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REAL ESTATE 



For Sale. — 40 improved lots with house, bearing 

 orchard, and good well, in Elk City, Okla. 



Rev. F. W. Knappe, Alta Vista, la. 



For Sale. — 3% acres, good buildings, 60 colonies 

 bees, no disease; splendid territory; investigate at 

 once; near St. Louis. * H. Stock, 



Augusta, St. Charles Co., Mo. 



For Sale. — A fruit, bee, and poultry farm of 13 

 acres, % mile from depot of Grant City, Worth Co., 

 Mo. Good buildings, caves, etc. Price $5000. For 

 pafticulars write J. G. Allen, Grant City, Mo. 



Home of 10 acres, unlimited bee and poultry 

 range — good market; healthiest locality in Texas; 

 $3000. If you mean business, apply to 



A. F. Z., Box 115, Llano, Texas. 



For Sale. — 50 acres; 40 tillable; level, free of 



stone ; good for corn, potatoes, gardening, poultry ; 



7-room house, good barn with silo. Convenient to 



New York, Boston, by trolley or boat. Price $2600. 



E. P. Robinson, Packer, Conn. 



A well-established bee business, full equipment 

 for comb or extracted, with 49 acres of land, good 

 improvements, a fine basswood grove, near town and 

 school; 250 colonies of excellent Italian bees; can 

 give time on part. No disease. Only those who mean 

 business need write. E. S. Miles, Dunlap, Iowa. 



Fertile Virginia farm lands, $15.00 per acre and 

 up. Easy payments. We will mail vou our beautiful 

 illustrated magazine one year free if you will send 

 names of two friends who are interested in Virginia. 



F. H. LaBaume, Agr'l Agent Norfolk & Western 

 Ry., N. & W., Bldg., Room 73, Roanoke, Va. 



POULTRY 



Sicilian Buttercups. " Quality, not quantity," our 

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



Walter M. Adema, Berlin, Mich. 



Buttercups and Kellerstraus Orpingtons at bar- 

 gain prices if taken soon. 



CbAUD Irons, Linesville, Pa. 



For Sale. — S. C. Rhode Island Red, eggs and 

 chicks; chicks, $10 to $25 per 100. Eggs, $5.00 to 

 $12.50 per 100. Satisfaction guaranteed. 



C. H. Zurburg, Topeka, 111. 



Standard-bred heavy-laying Barred Rocks, S. C. 

 Rhode Island Reds ; stock of highest quality for sale. 

 Send for catalog. Do it now. 



Crystal Spring Farm, Rt. 3, Lititz, Pa. 



Barred Rocks, Aristocrat Strain. Winners at all 

 leading shows, both meetings; 200 fine pullets and 

 250 fine cockerels. These cockerels will improve 

 your flock tenfold the first season. 



W. G. GiLMORE, Farmland, Ind. 



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. 



Baby Chicks. — Our fifth year of successful hatch- 

 ing. We ship safely any distance. We supply from 

 best-known laying strains S. C. White Leghorn, Buflf 

 Orpingtons, White Plymouth Rock, and Barred Rock 

 chicks. Remember, we send you only strong vigorous 

 chicks that ought to live and grow, and will if given 

 the proper care. We send no culls. We include 

 enough extra to give the full count on arrival. 

 Prices: 25 or over, 12 ^/^ cents; less than 25, 15 

 cents. You must get the orders to us early if you 

 want our chicks. We have never been able to supply 

 the demand. Ambrose & Knight, 



The Poultry People, Dept. G, Urbana, O. 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



The famous Dumaresq Buttercups. Known all 

 over the country. Winners of fourteen ribbons dur- 

 ing the last three years, including Appalachian Ex- 

 position; first at Baltimore's great show this year. 

 My patrons won Rochester and other shows. Have 

 filled nearly a thousand orders. Send fowls and eggs 

 to Cuba, Canada, and California, with safety, and 

 report good hatches. Testimonial pullets laying in 

 124 days. Orders now booked. Send for circular. 



Address Mrs. J. S. Dumaresq. 



Cato's Hall, Rt. 5, Easton, Maryland. 



Vice-president American Buttercup Club. 



INDIAN RUNNER DUCKS 



Snow-white Indian runner ducks; handsome and 

 hardy ; Fishel strain direct. 



F. J. Armstrong, Nevada, Ohio. 



Select thoroughbred Indian Runner ducks, white 

 and fawn. Eggs, $1.00 per dozen; $7.00 per 100. 

 J. C. Wheeler, Oak Park, 111. 



Fawn and white Indian Runner duck eggs, $1.00 

 per 11; $7.00 per 100. Day-old ducklings, 25 cts. 

 each. Mailing list free. 



Kent Jennings, Mt. Gilead, O. 



For Sale. — Pure White Indian Runner ducks, 

 drakes, and eggs. Pure white eggs guaranteed, from 

 duck laying 110 eggs in 120 days. Free copy of 

 " The Indian Runner Duck Book " by Valentine 

 with each order. Applecropt, South Manchester, Ct. 



Pure-white I. R. ducks, foundation stock direct 

 from Spencer flock, California. Grandest strain on 

 earth. Lay large, pure-white eggs. American stand- 

 ard Fawn and White I. R. ducks. Grand breeding 

 stock for sale. Write me your wants. I will start 

 vou with the best. Satisfaction guaranteed. 



C. O. Yost, Box D, Rt. 4, Winchester, Ind. 



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 noTthern-bred and hardy ; five yards winter- 

 ed on summer stands in 1908 and 1909 without a 

 single loss. For prices, send for circular. 



Quirin-the-Queen-Breeder, Bellevue, Ohio. 



Convention Notices 



The annual meeting of the Kansas State Beekeep- 

 ers' Association will be held in the Commercial Club 

 rooms at Topeka, Feb. 4, 5. We want to see a large 

 number of beekeepers present. The meetings will 

 close with a banquet Tuesday evening, Feb. 5. 



Topeka, Kans., Jan. 15. O. A. Keene. 



The Eastern Illinois fourth annual beekeepers' 

 convention will be held in St. Anne, 111., Feb. 4 and 

 5, with an evening session on the 4th. Several prom- 

 inent beemen have promised to be present, and the 

 meeting promises to be more than usually interest- 

 ing. An important feature of its program will be an 



