IMarch, 1910. 



American "Bee Joarnal 



Tennessee-Bred Queens ! 



All from Extra-Select Mothers, 

 Davis' Best, and the 

 Best Queens Money Can Buy 



38 Years' Experience in Queen-Rearing. 



Breed Three- Band Italian Queens Only. 



November ist to July ist 



I 6 12 



Untested $100 $5.00 $ 0.00 



Select Untested.. 1.25 6.50 12.00 



Tested i.75 0.00 1700 



Select Tested.... 2.50 n.50 25.00 



Select Breeder 

 Nuclei; no queen i fr 



Colony. 



$4. 00 

 2.00 

 3.00 

 4.00 

 800 



Select queen wanted and add price to price of nucleus or full colony. 



For queens to be exported, add 20 percent to these prices, except to Canada. Cuba or 



Mexico. 



JOHN M. DAVIS, 



Dealer in, Importer and Breeder of 

 ITALIAN QUEEN-BEES 



Depot. Telegraph and Express Offices. 

 Ewell Station on L. i^ N. R. R. 



SPRING HILL, TENN. 



i^i^» m m m 



Grow Strawberry Plants 



With as Great Care 



Us Kou Buy Them 



If yon buy my plaTts 

 you get good, strong, 

 Iicaltliy ones that are 

 grown in a natural 

 strawberry country 

 wliere soil, climate and 

 season each help to 

 make hardy and pro- 

 ductive plants. Vou 

 get plants true to name. 

 Wliethcr you plant a 

 doxeu or 100,000 your 

 order can be filled 

 promptly from the 

 stock of iQio plant-; — 

 I never grew a finer 

 2t»-acre lot of theui. Send for 1910 

 3-color catalog. It is tree, and I 

 %vant you to tiave a copy of 11. 



W. W. THOMAS 



Tho Strawberry Plant Man 

 I 52 Main Streot, Anna, III. 



EXTRACTING MADE EASY 



by using 



MILLER AUTOMATIC DECAPPERS 



$5 to $35. Catalog Free. 



APrCULTURAL MANUFACTURING CO., 

 Providence, R. I. 7Atf 



A Bargain in 



Poultry Supplies 



Cornell Incubators and Mann Bone Cutter 

 for sale at about half price. 



232-Egg capacity Incubator, only $15.00 

 364- " " " " 18.00 



Mann Xo. 11 Power or Hand Bone 



Cutter, for only 18.00 



Mann Clover Cutter, iron stand. 6.00 



Leg Bands. Poultry Markers, and Egg-Tes- 

 ters, at half price. 



The above machines are slightly damaged, 

 but about as good as new. Never used, but 

 tested and guaranteed. Address, 



Arnd Honey and Bee-Supply Co., 



148 West Superior St.. - CHICAGO. ILL. 



DOUBLE ACTION HARROW & CULTIVATOR 

 FOR 100% CROPS 



With this ton] m 

 of vvoric can be unne, 

 Willi less effort, luau 

 with any nth^r. CLARK'S is tue ouly Disk Culii- 

 T.itor iliat conipletety einUodieS the double at-Uun 

 principle. It will do the work of several disk nia- 

 cliiue« that would cost you several times as nui'-h, 

 and do it more thoroughly, because it has 4 eaiitrs 

 instead of only 2. The draft is always from centre^ 

 suitable fur 2 litjht horses. Equipped wiih Extension 

 Head ami Jointed Pole, and wltfu so ordeied two 

 laijje disl^s for Lifting are supplied. 

 Send t'ulay for our free liook, "Lar£:o Hay Crops." 



CUTAWAY HARROW COMPANY, 

 Main St., HIGGANUM, CONN, 



different 



Please mention Am. Bee Journal when writing. 



ROOT'S GOODS 



f<ir rjio are better than ever. \Vu carry full 

 line of them. 



MR. BEEMAM. take notice! For low 

 freight and (luick service our location can- 

 not be excelled in the State. Don't delay. 

 Order now. You can be saving your honey 

 crop while the tardy fellow is waiting for his 

 g(>o{|s to arrive. 



Our 1910 Bee-Line 



is of llie best. We are making: a specialty of 

 hiirli-Krade untestt-d queens from a famous 

 strain of honey-gatherers, at Ji.oo each. Or- 

 der now. and be sure to get one for our de- 

 livery after May i;, igio. Remember that 

 rli' 11^ .]urcns and poor blood do not pay. 



Rea Bee & Honey Co.^ 

 Reynoldsville. Pa. 



Please mention Am. Bee Journal when writing. 



Standard -Bred Queens! 



Reared from our .Superior (iolden and 3- 

 banded Italian stock. The cells are all built 

 in very strong colonies. Our Queens pro- 

 duce bees that store from it^o pounds In Col- 

 orado to 256 pounds in N. Y. State, with but 

 little swarming-. Queens ready April ist: 

 Untested, $1.25 each: 6 for S6.00; 12 for $10. 

 Tested. Si-5o each; Select Tested. $2.50: 

 Breeders, Ssoo. 



Full colonies and Nuclei for sale. 



Mr. K. M. Tones, of Lockport. N. Y.. writes 

 as follows about our Queens and Bees: 



LocKPOHT, N. Y.. Sept. 9. 1908. 

 Mr. T. S. Hall. Jasper. Ga. 



Dear Sir:— Your letter of the 2d received. I 

 have taken only a part of the honey. The bees 

 are gathering: honey very fast. The most of 

 the colonies are yellow as g^old and very gentle. 

 I think your Italians are very grentle. I bougrht 

 'J dozen from another breeder 1st of July. They 

 are not as grentle as yours. You must remem- 

 ber. I had only 45 colonies of bees last spring:— 

 7 strong ones and 38 very weak ones that I 

 would have lost If the cold weather had lasted 

 two weeks long-er. Some of them did not have 

 bees enough to cover one frame, and yet their 

 crop will be about A tons of white honey. I 

 know you would like to know how I Increased 

 to 134 colonies. I had 2 of them swarm out. and 

 I made 14 nuclei from them, and put your young 

 Queens with them. I had 5 swarms of black 

 bees come to me and go In the empty hives 

 about the Isl of June. After they had been in 

 the hives 3 weeks I divided them into 20 nuclei 

 and killed the black Queens and put in 20 of 

 your nice young Italian queens with them. The 

 rest of the colonies I made bj' taking frames of 

 hatching brood from the old colonies and put- 

 ting them in empty hives. I could not have 

 made that Increase without the aid of all drawn- 

 out combs ready for the bees. The strongest 

 colonies had 5 stories to the hive, 8 frames each 

 —40 frames all together: 8 frames of brood. 32 

 frames of honey, 8 lbs. of honey to the frame, 

 256 lbs. of white honey from the strongest colo- 

 nies. They have 2,500 pounds of honey on their 

 hives now, Sept. yth. Our Fair was last week. 

 I got I3S.50 in premiums on bees and honey: $5 

 for the best Italian queen. 



Yours truly, F. M. Joxks. 



Discount ffiven on large orders. Price-list 

 ready soon. 



T. S. Hall, Jasper, Pickens Co. Ga. 



Please mention Am. Bee Journal when writing. 



M. H. HUNT & SON 



The best time to buy your goods is during 

 the fall and winter months. We are mak- 

 ing Liberal Discounts for Early /Orders, 

 and would like to Quote you net prices on 

 your needs for next season. 



-BEESWAX WANTED- 



LANSING, - MICHIGAN. 



Bee-Supplies 



Lewis Goods in Iowa 



at Factory Prices 



Write me for prices on Goods you need for 

 IQIO. Discount for Early Orders. Send, for 

 Catalog. It will be ready about January 1st. 



—Beeswax Wanted— 

 W. J. McCARTY. Emmettsbur^. Iowa 



