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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



July 1 



10 CENTS 



That's all it costs to get acquainted with the 



Rocky Mountain 

 Bee Journal. 



We want to send it on trial to every 

 reader of Gleanings Three Months for 

 10 cts. This vigorous young month- 

 ly has just entered its second year on 

 a' paying basis, and has become the 

 recognized mouthpiece of the bee- 

 keepers of the great Rocky Mountain 

 alfalfa regions. Address 



The Rocky Mountain Bee Journal, 



Box 611. Boulder. Colorado. 



I Make Red=cIover Workers 



"<wj>/^l^^^ and I can work in flowers and get 

 J ,1 v^ honey where others can't. I am guar- 

 / i/-\ \ anteed to work in red clover. Will 

 feir*tl~'T^^^ forfeit 8100 to any one coming here, 

 cw Wmiar 'SC^ and proving that they can't work 

 clover. Twenty years" experience in 

 bees and queens. All queens are rear- 

 ed from best mothers and best methods. In 1900 many 

 of mj' 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 earlv. 

 One untested, 75c; dozen, S7.00. Tested, .$1.00; dozen, 

 $10.00. Breeders, $5.00. Golden queens as well as 

 Red-clover. Four-frame nucleus, four-frame hive 

 nicely painted, and nice queen. $3.00 each. Queens by 

 return mail. Fifty to 100 queens at special prices. 

 Money-order office, Guernsey. 



Q. Routzahn. rienallen, Pa. 



NONE BUT THE BEST QUEENS 



ARE GOOD ENOUGH FOR ANY ONE. 



No bee-keeper wants to give hive room to inferior 

 bees. The best queens fill their hives with brood. The 

 best bees fill their supers with honey. Everj^ bee- 

 keeper knows this, but does not know that o«r strain 

 of Italians are in the lead. Try them. You will not 

 be disappointed. Choice tested queens, 61.00 each. 

 Untested, 75c; $S.0O per doz. Send for price list. 



J. W. K. SHAW & CO., Loreauville, La. 



the fatherland of Columbus, is the same of the best 

 honey-bee. Best select long-tongued young tested 

 Italian Queens, $l\ extra select breeding queens (one 

 j-ear old, worth 810), SlOO; bv return mail. Address 

 with mention of Gleanings, BIAGGI ANTHONY, 



Pedevilla, near Bellinzona, Italian Switzerland. 



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. 



Minnesota Bee-keepers' Supply Mfg. Co., 



Manufacturers of 



Bee-hives, Sections, Shipping-cases, and 

 Everything Used by Bee-keepers. 



Orders filled promptly. We have the best shipping 

 facilities in the world. You will save money by send- 

 ing for our price list. Address 



Minnesota Bee=keepers' Supply Mfg. Co., 

 Nicollet Island Power Building, Minneapolis, Minn. 



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. I,. Gandj', of 

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

 (mosth-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 1S8S. 



Price of Queens After July First. 



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 

 all orders to 



Quirin the Queen=breeder, 



I Post and Money-order Office, Parkertown, Ohio. 



HONEY QUEENS! 



Laws' Leather=colored Queens. 



Laws' Improved Golden Queens. 



Laws' Holy Land Queens. 



A prominent queen-breeder writes : " I have reared 

 and sold over .5000 queens in the past few years, and I 

 am using your stock exclusively, as it is the best I can 

 get." Another writes : "The queen mother I got of 

 you is the best queen I ever saw." -A. prominent writer 

 for the Refiew states the L,aws queen is making a fine 

 showing. Many nice letters indicative of the superi- 

 orit\- of Laws' queens on file. Prices : Tested or un- 

 tested, $1.00 each; six for $5.00 Discount on large lots. 

 Write for circular. 



W. H. Laws, Beeville, Texas. 



Built for Long Service 



FROM THREE FACTORIES 



We ship direct to the consumer 

 We make the most reliable line of 

 vehicle.-,, liarness, etc., t<> Ije 

 found anywhere and sell at 

 the lowcMt wholesale prices/ 



We Handle No 

 Low-Grade Work. _ _ 



strong, durable material and good honest workmanship make 

 oa» vehicles and harness outlast two of the ordinary- kind. 

 WritP at DnPO '<"■"•"■ guaranteed freicht eharees to your 

 IIIIIC 01 UlluC station on any vehicle. Carts from 1 11. 00 to 

 $38.75; Road Wagons from $28.90 to » 105 00; Buggies from $36 

 to $S2.45; Surreys from $52.20 to $120.12; Spring Wagonsfrom 

 $37.50 to $112.50; Farm Wagons from $31,55 to $ti5 65; Single 

 Harness from $4 SO to $20.20; Farm harness from $12.80 to $39 00 

 WF ^PMR PRPF t'>*>>"°?«>t illustrated TehleU and Har. 

 »'l- OLIIUI ntt nesi catalog erer Issned. Send for it. 

 CASH BUTESS' UNION, Uept. £.84», 0HICA60. 



