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Sicilian Buttercups. " Quality, not quantity," our 

 motto. Eggs, $1.50 and $3.00 per 15. 



Walter M. Adema, Berlin, Mich. 



A golden opportunity to secure eggs from beauti- 

 ful birds, and great egg-layers, at a moderate cost ; 

 eggs, 15, $1.00; $6.00 per 100; eggs from large 

 rich red S. C. R. I. Reds, same price. " How to 

 Rear and produce an abundance of eggs from the 

 Twentieth Century Egg-machine " goes with each 

 order. Fertility and safe delivery absolutely guar- 

 anteed. Rob't Bird Pinckneyville, 111. 



Chiclcen feed, hen feed, alfalfa meal, pigeon feed, 

 mash, $1.73 per 100-pound sack; beef scrap, $3.30; 

 granulated bone, $2.70; charcoal, $2.00; Kaffir corn, 

 $1.60; cracked corn, $1.60; corn meal, $1.60; lin- 

 seed meal or cottonseed meal, $2.20; oyster-shells, 65 

 cts. ; mica, crisco, or pearl grits, 75 cts. ; lime nest- 

 eggs, 75 cts. per box ; poultry bread, 60 cts. per 

 sack. Mail orders promptly filled. 



Fountain Supply Co., St. Louis, Mo. 



BEEKEEPERS DIRECTORY 



Nutmeg Italian queens, leather color, after June 

 1, $1.00. A. W. Yates, Hartford, Ct. 



Well-bred bees and queens. Hives and supplies. 

 J. H. M. Cook, 70 Cortlandt St., New York. 



Improved golden-yellow Italian queens for 1913; 

 beautiful, hustling, gentle workers. Send for price 

 list. E. E. Lawrence, Doniphan, Mo. 



Queens. — Improved red-clover Italians, bred for 

 business; June 1 to Nov. 15, untested queens, 75 

 cts.; select, $1.00; tested, $1.25 each. Safe arrival 

 and satisfaction guaranteed. 



H. C. Clemons, Boyd, Ky. 



Quirin's famous improved Italian queens, nuclei, 

 colonies, and bees by the pound, ready in May. 

 Our stock is northern-bred and hardy ; five yards 

 wintered on summer stands in 1908 and 1909 with- 

 out ft single loss. For prices, send for circular. 

 Quiein-the-Queen-bReedee, Bellevue, Ohio. 



Convention Notices 



program of the national beekeepers' conven- 

 tion to be held at CINCINNATI, OHIO, WED- 

 NKSDAV and THURSDAY, FEB. 12 AND 13. 



The meeting will be called to order at 10 a. m., 

 when a committee on credentials will be appointed. 

 Meeting will then adjourn for the filing of delegates' 

 credentials. 



AFTERNOON SESSION. 



1 P. M. — The following order of business will be 

 observed : 



1. Appointment of a committee on resolutions; a 

 committee on constitution ; an auditing committee, 

 and a committee on good of the order. 



2. President's address. 



3. Vice-president's report. 



4. Secretary's report. 



5. Treasurer's report. 



6. Directors' report. 



7. Legislative Committee's report. 



8. Proposed amendments. 



EVENING SESSION, 7 P. M. 



1. Address. — " Needs of the Western Beekeep- 

 ers," by Wesley Poster, Boulder, Col. 



2. Discussion. 



3. Address. — " Why the Production of Comb Hon- 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



ey should be Increased," by Ernest R. Root, of Me- 

 dina, Ohio. 



i. Discussion. 



MORNING SESSION, 8 A. M. 



1. Report of the Auditing Committee. 



2. Amendments to the constitution. 



3. Incorporation of the National. 



4. Election of officers and directors. 



5. Report of committee on uniform grading-rules 

 — buyers and producers. 



6. Discussion of uniform shipping cases. 



7. Other business. 



AFTERNOON SESSION, 1 O'CLOCK. 



1. Address. — " Some Recent Achievements, with 

 suggestions for 1913," by Dr. B. N. Gates, of Am- 

 herst, Mass. 



2. Discussion. 



3. Short talks by the delegates; each delegate will 

 be called on for an addi'ess on any topic he sees fit 

 to select. 



4. Question-box. 



After much correspondence the Grand Hotel, lo- 

 cated at the corner of Fourth and Central Avenues, 

 has been selected as our headquarters. The hotel 

 will hold about five hundred people. The rates for 

 rooms (European plan) are from $1.00 each person, 

 up, without bath, and $2.00 up, with bath. The 

 convention will be held on the second floor. All ses- 

 sions will be open to the public; but the voting will 

 be done only by the delegates. 



A list of the hotels is as follows: 



Hotel Alms (American plan), $3.00 up. 



Bristol Hotel (European plan), 50 cts. up. 



Burnett House (American plan), $2.50 up. 



Hotel Emery (European plan), $1.00 iip. 



Gerdes Hotel (European plan), $1.00 up. 



Grand Hotel (European plan), $1.00 up. 



Gib.son House (European plan), $1.50 up. 



Hotel Havlin (European plan), $1.50 up. 



Honing Hotel (European plan), $1.50 up. 



Hotel Hoemer (European plan), 50 cts. up. 



Hotel Lackman-Stag (European plan), $1.00 up. 



Hotel Oxford (European plan), 50 cts. up. 



Munro Hotel-Stag (European plan), $1.00 up. 



Pallace Hotel (American plan), $2.00 up. 



Princeton Hotel (European plan), 75 cts. up. 



Hotel Rand (European plan), 50 cts. up. 



Hotel Savoy (European plan), $1.00 up. 



Hotel Sinton (European plan), $2.00 up. 



Stag Hotel (European plan), 50 cts. up. 



Sterling Hotel (American plan), $2.00 up. 



SPECIAL NOTICES 



By Our Business Manager 



HOTBED sash. 



The time is at hand when many are preparing 

 for winter or early spring vegetables. If you are 

 interested we would be pleased to send you a copy 

 of our booklet, " Plow to Make and Run a Hotbed." 



We are also prepared to furnish hotbed sash made 

 of cypress, the everlasting wood, either K. D. or put 

 together without or with the glass at the following 

 prices : 



One sash in flat, no glass $ .90 



Five sash in flat, no glass 4.25 



Ten sash in flat, no glass 8.00 



LEWIS BEEWARE ms 



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 TIFIC WORKMANSHIP 

 CAREFUL PACKING 

 EFFICIENT SERVICE 



Send for Annna! Catalog which will tell 

 yoD who is your nearest Distributer. 

 G. B. Lewis Company, Walertown, Wis. 



