bee-keepers 

 [use Bingham Smokers, some using as many 

 as fifteen in their various apiaries. 



No Bingham Smoker has ever been re- 

 turned. No letter has ever been received 

 complaining that our Smokers did not give 

 satisfaction; but we have received hund- 

 reds of letters expressing the most un- 

 bounded satisfaction and appreciation of 

 our invention. Hundreds of them have 

 been in constant use three seasons, and are 

 now as good as new. One dollar and a half is not 

 much for the use of such an instrument three sea- 

 sons, is it? Patented January 9, 1878; le-issued 

 July 9, 1878. 



The extra larg-e Smoker and the Extra Standard 

 for 1880 will have our new extra-wide shields, which 

 entirely protect the hands and bellows from heat, 

 and remove the danger of burning the fingers. 

 Practical bee-keepers will find these wide shields an 

 important improvement. 



The Bingham & Hetherington Patent Uncapping- 

 Knife is a large, strong-, durable knife, polished and 

 tempered like a razor, and so formed and sharpened 

 as to cut both ways, over hills and through hollows 

 all the same, without dropping a cap on the honey. 

 The most world-renowned, practical, and scientific 

 bee-keepers in Europe and America pronounce it 

 "the best honey-knife ever made." 



Extra Large Smokers Zy» inch, $1.50 



Extra Standard " 2 " 1.2> 



Plain " " ....2 " 1.00 



LittleWonder " 1J£ " .75 



Per'idoz 3.00 



Bingham & Hetherington Knife 1.00 



" Knife and Cap-Catcher.. 1.25 



If to be sent by mail, or singly by express, add 25 



cents each, to prepay postage or express charges. 



Send for circular. If to sell again, apply for dozen 



or half-dnzen rates. Address T. F. Bingham or 



BINGHAM & HETHERINGTOJIT, 

 4d OTSEGO, MICH. 



PRIZE BRED ESSEX PIGS. 



Essex are the best farmers' pig; have been known 

 to dress 90 per cent of live weight; are small bone 

 and light offal; quick to mature. Jos. Harris, au- 

 thor of "Harris on tbe Pig," etc., says of my boar 

 "Porter," that he is the "finest Essex pig he ever 

 saw." A few Pedigree Pigs for disposal, (farrowed 

 Feb. 23. and March 1, 1880) at moderate prices, suita- 

 ble for breeding or exhibition. Personal inspection 

 of my stock is solicited. All correspondence will 

 have cheerful and prompt attention. 

 4-6d C. W. CANFIELD, Athens, Pa. 



N. B.—A limited number of eggs for hatching 

 from my prize winning Brown Leghorns, and Black 

 Red Bantams, at $2.00 per 13, warranted to hatch. 



HEADQUARTERS for the Best Queens and Colo- 

 nies in the U. S. As 1 make Queen renring a 

 specialty, 1 guarantee to those ordering from me, 

 evactly what tbev bargain for. Circulars free. 

 3-5d D. A. PIKE, Smiihsburg, W«i-h. Co., Md. 



300 COLONIES BEES FOB SALE ! 



Come to Council Bend, Ark., on the Miss. River, 

 and buy S00 Colonies of Bees. lam determined to 

 sell. 2-4 GEO. B. PETERS. 



