10 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



Apr. 15 



J E. HAND will begin the 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 impro-vemcnts 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 grade of queens than is usually offered in the common utitility classes, owing toscientitic methods which 

 produce queens of a higher development than can be reared by the ordinary 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. 



Queens for Business, 



As well as Handsome. 



BRED BY A SPECIALIST 



F. J. WARDELL, Uhrichsville, O. 



Here is the kind of testimonials I get 

 from customers: 



Linfield, Pa., Sept. 11, 1908. 

 Mr. F. J. Wardell, Uhrichsville, O. 



Dear Sir: — Enclosed please find my check for 

 $2.00, for which please forward me by return mail 

 two more of those queens like the last two I got 

 from you. One of them has every frame filled with 

 eggs except the two outside ones, which is filled 

 with honey. I got queens from another party in 

 the fore part of August, and not one of them has 

 equaled yours in egg production so far. H. Fry. 



I can please you as well as Mr Fry. My 

 strain is the original red-clover long- 

 tongued Italians, with three bands. They 

 are hustlers, and handsome too. Nothing 

 but high-grade stock sent out. I have no 

 poor stock to sell. Should you require a 

 very high-grade breeding queen I generally 

 have a few in stock. 



Please send for my circular. 



April and May. JunetoOct. 



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 



ITALIAN QUEENS 



Good leather-colored queens bred for business — no disease; 

 prompt shipment, extra good stock. June, 90c; six for $1.75; 

 20or more at 60c each, later less. Satisfaction, or money back. 



8. F. TREGO. . . SWEDON A, ILL. 



took firet prize at three exhibits In 1907. We also breed Carni- 

 olans, three-bauded Italians and Caucasians, bred In separate 

 yards and from the best breeders obtainable; guarantee safe 

 delivery and fair treatment. Untested. $1 ; tested, tl. 2.=). Address 



New Century Qtieen-reanng Co., Bercair.Tei. John W. Pharr. 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 <>'f 

 QUEENS <>■ 



Same old stand and stock. Ready now. 



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



Not Cheap Queens, but Queens Cheap 



DON'T Bl'Y yl'KENS INTIT. Vol! SEE MY 



FREE OFFER 



Red-cliver three-band queens as follows: Untested. 1. 7,5c ; fi. 

 84.20; tested. 1. 81.00; 6.85 70; select breeder. 8.'> 00 



Nuclei with untested queen, one-frame, 81.75; two frame. 82.25; 

 with tested queen, one-frame. $2.00; two-frame, 82.50. 



Five-band or golden queens as follows: Untested, 1. 81.00; 

 », $5.70; tested, 1, $1.50; 6, 88.70. Breeders. 1. $10.00. 



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



Directions for building up weak colonies. 10 cts. 



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



CALIFORNIA 



Bee-keepers who are looking for highest quality of bees should 

 try our strain of Italians, a proven racain all qualities; ideal for 

 all conditions. 



LEATHER-COLORED AND GOLDEN ITALIANS. 



Untested, each, $1.00; six, $5.00; doz., $<).00. 



Tested, $2.00. Breeders, $5.00 and up. 



Satisfaction, or money back. 



C. A. WURTH, VENTURA, GAL. 



