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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



Mar. 1 



BEESWAX 



WANTED 



■\X7E are always in the market for bees- 

 wax, and will pay the best market 

 price. We used last year in the manufac- 

 ture of Comb Foundation over 



EIGHTY TONS 



and are likely to need fully as much for 

 this year's trade. Send your wax direct to 

 us, being sure to pack it carefully for 

 safe shipment, and mark it so we can easily 

 tell who sends it. Write to us, at the same 

 time sending a shipping receipt, and stating 

 weight of shipment, both gross and net. 



We are paying at this date for pure aver- 

 age beeswax delivered here, 29 cents per 

 pound cash, or 31 cents in trade. On 

 choice yellow wax we pay a premium of 

 one to two cents a pound. 



THE A. I. ROOT COMPANY, MEDINA, OHIO 



House- 



Boo Supply 



Everything for Bees 



We manufacture the latest ap- 

 proved supplies and sell direct 

 at factory prices. We're old- 

 time bee peoplein abeecountry. 

 We know your needs. Early 

 order disconnts. Send for cat- 

 alog. Don'tbuy till it comes. 



LEAHY MANUFACTURINQ CO. 



10 Talmage St., Hlgglnsvine, Mo. 

 1699 South 13th St., Omaha, Neb. 

 Also E. T. Flanagan & Sons, Box 2, Belleville. III. 



bees and queens for the season of 1909. 

 Fine well-bred queens are his specialty; and in all the queens 

 mailed during the past 18 years there is not a displeased customer 

 that I know of. On the other hand, letters of praise come from 

 every source. Mr. Wm. Hughes, of Washington, D. C, writes 

 that he has been handling queens for the past twenty years, and 

 he has never found any that equal or please him so well as the 

 two dozen he bought of me last season. I can and do mail 

 queens every month in the year, California and Cuba takingover 

 100 in the past month of December. I will mail queens from 

 now on at the one price of $1.00 each or 6 for $5.00. Breeding 

 queens, each, $5.00. Write for prices on quantity lots. Address 

 W. H. LAWS, Beevllle, Bee County. Texas. 



Poultry and Bee 

 Supplies 





This 



is ivhere <zve 



shine. 



A large and complete stock always on hand, and all the 

 latest goods made. 



Prairie State Incubators 

 and Brooders, 



The most reliable machines made to-day; they are 

 guaranteed to please, or money will be refunded. How 

 does that sound .' 



Root's Bee Supplies 



The best made, the most satisfactory, and, above all, 

 the cheapest in the end; no misfits or knotty stuff; 

 every piece fits in its place; the kind you have always 

 had, and we know the kind every successful manager of 

 bees wants. Root's Quality counts with us. 



Send in your orders; we will do the rest. 



Our new 1909 catalog will be out soon. Send us 

 your name for one, and be in the lead. They are free. 



GRIGGS BROS. & NICHOLS CO. 



523 Monroe St., TOLEDO, OHIO. 



Listen ! 



We wish to announce that we have pur- 

 chased The A. I. Root Co.'s supply busi- 

 ness for Western Pennsylvania from Mr. 

 John N. Prothero, of DuBois, Pa., and are 

 ready to fill orders promptly with a full line 

 of supplies 



Root's Goods 



always give satisfaction. Three-per-cent 

 discount in February on cash orders, from 

 catalog prices. 



Geo. H. Rea has turned his entire bee business over to 

 us. We can supply you with the very best Italian bees and 

 queens. Orders booked now for spring delivery about 

 May 1. Every queen purely mated, each, $1.00; dozen, 

 $11.00. 



Two-frame nucleus and queen, $2.00; very strong 

 colony, $10.00. 



Three-frame nucleus and queen, $3.50; medium colony, 

 $8.00. 



Four-frame nucleus and queen, $5.00; good hybrids, $5. 00. 



Bees in 8 or 10 frame hives; good queen in each. 



We can supply you with any thing in the 



Bee Line. 



BIG BEE SALE. —300 colonies offered. 



30 per cent discount on good Italians, 

 25 per cent discount on good Hybrids, 

 on all cash orders for full colonies received by March 25. 



REA BEE & HONEY CO., 



Reynoldsvllle, ... Pennsylvania. 



