We will requeen our 2000 colonies this year with 

 young queens bred from our best home and imported 

 Italian stock. We offer the prolific year-old queens, 

 removed from these hives, at 40 cts. each, $4.20 per 

 dozen ; |30.00 per 100. Untested queens, this year's 

 rearing, 60 cts. each; $6.50 per dozen; $50 per 100. 

 We breed for business, not looks. No disease ; de- 

 livery guaranteed. 



Spencer Apiaries, Nordhoff, Cal. 



Murray's famous North Carolina bred Italian 

 queens (red clovers and goldens), for sale again. 

 As good as the best; no foul brood known. They are 

 as good honey gatherers as can be obtained, and 

 winter as well. My improved strain is carefully se- 

 lected, and bred up from Moore's, Root's, and Davis' 

 imported stock. Select untested, doz., $9.00; one, 

 $1.00. Untested, one, 75 cts.; doz., $8.00; tested, 

 $1.25. Select tested, $1.50; extra select tested, $2.00 

 Breeders, $3.00 and $5.00. 



H. B. MuREAY, Queen-breeder, Liberty, N. C. 



MISCELLANEOUS 



White and brown ferrets. Stamp for description 

 and prices. Je\^ell's Ferret Kennels, Spencer, O. 



For Sale. — 20 H. P. four-cylinder Franklin road- 

 ster, $150. William N. Miller, Dodgeville, Wis. 



HELP WANTED 



Wanted. — Assistant in apiary. State age, experi- 

 ence, wages, etc. W. D. Wright, Altamont, N. Y. 



Wanted at once, help in our apiaries. Give wages 

 wanted; also age and experience, first letter. The 

 Rocky Mountain Bee Co., Box B, Forsyth, Mont. 



POULTRY 



Buff Orpingtons, Buff Leghorns, Anconas. 



Marle W. Wemmer, Jacksonville, Ohio. 



Sicilian Buttercups. Best of all. Eggs for hatch- 

 ing. Mating list free. D. S. Durall, Hurdland, Mo. 



Our best Fishel strain White Rocks; 15 eggs, 

 $2.00. Free and safe delivery insured by parcel post. 

 B. T. Bosserman Williamstown, Ohio. 



Sicilian Buttercups. The most persistent layers 

 and non-sitting variety. Eggs, $1.50 and $3.00 per 

 15. Walter M. Adema, Berlin, Mich. 



S. C. Brown Leghorns, day-old chicks, $3 per 25 : 

 $11 per 100; stock and eggs, none better. Booklet 

 free. H. M. Mover, Rt. 2, Bechtelsville, Pa. 



S. C. White Leghorns of quality, prolific layers of 

 large snow-white eggs; 15, $1.50". Valley City 



Poultry Farm, Rt. 12, Grand Rapids, Mich. 



Eggs that hatch big strong chicks from I. R. ducks, 

 Houdans, Leghorns, Wyandottes, Minorcas, White 

 Games, Orpingtons, $1.50 per 15; $2.75 per 30; 

 $4.00 per 45. Mating list. 



Brookside Farm, Trimble, Ohio. 



For Sale.- — Eggs for hatching from my prize-win- 

 ning strain of Rose Comb Brown Leghorns — the best 

 layers I ever owned, and I have tried them all. They 

 are beauties, too. Per setting of 15, $1.00. Satisfac- 

 tion guaranteed. 



W. O. ROUDABUSH, Hagerstown, Md. 



Eggs from prize-winning single-comb Buff Or- 

 pingtons — 2 special pens ; Martz and Rogers strain, 

 $3.50 per 15; utility flock, free range, $1.25 per 

 15; $5.50 per 100. Also eggs from fawn and white 

 Indian Runner ducks, scoring up to 94% ; $1.50 

 per 18 ; $4.50 per 50. James McKendrick, 



Glenlussa Farm, Ernie, Iowa. 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



INDIAN RUNNER DUCKS 



True Fawn and White Indian Runner ducks. 

 Handsome and hardy, and the best of layers. I can 

 start you with the best. Eggs, $1.00 per 11. 



H. C. Lee, Box 254, Brooksville, Ky. 



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

 from Spencer flock, California. Grandest strain on 

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

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

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

 you 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, Conn. 



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 nothern-bred and hardy ; five yards wintered 

 on summer stands in 1908 and 1909 without a 

 single loss. For prices, send for circular. 



Quirin-the-queen-breeder, Bellevue, Ohio. 



SPECIAL NOTICES 



a. I. root 



guide to sex instruction. 



The above is the title of another beautiful and 

 exceedingly useful book for the family, by Prof. T. 

 W. Shannon. In our issue for June 1, 1912, I gave 

 a little notice of one of his small books — " How to 

 Tell the Story of Life." Prof. Shannon's lifework is 

 along this line. He has given the world something 

 like half a dozen books on this matter of teaching 

 the children, and warning them against the dangers 

 that beset early manhood and womanhood along this 

 line. The most of his books have been small ones, 

 selling for from 15 to 25 cents. The new work, just 

 out (1913), has 266 pages, beautifully printed on 

 fine heavy paper, and is illustrated with some of the 

 finest engravings that can be produced at the present 

 time. I have given it a hasty review ; and, no matter 

 where I happen to open the book, I involuntarily 

 thank God for giving to the world a man of such 

 wisdom and good judgment as Prof. Shannon, to 

 talk to the people of this presnt age. 



It is some years since our friend took up this 

 matter of sexual matters in the home; and the con- 

 viction forces itself on me that he has been in touch 

 and consultation with the best and wisest humani- 

 tarians of the present day. I have repeatedly called 

 attention to the fact that, while we are giving the 

 greatest attention just now to improvements in grow- 

 ing corn and potatoes, horses and cattle, not to neg- 

 lect poultry, until just recently but very little atten- 

 tion has been given, comparatively, to growing better 

 boys and girls than the world ever saw before. When 

 I say better 1 do not refer entirely to physical im- 

 provement. Just now it begins to dawn on the in- 

 telligence of the world the importance of encourag- 

 ing purity, righteousness, and godliness, and dis- 

 couraging crime and criminals. 'The Men's Brother- 

 hood of our Congregational Church have just taken 

 up this matter; and a Y. M. C. A. man of excellent 

 authority told us last Sunday that two-thirds of the 

 blind people in the United States need not have been 

 " born blind," and that the blind babies that are com- 

 ing into the world are the direct result of ignorance 

 and crime along the lines that Prof. Shannon takes 

 up. 



The price of this book is $1.50, and it can be had 

 of the S. A. Mullikin Co., Marietta, Ohio. 



