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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTUKE. 



Mav 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 EXPO.SITION, "l 

 BrFFALO, New York. U. S. A. v 

 Febriiaiy 12, 1902. j 

 My. H^ O. Victor, IVharion, Texas. 



Dea) Sir: — I have the honor to advise you 

 that a Diploma of 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 verj- industrious, characteristical- 

 ly marked, and extremely gentle. It vras 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 bees, 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, they deserve the 

 award given them by the judges." 



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But Who is Mr. Hershisen? 



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

 97. Send in your orders for queens, and iu 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. 



I Am Filling Orders by Return Mail from 

 This Superior Stock at Following Prices : 



Untested queens: 1, $1.00; 6, fo.OO. Select un- 

 tested queens: 1, Sl-25; G, $6.00. Tested queens: 

 1, $1.50; 6, $8.00. Select tested queens: 1, $2.00; 

 6, $11.00. Breeders, $3.00 to $7 00. See circular 

 for specifications. 



W. 0. VICTOR, Wharton, Tex. 



^ Queen Specialist. 



Built for Long Service 



FROM THREE FACTORIES 



We t-hip direct to the consumer 

 We make tlie most reliable line of 

 vehicles, harness, etc., t'i tie 

 found anywhere and sell «t 

 the lowest wholesale prices 



We Handle No 

 Low-Grade Werk. 



strong, durable material «nd good honest workm.inship make 

 our vehicles and harness outlast two of the ordinary kind. 

 WritO at HnPO f""" •""'■ g'"»r»nleed freight «harges to your 



If I lie Hi UlluC station on any vehicle. Carts from $11. 00 to 

 $38.7.5; Road Wagons from $28.90 to 110.5 00; Buggies from $30 



to $82 45; Surreys from $52.20 to $120.12; Spring Wagons from 

 $37.50 to $112 50; Farm Wagons from S3I..55 to $t)5 65; Single 

 Harness from %i SO to $20.20; Farm harness from $12.80 to $39 00 

 WP ^PKin PRPF ^'"' ^"^"^^ illQslraled TehieU and Har- 



iTCOLIIU rnCL nesa eatslof ever issned. Send for it. 

 CASH BUTEKS' UMON, Uept. £-845, OJIIOAdO. 



Wants and Exchange. 



\\7ANTED. — Comb honey in Danzenbaker sections in 

 ' ' exchange for supplies, or will pay cash. We pre- 

 fer large lots of white honey, but can use .some amber 

 in this size. The A. I. Root Co., Medina, Ohio. 



y^ANTED.— To sell Rocky Ford cantaloupe seed. 

 ' ' Seed of these famous melons postpaid, 40 cts. per 

 pound. Choice selected stock. 



H. F. Hagen, Rocky Ford, Colorado. 



U/'ANTED.— To know who has 200 colonies of bees to 

 ' ' sell cheap ; also what young man would like to 

 serve an apprenticeship with Ouirin the queen-breed- 

 er. H. G. QuiRiN, Parkertown, O. 



WANTED.— One dollar for 15 W. P. Rock eggs; S3. 00 

 for 50, or 85.00 for 100; from 98 to 95 scoring birds; 

 cockerels and pullets, $1.00 each; 75 cts. for one Golden 

 Italian queen, or $8.(X) per dozen — after August 1st, 50c 

 each or $5.00 per dozen. 



Geo. W. Cook, Spring Hill, Kansas. 



11/ ANTED. — Bee keepers to study our advertisement 

 ' ' and testimonial of queens in April 1st Gleanings. 

 R. F. HOLTERMANN, Manager Bee Department. 

 Bow Park Co., Limited, Brantfoid, Canada. 



WANTED.— Second-hand or knocked -down hives. 

 Describe them, with price. Also want a man 

 who knows how to handle bees a little. 



W. I,. COGGSHALL, West Grotou, N. Y. 



\VANTED. — To exchange saiLs. spars, and rigging of 

 '" 20-ft. boat, for small printing-press, foot circular 



.saw, wheel hoe and seeder, bee fi.xtures, or any thing 

 useful. J. H. Chase, 1364 N. Ave.. Bridgeport, Ct. 



WANTED. — To sell bees and queens. Also putty- 

 knife with iron handle and strong steel blade — 

 just the thing for prying and scraping about hives, 

 etc., 15c postpaid. O. H. Hy.att, Shenandoah, la. 



WANTED. — An offer for 150 good heavy-top brood- 

 combs; Root size. W. W. KuLP, Pottstown, Pa. 



WANTED. — To .sell 70 hives of bees, some nuclei, 

 stands, and frames: good condition; many fix- 

 tures. Write quick. Chas. G. Miller, Cuero, Te.x. 



ANTED.— To sell from 40 to 50 Italian and hybrid 

 colonies. August Nigabo'wer, 



19 Center Street, Ilion, New York. 



ANTED.— Prices on comb and extracted honey, 

 and sorghum. I,. R. Bidwell, Watonga, O. T. 



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WANTED. — A printing press, or best cash offer for 

 the following: 125 eight-frame dovetailed extract- 

 ing supers, 534 deep; 1000 cljsed-end frames for same; 

 175 eight-frame comb-honey supers, 17^ long inside 

 by 438 deep, with flat tins. All the supers are 19inches 

 long, outside measure, and are new goods in the flat; 

 25 covers for the above nailed and painted; 10 wood- 

 zinc queen-excluders; 8 lbs. section foundation; 5 lbs. 

 brood foundation ; 1 Bingham uncapping-knife ; 2 

 queen-traps; 1 queen-clipping device; 1 smoker. 



E. W. Brown, Morton Park, Cook Co., 111. 



