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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



June i 



Queens! 



Buy them of H. G. Quirin, the largest queen- 

 breeder in the North. The A. I. Root Co. tells us 

 our stock is extra fine. Editor York, of the Ameri- 

 can Bee Journal, says he has good reports from our 

 stock from time to time, while J. 1,. Gandy, of 

 Humboldt, Neb., has secured over 400 lbs. of honey 

 (mostly comb) from single colonies containing our 

 queens. We have files of testimonials similar to 

 the above. 



Our breeders originated from the highest-priced 

 long - tongued red - clover queens in the United 

 .States. 



Fine queens, promptness, and square dealing 

 have built up our present business, which was es- 

 tablished in 1SS8. 



We guarantee safe arrival to any State, conti- 

 nental island, or any European country. Can fill 

 all orders promptly, as we expect to keep three to 

 five hundred queens on hand ahead of orders. 

 Special price on 50 or 100. Circular free. Send 

 aH orders to 



Quirin the Queen=breeder, 



Post and Money-order Office, Parkertown, Ohio. 



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TEXAS QUEENS 



From the I^one .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 

 lyong-tongue. Import- 

 ed .St ck. or Golden 

 Queens They have 

 bought out the queen- 

 rearing business of O. 

 P. Hyde & .Son, Hutto, 

 Texas, and by buying 

 and increasing their 

 number of nuclei, they are better prepared than ever 

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

 Root's IvOng-tongue Breeders; Imported stock direct 

 from Italy; Goldens from leading queen breeders. 

 Fine breeders of each of the above have been added 

 to their yards. Safe arrival and satisfaction guaran- 

 teed. Send for queen circular and price list We are 

 now prepared to fill orders for Cyprian and Carnio- 

 lan queens. Good strains. Address 

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



Queens for June and July, 60c. 



f Abbott 1,. Swinson, queen speciali.st, will mail war- 

 ranted American Albino Italians (best bees known) to 

 introduce the stock, at tiO cts. each; $6.00 per dozen. 

 Everybody try them, and get the bee you need. 



SWINSON & BOARDMAN. Box 358, Macon, Ga. 



WORTHERN-BRED Red-clover Italian Queens, bred for 

 bu.siness by the best methods and from the best red- 

 clover strains; honey-gathering and wintering qualities the 

 prime object. Queens by return mail. Untested $1.00 to 

 July 1st; after then, 75c. Tested, $2.U0 and $1.50. Send for 

 descriptive circular and price li«t. 



HONEY QUEENS! 



Laws' Long=tongue Leather Queens. 



Laws' Improved Golden Queens. 



Laws' Holy Land Queens. 



I,aws' queens are the standard-bred queens of Amer- 

 ica. The largest honey-producers use them and praise 

 them. I,aws' queens go everywhere, and can furnish 

 you a queen every month in the year. Four apiaries. 

 Queens bred in their purity. Prices, October to April: 

 Tested or untested, $1.00 each ; 6 for $5.00. Breeders, 

 none better, $3 00 each. Address 



W. H. Laws, Beeville, Texas. 



I Make Red=clover Workers 



and I can work in flowers and get 

 honej' where others can't. I am guar- 

 anteed to work in red clover. Will 

 forfeit 8100 to any one coming here, 

 and proving that they can't work 

 clover. Twenty years' experience in 

 liees and queens. All queens are rear- 

 ed from best mothers and best methods. In 1900 many 

 of my colonies .stored 200 lbs. and over of red-clover 

 honey. Our bees commenced swarming in April this 

 year. It takes only good stock to swarm so early. 

 One untested, 7.5c; dozen, $7.00. Tested, .fl.OO; dozen, 

 $10.00. Breeders, S5.00. Four -frame nucleus, four- 

 frame hive nicely painted, and nice queen, S3. 00 each. 

 Queens by return mail. Fifty to 100 queens at special 

 prices. Money-order office, Guernsej'. 



Q. Routzahn, flenallen. Pa. 

 Va- m- PURE ITALIAN BEES "©a "^ft 



The most beautiful, most prolific, most docile, most vpork- 

 ing, and, since LONG-TONGUED, the mo.'^t HONEY- 

 GATHER BEE RACE in the WORLD. PRIZES: Agricul- 

 tural E.xhibition, BERNE, 1895; National Exposition, GE- 

 NEVA, LS96; Bee-keeping Exposition, LIEGE (Belgium), 

 1896. BEST SELECTED QUEENS (young tested), $2; 6, $11; 

 every dozen, $130. Extra Select Breeding Queens, taken di- 

 rect from wonderful hives having tested a honey harvest of 

 150 till 3U0 lb. (WORTH $10) ¥3 each; 6, tl6; dozen, $3U, by re- 

 turn mail. NOT.\ BENE. In the past years many difficul- 

 ties opposed the expedit ions of queens. Numerous attempts 

 were established with my brother, resident in California, 

 and NOW THE PROBLEM IS SOLVED. I can send the 

 queens at any point without failure til) a journey of 45 days, 

 while the journey to the ITnited States is only 10 to 17 days. 

 Every bee-keeper can now have the Italian Queens at own 

 home, directly iniiiorted from Italy in her splendid purity, 

 and ITALI-VNIZE the stocks of common bees and other in- 

 ferior strains. Lately I have had the honor to receive or- 

 ders of Messrs. Chas. Dadant & Son, of Hamilton, 111., the 

 well-known revisers of the book, " THE HIVE AND THE 

 HONEY-BEE," of the celebrated LANGSTROTH, the fa- 

 ther of American apiculture. Please, in writ i at;, mention 

 Gleanings. BIAGGI ANTHONY. 



Pedevilla, near Bellinzona, Italian Switzerland. 



Headquarters for the Albino Bee. 



The Best in the World. 



If you are looking for the bees that gather the most 

 honey, and are the gentlest of all bees to handle, buy 

 the Albino. 1 can also furnish Italians, but orders 

 stand fifty to one in favor of the Albino. Select tested 

 Albino queen before June, for breeding, $1.00; tested, 

 $2.50; untested, $1.00; Italians, 11.00. I have located an 

 apiary near Rocky Ridge, Md., and most of my queens 

 will be shipped from there Other supplies will be 

 furnished from Hagerstown, Maryland. Address me 

 at Rocky Ridge, Md., for queens. S. Valentine. 



Did You Know That 



the Long-tongue Red clover Queens are in the lead? 

 Orders are ten to one in their favor. Untested queens 

 after May 1st, 75c; (i for $1..50; 12 for $8.00; 3-frame nu- 

 cleus and untested queen, $2.75. We are now ready to 

 fill all orders by return mail. Send us your orders 

 and see what fine bees and queens you will get. Or- 

 der from this advertisement and save correspondence. 

 PRESTON STORE & BEE CO., 



Dority, Preston Co., W. Va. 



