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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



June 15 



■^iX — V.A.I' 



TEXAS QUEENS!! 



Fxom the Lone Star Apiaries. 

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

 have :nade great prep- 

 arations for the com- 

 ing season to accom- 

 modate their many 

 customers with either 

 lyong-tongue. Import- 

 ed Stock, 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 of the bee-keeping public. One of 

 Root's Long-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 

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



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; 6 for $4.50; 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. 



pOR SALE. — 100 Langstroth winter hives, supers, 

 ' zinc honey-boards, bee-escapes, and feeders. 



Karl Keim, 149 York .St., Buffalo, N. Y. 



A Warranted 



Red=clover 



Queen, 30 cts. 



An Offer for New 

 Subscribers. 



We want to add a lot of new readers to our WEEK- 

 LY AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL list. For that reason 

 we are making those who are not now reading our 

 journal regularly, this liberal offer: Send us SI. 30 and 

 we will mail you the Bee Journal for a whole year, 

 and also one of our WARRANTED LONG-TONGUED- 

 RED-CLOVER QUEENS— untested Italian. 



We have arranged with one of the oldest and best 

 queen-breeders (having many years' experience) to 

 rear queens for us this season. His bees average quite 

 a good deal the longest tongues of any j-et measured. 

 The breeder he will use is direct from Italy, having 

 imported her himself. Her worker-bees are large, 

 somewhat leather-colored, very gentle, and scarcely 

 requiring veil or smoke. They stored red-clover 

 honey last season. All queens guaranteed to arrive in 

 good condition, and all will be clipped unless other- 

 wise ordered. They will be mailed in rotation, begin- 

 ning about June 1st, so " first come, first served." 



Headquarters in Chicago for Root's 

 Bee-supplies at Root's Prices. . . . 



A free catalog and a sample of the American 

 Bee Journal on request. 



George W. Yorl^ & Co., Chicago, 111, 



144-146 Erie Street. 



HONEY QUEENS I 



Laws' Long°tongue Leather Queens. 



Laws' Improved Golden Queens. 



Laws' Holy Land Queens. 



Laws' queens are the standard-bred queens of Amer- 

 ica. The largest honey-producers use them and praise 

 them. Laws' 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, $:i.00 each. Address 



W. H. Laws, Beeville, Texas. 



Imp't'd Queens Direct from Italy 



Please send us your address on a postal card, and we 

 will send you our price list of queens, written in Eng- 

 lish. Our motto: "Whatsoever ye would that men 

 should do to vou, do ye even so to them." Address 

 Malan Brothers. - . . . Queen-breeders, 

 " Apiario," Luserna, San Giovanni, Italy. 



Queens for June and July, 60c. 



Abbott L. Swinson, queen specialist, will mail war- 

 ranted American Albino Italians (best bees known) to 

 introduce the stock, at 60 cts. each; $6.00 per dozen. 

 Everybody try them, and get the bee you need. 



SWINSON & BOARDMAN, Box 358, Macon, Ga. 



WOKTHERN-BRED Red-clover Italian Queens, bred for 

 business 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, $'2.00 and $L50. Send for 

 descriptive ci rcu lar and price list. 



