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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTUEE. 



Apr. 



Wants or Exchange Department. 



Notices will be inserted under this head at one-half our 

 usual rates. All ad's intended tor this department must not 

 excoed 5 lines, and you must say you want your ad. in this de- 

 pa-tment, or we will not be responsible for any error. You 

 can have the notice as many lines as you please; but all over 

 Ave lines will cost you according to our regular rates. Of 

 course, this department is intended only for bona-flde ex- 

 changes. 



WANTED. — To . exchange for good horses 

 and mules, 300 colonies of bees in Simplicity 

 frames; also 40 acres of land adjoining- the city. 

 SOtfdb Anthony Opp, Helena, Phillips Co., Ark. 



WANTED.— To exchange eggs from four yards, 

 pure-bred prize-winning Plymouth Rocks, for 

 alsike clover seed. Eggs. «2.00 for 13, or $3.00 

 for 30. B. D. SiDWELL, 



3-8db Flushing, Belmont Co., Ohio. 



EGGS for hatching.— Wyandottes, Polands, Ham- 

 burgs, and Leghorns,' iu exchange for section 

 boxes, or foundation Circulars free. 

 4tfdb. A. H. DubF, Crcighton, Ohio. 



WANTED.— To exchange nursery stock of all kinds 

 for bees in spring. Terms on application, stat- 

 ing what you want. D. G. Edmiston, 

 4tfdb. Adrian, Mich. 



WANTED.— To exchange 40 acres of good land, 

 % improved, frame house and barn, good 

 spring, ^i mile from a thriving temperance town; 

 good schools, church, etc., and situated on the 

 great basswood belt of Wisconsin, for property in 

 Arkansas, small or large. Apiary if desired. Cor- 

 respondence solicited. M. A. Gill,, 

 .5tfdb Star, Vernon Co.. Wis. 



WANTED.— To exchange, any amount of Wyan- 

 dotte and Brown Leghorn eggs for grapevines, 

 fdn., plum-trees, or any thing useful. 

 6-7d Benj. Zukches, Apple Creek, Wayne Co., O. 



WANTED.— To exchange for sewing - machine, 

 Brown Leghorn pullets, 750; cockerels, $1.00; 

 eggs, 75c per 13; 36, $1.00. Warranted pure. 6-7d 

 Mks. Alice Bright, Mazeppa, Minn. 



WANTED.— To exchange eggs from pure - bred 

 Langshan fowls, for beeswax, tested Italian 

 queens, good revolver, or any thing useful, 

 fid E. P. Aldredge, Franklin Square, Col. Co., O. 



WANTED.— To exchange a new Hitchcock's Bible, 

 cost $9.75; Sharpless, Crescent, Monarch, and 

 Wilson Strawberry-plants, for pure Italian queens, 

 also pair of Plymouth Rocks. S. J. Adams, 

 6d Cub Creek, Charlotte Co., Va. 



WANTED.— To exchange forty thousand extra- line 

 Cuthbert, Gregg, and 13 other new varieties 

 red and black raspberry plants, for comb or ex- 

 tracted honey. The honey is to be delivered next 

 fall. Write for terms of exchange to 

 6-7-8d E. T. Flanagan, box 995, 



Belleville, St. Clair Co., IIL 



WANTED.— To exchange for extracted white clo- 

 ver or basswood honey, or bees, a new footr 

 power saw. Write for particulars. 

 7tfdb W. S. Wright, Battle Creek, Mich. 



WHAT am I offered in exchange for a high-scor- 

 ing Wyandotte cockerel, of the "Poquanock" 

 strain? W. H. Osborne, Chardon, Ohio. 



WANTED.— To exchange Italian bees or bronze 

 turkey-eggs for a Canary bird singer and cage. 

 7d Geo. W. Baker, Milton, Wayne Co., Ind. 



WANTED —To exchange bees by the pound orfull 

 colonies, queens, comb fdn., eggs for hatching 

 from L. Brahmas and S. S. Hamburgs, for sections, 

 Jersey cow, American Merino sheep, or offers. 

 6-7-8-9"d J. P. Sterritt, Sheakley ville, 



Mercer, Co., Pa. 



WANTED.— To exchange for beeswax, one foot- 

 power saw. Also wanted, a good Mexican sad- 

 dle and bridle, for sections or other supplies. 

 6-7d C. A. Graves, Birmingham, Ohio. 



WANTED.— To exchange a Wilson's bone-mill, 

 new, O. K., for 4 Italian dollar queens in July. 

 7d A. Mottaz, Ottawa, III. 



WANTED.— To exchange 80 colonies of bees in 

 chaff and Simp, hives, of 10 wired fdn. frames 

 each, for some good land near by. Apply at once. 

 78d Jas. H. Andrus, Almont, Mich. 



WANTED.— To exchange Wyandotte eggs, pure 

 ground bones and .■shells, and Gregg raspberry- 

 plants, for comb foundation. 

 7-8-9d A. A. Fradenburg, Port Washington, O. 



WANTED. — To exchange section boxes, 4 piece 

 dovetailed, 4i4,x4i4xl'8, price $4.00 per 1000, for 

 a Planet Jr. seed-drill and cultivator, or a comb 

 fdn. mill (a 10-ineh mill preferred). 

 7d F. T. Hall, Loehiel, Dunn Co., Wis. 



WANTED. — To exchange metal cornered, wired 

 frames (Simp.), ready to hang in the hive, filled 

 with foundation, for Italian bees and queens. 

 7-8d R. B. BONEAR, Cherry Ridge, Pa. 



WANTED. — To exchange Barnes foot-power saws 

 and bees, for steam-engine, honey, or beeswax. 

 7-I3db C. W. & A. H. K. Blood, So. Quincy, Mass. 



WANTED. —To exchange Cuthbert raspberry 

 roots for a double- barrel 12-gauge breech-load- 

 ing shot-gun, or a female ferret, or beeswax. 



M. ISBELL, Norwich, N. Y 



WANTED.— A young man of some experience, to 

 take charge of an apiary of sixty colouies of 

 bees, either on shares or for wages. Address 

 7d J. P. CONNELL, Box 132, Hillsboro. Texas 



WfintPli ^^ Kood bee-keeper to take charge o 

 fiaillUUi Qiy apiary of 12J colonies, on shai'cs 

 Robert Blacklock, Killgore, Carter Co., K.\ . 



WANTED.— Competent assistant in apiary for 

 summer. DR. THOM, Streetsville, Can. 6-7d 



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ANTED.— A steady man to work small apiary and 

 garden. Correspond with J. T. DUEWAltD, Seneca, Wis. 



Black and Hybrid Queens For Sale. 



For the benefit of friends who have black or hybrid queeni- 

 which they want to dispose of, we will insert notices free of 

 charge, as below. We do this bec'use there is ha'-dly value 

 enough to these queens to pay f"r bujing them up and keep- 

 ing them in stock; and yet If is often' inies quite an accommo- 

 dation to those who can not afford higher-priced ones. 



I have about 30 hybrid queens, reared mostly 

 from imported queens, but have proven hybrids. 

 These I will sell, during April, at .50 cts. each; May, 

 37'/^ cts. each. June and after. 35 cts. each. June 

 and after, per half-dozen, *1.35. Per dozen, $2.35; 

 per two dozen, $4.00. 



Geo. W. Baker, Milton, Wayne Co., Ind. 



I shall remove 6 young mismated Italian queens, 

 about the last of April. Who wants them at 50 cts. 

 each? Miss A. M. Taylor, 



Box 77. Mulberry Grove, Bond Co., III. 



Twenty-five pure Italian queens, mated with 

 black drones, at 50 cts. apiece, now. Safe arrival 

 guaranteed. Three black queens at 35 cts. apiece. 

 S. H. CoLWiCK, Norse, Bosque Co., Texas. 



A few good hybrid queens, in April and May, sit 

 50c each. Pelham & Williams. Maysville, Ky. 



GIVEN AWAY. 



We will send free by mail one of our latest im- 

 proved drone and queen traps to each yearly sub- 

 scriber for the AMERICAN APIC17LTUR[!^T. 

 Price $1.00 per annum. Sample copies free. Send 

 the $1.00 in common letter at our risk. 



Address AMERICAN APICULTURIST, 



7tfd Wenham. Mass. 



TESTED QUEENS, in April and May. at $3.50 each. 

 Pelham & Williams, Maysville, Ky. 



