GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



BEEKEEPERS 



Your busy season is close at hand. Get wise, 

 and place your orders with the supply dealer 

 who will save you money and serve jou best 

 with Root's quality sections, frames, founda- 

 tion, smokers, extractors, etc. I can serve 

 you now without delay. My 1913 catalog tells 

 you all about these things; besides, it contains 

 a lot of information to those interested in bees. 

 Special attention given to the breeding of three- 

 banded Italian bees and queens. Catalog free. 



EARL M. NICHOLS 



Lyonsville, Massachusetts 



ATTENTION ! 



Very important to all beekeepers all over the world who 

 desire to improve their native or mixed strains of bees ! 



THK DIRECT EXPORTATION FROM CARNIOLA OF THE 

 GRAY-BAN UED ALPINE BEE. which until now was conduct- 

 ed by the Imperial Royal Agricultural Asg'n of Carniola. the 

 undersigned will, IN THE FUTURE, MANAGE ON HIS OWN 

 ACCOUNT. JOHANN STRCAR, Wittnach, 



P. O. Wocheiner Feistrilz, Upper Carniola (Krain), Austria. 



Owner of 58 Honors awarded to him at various apicultural 

 exhibitions for his achievements as a breeder of the best 

 Strain of Carniolans and producer of apicultural products, 



ALL QUEENS TAKEN FROM FULL COLONIES, AND NOT 

 OVER ONE YEAR OLD. Mailed postage free. Dead select 

 tested queens will be replaced if returned in 24 hours after 

 arrival, except when the.y arrive in such a state in South 

 America or Australia. Dear! select untested queens can not be 

 replaced. Send remittance per Intern. Money Order with 

 order. Safe arrival of nuclei and hives not gpuarantced. Or- 

 ders of this kind must be accompanied by freisrht expenses. 

 The safest transport of stock is in Carniolan box hives. After 

 arrival or later the combs can be cut out to fit any frame. 

 Prices of select tested queens: March, April, May, $6.00; June, 

 July, Aug-., Sept., Oct., $3.50. Select untested queens: June, 

 July, Aug., $2.00. Carniolan box- hivex with 4 to 5 lbs. of bees, 

 select tested queen, brood, combs, honey. $7.00, on board R. R. 

 station Wocheiner Feistritz. fi'rite English for complete Price 

 List and new Booklet (which will be mailed postage free) 

 under aboce add) ess. 



FAMOUS QUEENS . . . DIRECT FROM ITALY 



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__^^a^^ honcy-gatlicrers. Universal Exposition. St. Louis, 



(?3SHP Mo , 1904. the highest award. . . Extra breeding 



queen. S:'.00; selected. $2 00: fertilized. $1..50. Write 



ANTHONY BIACGI, Pedevilla near Bellinzona, Italy 



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 Send for illustrated circular. Price §.l.00 delivered 

 anywhere in U. S. 



The Colorado Honey Producers' Assn., Denver, Colo. 



The A B C of Bee Culture 



The only cyclopedia on bees, 7,5ii pages, fully 

 illustrated. Every phase of the subject fully 

 treated by experts. Price $-2.00 postpaid; money 

 refunded if unsatisfactory. 



THE A, I. ROOT CO., Medina, Ohio. 



SPECIAL NOTICES 



TO ADVERTISERS OF BEES AND QUEENS. 



The following is addressed mainly to present or 

 prospective advertisers of Gleanings in Bee Cul- 

 ture who seek customers among the readers of our 

 columns ; and while it is addressed especially to 

 those who wish to advertise bees or queens, it may 

 apply in some respects to other advertisers as well. 

 It is prepared in this form so that any one who re- 

 ceives it may understand that its application is gen- 

 eral, and that he alone is not made the subject of 

 special requirements or conditions not required or 

 imposed on others. 



The supplying of queen-bees, and to a less extent 

 bees in colonies or nuclei or pound packages, is at- 

 tended with a good many difficulties not readily un- 

 derstood by those who have not actually had one or 

 more seasons' experience in this trade. To explain 

 this, let us relate from otir own experience as queen- 

 breeders, and from the correspondence which reaches 

 us both from our advertising friends and from sub- 

 scribers to Gleanings who have ordered bees and 

 queens from our advertisers or elsewhere. 



At the beginning of a season a queen-breeder may 

 have on hand a fairly good stock of queens: but 

 having been reared very late the previous fall he 

 has not had time to test. Another breeder may have 

 on hand a quantity of tested queens, or perhans a 

 pretty liberal proportion of select tested or a number 

 of good breeding queens, worth anywhere from 

 $5.00 to $10.00. Now, unless the advertiser is very 

 explicit as to the stock on hand, and as to the prob- 

 able dates when he will be able to begin deliveries, 

 customers may be disappointed greatly in not being 

 able to get the grade of queen wanted from a certain 

 advertiser or on the date expected, and too much 

 care can not be taken to make the advertising clear 

 and explicit. A number of new advertisers every 

 year get into serious difficulty because their facilities 

 for raising queens being limited, and the price quot- 

 ed too low for safety, they receive orders early in 

 the season which they expect to be able to fill short- 

 ly, and accept the money for the same, hoping to 

 supply the stock within a reasonable time. Unfavor- 

 able weather may ensue, and they find themselves 

 unable to fulfill their plans, and their customers are 

 indignant and demand their money returned. A 

 good deal of this trouble, which often assumes pretty 

 serious aspects, could be avoided by more care in 

 the wordiag of the advertisements, occasionally by 

 taking more space. We therefore caution our ad- 

 vertisers to be explicit in their promises as to 

 grades and quantities, and dates when deliveries 

 can be made; and we caution our readers to under- 

 stand these things before placing orders. It is 

 amazing to learn that beekeepers will order queens 

 from points one or two thousand or more miles 

 away in lots of fifty or a hundred or more, cash 

 with order, without knowing these things. The 

 compliment is appreciated by the publishers of 

 Gleanings, showing the confidence in which our 

 advertisers are held; but, at the same time, where 

 a small breeder will occasionally make very low 

 prices to establish himself in the trade, careful dis- 

 crimination should be made in the placing of 

 large orders between the breeder with ver- limited 

 experience or facilities, and those who have had 

 years of experience and ample facilities for han- 

 dling large orders. It would be unfair for the pub- , 

 lishers to refuse space to a small but worthy queen- 

 breeder simply because his output is very limited, 

 for he may have some very fine stock, and it may 

 be a decided advantage to those who are wanting 

 only a few queens to get them from a small breed- 

 er at a moderate price. On the other hand, among 

 the small breeders are occasionlly found those who 

 either are tmprincipled or so inexperienced that 

 they are not worthy of the confidence of our read- 

 ers ; and to make a distinction beweeii these we 

 require of all advertisers the most definite and ex- 

 plicit information in regard to their plans. "We 

 must know of every one securing space in our 

 columns how large a yard he has from which he 

 expects to raise queens ; what breeding stock he 

 has ; when he expects to begin deliveries ; and, 

 more than all this, we must have reliable informa- 

 tion as to the character of the advertiser ; whether 

 he ^nll properly take care of orders placed in his 

 hands, and promise to return promptly on request 

 funds which have been placed in his hands for 

 certain orders. Unless this information is fully sup- 

 plied we shall decline the use of our columns to any 

 one unwlling or unable to furnish it. 



