GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



Feb. 1 



Sa'tisf iod Ous-tomors, 



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 1 901. 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 Long-Tongued Clover Stock, the Supe- 

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

 ing for years, in reijarcl to which I have the following-: 



Buffalo, N. Y., Aug-. 31, 1901. 

 Mv Dear I'icfor: — Queen and nucleus arrived safely yesterday; made 

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

 a Dovetailed hive this morning-, withont sjnoke, and hatidled theui, patting 

 them on the bac/c, 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, wliich would include some 25 or 30 

 different breeders, and all the well-known races. 



Yours very truly, Orel L. Hershiser. 



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 granddaughters. 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- delivery ; first come first served. 



Untested queens: 1, S1.0;1; fl. *.').03. Select untested queens: 1, f 1 25 ; (5, fCi.OO. Tested queens: 1, $1.50; 

 6, 88.00 Select tested queens: 1, 52.00; (>, $11.00. Breeders, J" 00 to S7.00. See circular for specifications. 



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



W. 0. VICTOR, Queen Specialist, 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 Journal, 



Los Angeles, Calif., 



whose correspondents are success- 

 ful producers of tons and tons — 

 20 to 8o 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 

 gotten up and illustrated; most appropriate 

 cover design. 



Clubbed with Gleaning.s, new or renewal, $1.00 a 

 year. Grand club with Gleanings and Rocky Mount- 

 ain Bee Jo\iruaI, $i 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 Hast," 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 his camera, among the bee- 

 keepers of Colorado ; and this "write-up" 

 is the result. It is illustrated by several 

 pictures taken by the editor, showing the 

 mountains, alfalfa fields, "ricks" of alfal- 

 fa haj', herds of cattle, apiaries, hives, etc. 

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

 colonies in Colorado, producing two carloads 

 of comb hone3% 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 cents for this i.ssue, 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'_/)cc,- 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. 



Your attention is called to advertisement of .Sure 

 Hatch incubator on page 119 of this issue. 



