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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



June 15 



Standard - Bred Quaens! 



Acme of Perfection ; Not 

 a Hybrid among Them. 



Improved Strain Golden Italians. 



World-wide reputation; 75c each; six for S-J.OO. 



Long-tongued 3'banded Italians. 



Bred from stock whose tongues measured 25- 

 hundredths inch. These are the red clover 

 hustlers of America. SI. 00 each; six for $5.00. 

 Safe arrival guaranteed. Catalog on applica- 

 tion. Headquarters for bee-keepers' supplies. 



Fred W. Muth & Co., Cincinnati, Ohio. 



South-west Corner Front and Walnut Streets. 



Dittmer's Foundation !!! 



Retail"-Wholesale— Jobbing. 



I use a Pkocess that produces every es- 

 sential necessary to make it the best 

 and MOST desirable in all respects. My 

 PROCESS and automatic machines are 

 my own inventions, which enable me to 

 SELL FOUNDATION, and WORK WAX 

 INTO FOUNDATION FOR CASH, at 

 prices that are the lowest. Catalog giving 



FULL LINE OF SUPPLIES 



with prices and samples, free on applica- 

 tion. BEESWAX WANTED. 



QUS. DITTHER, AUGUSTA, WIS. 



Get the Best Queens. 



Evansville, Ind., Sept. 27th, 1900. 

 The Jennie Atchley Co., Beeville, Bee Co., Texas: 



Dear Friends: — It gives me great plea.sure to forward 

 you this unsolicited testimonial regarding the merits 

 of Atchley queens. The three (3) dozen queens pur- 

 chased of you have made an excellent record for 

 themselves. Not an Atchley queen among the twenty 

 colonies lost during the severe drouth in July. I have 

 bought queens from many breeders; and although the 

 present crop is exceedingly short, the tiers of supers 

 show where the Atchley queens are, and speak vol- 

 umes for your method of queen-rearing. I find the 

 progeny to be very gentle, strong-winged, uniformly 

 marked, long-lived, of large size, and last, but not 

 least, the best honey-gatherers I ever had. I shall 

 want 100 more next season. 



Yours fraternally, J. C. Wallenmetkr. 



Prices for Queens. 



Tested, 81.50 each; 88.00 for 6, or $15.00 per dozen. 

 Untested, February, March, April, and May, 81.00 

 each; 85.00 per 6, or 89 00 per dozen. Fine breeders, 

 85.00 each. We have as good bees and queens as 

 money and labor produce. We breed three-band 

 Italians, Goldens, Carniolans, Cyprians, and Holr- 

 Ivands, in their purity, bred in separate yards 5 to 20 

 miles apart, If you want the best, call for Atchley's 

 improved strains. Safe arrival guaranteed. Send for 

 a sample copy of " The Southland Queen," the only 

 southern bee-paper. 81. 00 per year. To new sub- 

 scribers we offer as a premium a nice untested queen 

 in order to get out paper introduced. Catalog, giving 

 queen-rearing and management of apiaries for profit, 

 FREE. 



THE JENNIE ATCHLEY CO., 



Beeville, Bee Co., Texas. 



BINGHAM SMOKER. 



Dear Sirt— Inclosed find $1.75. Please 

 send one brass smoke-engine. I have 

 one already. It is the best smoker I 

 ever used. Trulv vours, 



Henex Schmidt, Hutto, Tex. 



MADE TO ORDER 



Bin gham Brass Smokers, 



Made of sheet brass, which does not rust or burn out ; should last 

 a lifetime. You need one, but they cost 25 cts. more than tin of the 

 ' same size. The little open cut shows our brass hinge put on the 

 ' three larger sizes. No wonder Bingham's four-inch smoke-engine 

 ' goes without puffing, and does not drop inky drops. The perforat- 

 ' ed steel fire-grate has 381 holes to air the fuel and support the fire. 



Hea\'y tin smoke-engine, 4-inch stove, per mail, 81.50 ; 3^-inch ; 

 \ 81.10 ; 3-inch, 81.00 ; 2J4-inch 90c ; 2-inch, 65c. Bingham smokers are 

 I the originals, and have all the improvements, and have been the 

 I standard of excellence for 22 years. Only three larger ones brass. 



T. F. Bingham, Farweli, Michigan. 





KRETCHMER M'F'G CO., Red Oak, Iowa. 



BEE-SUPPLIES. 



Best-equipped factory in the West; car- 

 ry a large stock and greatest variety of 

 every thing needed in the apiary, assur- 

 ing BEST goods at the LOWEST prices, 

 and prompt shipment. AVe want every 

 bee-keeper to have our FREE II.I.US- 

 TRATED CATALOG, and read descrip- 

 tion of Alternating Hives, Ferguson Su- 

 pers, etc. H^ite at once for a catalog. 



AGENCIES : 



Trester Supply Co., 103 So. 11th St., Lin- 

 coln, Nebraska ; C. C. Richards, 

 1223 17th St., Denver, Col. 



