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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



Jan. 15 



Sa-bisfiocl Ous-torric 



and their numerous expressions of the superiority of my queens war- 

 rant me in continuing the arrangement of my queen apiaries in 1902 

 as in 1 90 1. I have watched carefully, and have selected the queens 

 whose colonies gave me the best results in HONEY, for my queen 

 and drone mothers. 



Yard No. 1 consists of a combination of the Root Lonti-Tonqued Clover Stock, the Supe- 

 rior Stock so much Advertised by Hutchinson, and a Selection of My Own Stock that I have been Breed- 

 ing for years, in reg-ard to which I have the foHowing:: 



Buffalo, N. Y., Auff. 31, 1901. 

 Mv Dear Victor: — Queen and nucleus arrived safely yesterdaj-; made 

 entrance to nucleus and allowed them to fly yesterday. Transferred them to 

 a Dovetailed hive this morning", ivitlwiit smoke, and handled them, patting 

 them on the bade, and I never saw such quiet and docile bees. If their work- 

 ing- qualities are as superior as their handling, I am prepared to say you 

 have the best bees I have ever met with, which would include some 25 or 30 

 different breeders, and all the well-known races. 



Yours very truly, Okkl L. Hkrshiser. 



The colony of one of the queens I have selected for a breeder in this yard gathered 

 right about 400 pounds of honey last season. I have not measured her bees' tongues, but they 

 are ALL RIGHT, LONG OR SHORT. 



Yard No. 2 consists of imported Italians, daughters and granddaug-hters. For 

 further description see ad. later. Testimonials on application. 



Yard No. 3— GOLDEN BEAUTIES or 5-banded Italians. 



I am now booking orders for spring deliver}' ; first come first served. 



Untested queens: 1, f l.O:); (i, to.OO. Select untested queens: 1. »! 25 ; H, ffi.OO. Tested queens: 1, |1.50; 

 6. SS.OO Select tested queens: 1, $2.00; 0, $11.00. Breeders, $5 00 to 97.00. See circular for specifications. 



ROOT'S GOODS AT ROOT'S PRICES, plus carload rate freight. 



W. 0. VICTOR, Queen Specialisl. Wharton. Wharton Co., Texas. 



California. 



The State that produces car- 

 loads of honey ; the largest aver- 

 ages of any State in the Union; 

 a mammoth honey association to 

 market the crop; the value of dif- 

 ferent fields, is told in the 



Pacific Bee Jcurnal, 



Los Angeles, Calif., 



whose correspondents are success- 

 ful producers of tons and tons — 

 20 to So tons each. 



California as a Honey State, by A. J. 

 Cook. Gallup's Bee-keeping Experiences. 

 Nevada Forging Ahead. Utah Bee-keep- 

 ing. Washington, Oregon, Idaho, and 

 Arizona News. Bee-keepers say the Pacific 

 is one of the best $1.00 bee-papers, prettily 

 g-otten up and illustrated; most appropriate 

 cover design. 



Clubbed with Gleanings, new or renewal. $1.00 a 

 year. Grand club with Gleanings and Rocky Mount- 

 ain Bee Journal, $1 25 a year. 



The Pacific Bee Journal. Los Angeles. Calif. 



237 East Fourth Street 



'' Colorado's Characteristics; the 

 Advantages of Irrigation ; and 

 how Western Bee-keeping Differs 

 from that of the East," is the title 

 of a six-page editorial in the Jan. 

 issue of the Bee-keepers' Review. 



The editor spent nearly two weeks, last 

 November, with hisci^mera, ainong the bee- 

 keepers of Colorado ; and this "write-up"' 

 is the result. It is illustrated by sevei al 

 pictures taken bj' the editor, showing the 

 mountains, alfalfa fields, "ricks" of alf il- 

 fa hay, herds of cattle, apiaries, hives, etc. 

 Mr. M. A. Gill, who, last year, managed 700 

 colonies in Colorado, producing two carloads 

 of comb honey, begins a series of articles 

 in this issue. His first article is on "Hive- 

 covers," and is the best of anything that 

 has yet appeared on that subject. 



Send ten cent.s for this i.ssne, and with it will be sent 

 two other late but different issues. A coupon will be 

 sent entitling the holder to the Review one year for 

 only 90 cts. 



With these copies of the Review will be sent an offer 

 whereby 12 back numbers of the Review may be se- 

 cured ^«;/i^/r/;r;',- and the first few who accept this 

 offer will get. as those 12 back numbers, the volume 

 for 1901 complete. 



W. Z. Hutchinson, Flint, Mich. 



How do you like the advertisement of Sure Hatch 

 Incubator on page 74 ? 



