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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



Apr. 1 



J. E. HAND will begin tiie season of 1909 with improved facilities for rearing the 



CHOICEST QUEENS 



He has developed a system of queen-rearing that contains all the best points of other methods with none of the de- 

 fects, including some valuable improvements of his own — in short, a system through which the highest queen develop- 

 ment is reached by correct and scientific principles, which means that he is now in position to offer to the bee-keeping 

 public a higher class of queens than has ever before been offered by any breeder, owing to scientific methods which 

 produce queens of a higher development than can be reared by the oriinary methods in vogue, and also to an improved 

 method of classifying queens which st'ikes the word select from our list, and gives a square deal to all. No selects 

 means no culls, and the highest grade of queens in the untested and tested classes. These queens will be reared 

 from a superior strain of hardy northern-bred red-clover Italians, " the very best," and will be safely delivered to 

 any address in the United States, Cuba, Canada, or Mexico, at the following prices; Untested, $1.25; J, $3.00; 

 warranted, $1.50; 3, $4.00; tested, $2.00; 3, $5.00. Book orders now, send money when queens are wanted. Valu- 

 able information free. Send for it to-day. 



J. E. HAND, BIRMINGHAM, OHIO, ERIE CO. 



LONG-TONGUED RED-GLGVER 

 BEES. 



This is their Headquarters. 



I am the Man who Originated 

 them. 



F.J. WARDELL, 

 Uhrichsville, O; 



This strain of bees undoubtedly excels all others iri 

 honey-gathering qualities. There is certainly none 

 better at any price. They are handsome, too, as my 

 testimonials will show. Read what a well-known 

 lawyer of San Antonio, Texas, says about my queens: 



San Antonio, Texas, Jan. 20, 1909. 

 F. J. WARDELL, Uhrichsville, O. 



Dear Sir: — The select breeding queen ordered 

 from you about the 20th of last September was such 

 a beauty, and gave such prompt results, that I im- 

 mediately ordered others. I am well pleased, and 

 expect to do further business with you. 



Very truly yours, Louis Maverick. 



If you will favor me with an order for queens I expect 

 to treat you in the same way so as to get further orders. 

 1 have many more testimonials of a like character, and 

 will please you also should you intrust me with your 

 orders. No poor indifferent queens at any price will be 

 sent out. None but the best grade of pure Italian stock. 



Write me now, stating what you want for next sea- 

 son. If you require a good breeding queen I have some 

 that will suit in every way. Send for circular. 



April and I June to 

 May. Oct. 



Untested $1.25 $1.00 



Select untested 1.50 1.25 



Tested 2.50 2.00 



Select tested 3. 50 3. 00 



Breeding queens 5.00 3.50 



Select breeding queens 9.00 7.50 



Extra-select breeding queens 12 00 10.00 



Please send for my circular. My address is 

 F. J. WARDELL, . UHRICHSVILLE, OHIO 



PHARR'S G0I.DE:NS 



took flrpt prize at three exhibits In 1907. We also breed Carci- 

 olaDS, three-banded Italians, and ('aucaslans, bred In se]iurate 

 yards and from the best breeders obtainable; >;iiarantee safe 

 delivery and fairtreatment. Untested. II; tested, SI. a.'j. Address 



New Century ftueen-rearinj Co., Berealr.Tei. John W. Phair, Prop 



Golden H Red-clover 

 Italian Queens 



My queens are large and prolific. Their workers are 

 hardy and good honey-gatherers. Give them a trial. 

 Untested, one, $1.00; six, $5.00. Select untested, one, 

 $1.25; six, $6.50. Select tested, $2.00 each. I am book- 

 ing orders now to be filled in rotation after May 25. 



No nuclei or colonies for sale this season. 



WM. A. SHUFF, 4426 Osage Ave., Phila., Pa. 



Carniolan,Banat,and 

 Caucasian Queens 



Imported, $5.00 each; homebred, $1.00 each, five for $4.00. 

 Best strains from apiaries personally inspected by 



FRANK BENTON, box 17, Washington, D. C. 



Golden Italian (>'l 

 QUEENS 01 



Same old stand and stock. Ready now. 



J. B. CASE, . PORT ORANGE, FLA. 



Not Cheap Queens, but Queens Cheap 



Di'X'T BIY VIKENS rNTIt, Y<ir SKE MY 



FREE OFFER 



Red-clover three-band queens as follows: Untested, 1, 75c; 6. 

 $4.20; tested. 1. SI. 00; 6, S.'i.TO; select breeder. $.■> 00 



Nuelel with untested queen. one-frame. 81.75; two frame. $2.25: 

 with tested queen, one-frame. 82.00; two-frame, *2.50. 



Five-band or g-olden queens as follows; Untested. 1. $1.00; 

 6. $5.70; tested. 1, $1..50; 6, SX.70. Breeders. 1, $10.00. 



If iiueens are wanted In large quantity, write for prices. 



Dlrectliins for buildliiK up weak colonies. 10 cts. 



W. J. LITTLEFIELD, LITTLE ROCK, ARK., RT. 3. 



WE ARE SITUATED 



at the most central shipping-point in Northern New England, 

 and with our general bee and honey business are best fitted to 

 serve the bee-keepers of Maine, Vermont, and New Hamp- 

 shire. Our supply department is stocked with a full line of 



ROOT'S GOODS EXCLUSIVELY 

 and we can please you. Our catalog and circulars are free. 



Our address is CEO. R. CRAFFAM & BRO. 

 WAREHOUSE, 105 Third Street, 

 OFFICE, 47 Main Street, BANCOR, MAINE. 



