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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



Apr. 1 



Victor's Strain of Italian 

 Bees Awarded the Diploma 

 as Being the Best Bees 

 at the Pan=Anierican. 



B LIRE A U OF A WARDS. 



PAN-AMERICAN EXPOSITION,^ 

 Buffalo, New York, U. S. A. 

 Februai v 12, 1902. 

 Mr. W. O. Victor, Wharton, Texas. 



Dear Sir. — I have the honor to advise you 

 that a Diploma cf HonoraVjle Mention has been 

 awarded to yon for j'onr 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 characteristical- 

 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 tiees, the prog- 

 eny of the queen you .sent me, and handle 

 them in the various manipulations of hunting 

 out the queen ; shaking the bees from the 

 comb, as is done in extracting, showing the 

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

 a smoker or any thing else to quiet the bees, 

 and I do not recollect that any one ever got a 

 sting 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, tht y desen-e the 

 award given them by the judges." 



But Who is Mr. Hershiser ? 



See Gleanings of date of Feb'y 1, 1902, page 

 97 Send in your orders for queens, and in a 

 short time, as Mr. Hershiser and hundreds of 

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

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

 application. 



W. 0. VICTOR, Wharton, Tex. 



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THE BEST PLACE 



to send orders for queens when you want golden stock 

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GEO. J. VANDE VORD, Daytona, Fla. 



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