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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



Mar. 15 



Victor's Strain of Italian 

 Bees Awarded the Diploma 

 as Being tlie Best Bees 

 at the Pan = American. 



BUREA U OF A WARDS. 



PAN-AMERICAN EXPOSITION, 

 Buffalo, New York U. S. A. 

 Februaiv 12, 1902. 

 Afy. IV O. Victor, Wharton, Texas. 



Dear Sir — I hRve the honor to advise you 

 that a Diploma < f Honorable Mention has been 

 awarded to you for your exhibit of Italian bees 

 at this Exposition. 



Very respectfully, Wm. I. Buchanan, 

 Director General. 



Orel L. Hershiser Bought of Me an 

 Untested Queen. This is what 

 He Says of Her Colony : 



"They are very industrious characteris'ical- 

 ly marked, and extremely gentle. It was a 

 daily experience and repeated many times 

 daily, to go into the inclosure with interested 

 visitors, at the Exposition, open the hive, full 

 to overflowing with beautiful i ees, the prog- 

 env of the queen you sent me, and handle 

 them in the various manipulations r f hunting 

 out the queen ; shaking the bees from the 

 comb, as is done in extracting, showi"g the 

 brood in all stages, etc., all without the use of 

 a smoker or any thing else to quiet the hees, 

 and I do not recollect that any one ever got a 

 St ng from any of them." 



Of the bees I exhibited at the Pan-American, 

 he says : "The nucleus you sent for exhibition 

 and award was certainly very fine-looking 

 bees, and, in my opinion, th y deserve the 

 award given them by the judges." ^^^^^g^ 



But Who is Mr. Hershiser ? 



See Gleanings of date of Feb'y I, 1902. page 

 97 Send in your orders for queens, and in a 

 short time, as Mr. Hershiser and hu-dredsof 

 others are now doing, you, too, will be singing 

 the praises of " Victor''s Bees." Price lists on 

 application. 



W. 0. VICTOR, Wharton, Tex. 



^ Queen Specialist. ^ 



Order a Swarthmore Outfit Now, and 



Rear Some Fine Queens 



For Yourself This Summer. 



Spec"alists use and recommend Swarthmore Queen- 

 rearing Dev ces. Honey-p oduc r- are successful with 

 queen-fertilizing attichmenls. Testimonials for the 

 asking. L,e ding dealers will supply the Grace Cell- 

 compres-er. Improved Nursery, Fertilizing - boxes. 

 Shell cups, etc., etc., or sent direct by addressing the 

 Swarthmore Apiaries, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania. 

 Onlers booked now for Gulden-all-over and 3-banded 

 Queens and Bees. We export. 



COR SALE.— Thirty colonies of bees in new 8- frame 

 • Dovetailed hives, at Stockbridge. Mich., at |2.60 

 per colony. W. D. Soper, Jackson, Mich. 



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TEXAS QUEENS!! 



From the Lone Star Apiaries. 

 G. F. Davidson & Son, prop's, 

 have made great prep- 

 arations for the com- 

 ing season to accom- 

 modate their many 

 customers with either 

 Ivong-tongue, Import- 

 ed St ck, or Golden 

 Queens They have 

 bought out the queen- 

 rearing business of O. 

 P. Hyde & Son. Hutto, 

 Texas Hnd by buying 

 and increasing their 

 number of nuclei, they are better prepared than ever 

 to cater to the trade of the bee-keeping public. One of 

 Root'.s L,ong-tongue Breeders; Imported vtock direct 

 from Italy; Goldens from leading queen breeders. 

 Fine breeders of each of the above have been added 

 to their yard-*. Safe arrival and satisfaction guaran- 

 teed. Send for queen circular and price list Address 

 Q. F. Davidson & Son, Box 190, Floresville, Texas. 



Tar Heel Apiaries. 



Abbott I,. Swinson, Queen-specialist in Charge. Or- 

 ders filled now For nuclei, VSc per L. frame — add 

 price of queen. Bees, SI. 00 per lb. Warranted qu^ ens, 

 $1.10 each; $10.00 per dozen. Tested, $1.50. Breeders, 

 $5.00. We have 300 colo. ies of best American albino 

 Italians and Adel hees. These bees have no superiors 

 in the long-tongue or any others. 



SWINSON & BOARDMAN, Box 358. Macon, Ga. 



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I White Wyandottes ! % 



Bred from Dustin's best. Some fine 

 cockerels on hand already to ship. 



J. F. MOORE, TIFFIN, OHIO. 



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