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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. Murray, Queen-breeder, Liberty, N. C. 



For Sale. — 50 colonies of Italian bees; 60 new 

 ten-frame hives and 300 frames, new and wired; 

 one two-frame extractor ; one extracting-house and 

 fixtures, together with 250 acres of land, 100 or 

 more open for cultivation ; remainder is well covered 

 with mesquite, catclaw, horsemipt, and wild sun- 

 flower; in the midst of a large cotton-growing sec- 

 tion ; good well and windmill ; house and outbuild- 

 ings ; all for $50 per acre, or will sell the bees and 

 fixtures for $6 per stand. For further particulars 

 address J. B. Bowden, Fall City, Texas. 



MISCELLANEOUS 



White and brown ferrets. Stamp for description 

 and prices. Jewell's Ferret Kennels, Spencer, O. 



Fine mated homing pigeons, $1.50 a pair, or will 

 trade for bees. L. Francisco, Mosinee, Wis. 



HELP WANTED 



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. 



Wanted. — At once, assistant beekeeper. State 

 age, experience, and wages. Pour or five months' 

 employment. J. H. Stoneman, bx 264, Blackfoot, Ida. 



Wanted. — Apiarist to go to Jonesville, La., for 

 the rest of the season. Man with Southern experi- 

 ence preferred. Another man for my home yard. 

 Permanent position. 



H. C. Ahlers, Rt. 1, West Bend, Wis. 



POULTRY 



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

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



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



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 13; $4.50 per 50. James McKendrick, 



Glenlussa Farm, Ernie, Iowa. 



INDIAN RUNNER DUCKS 



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 

 you with the best. Satisfaction guaranteed. 



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



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



BEEKEEPERS' DIRECTORY 



If you need queens by return mail, send to J. W. 

 K. Shaw & Co., Loreauville, Iberia Parish, La. 



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. Laweencb, 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 winter- 

 ed 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 



ventilated shoes, etc. 



After what I said about my " corncrib shoes " 

 in Gleanings, p. 319, May 1, a lot of correspond- 

 ence has come up, and I have been advised several 

 times that similar shoes are for sale in most of the 

 shoestores in our large towns and cities. Dr. Miller 

 alludes to the matter on page 364, June 1. The 

 principal objection that I have found so far to these 

 shoes is that, when working in the garden or doing 

 other similar kinds of work, dirt or small gravel 

 is liable to get into these openings and oblige one 

 to sit down once in a while and give his shoes and 

 stockings a thorough cleaning. While walking on a 

 pavement or on any fairly good road, there is no 

 trouble of this kind. Putting on some different 

 shoes when you are working in the garden, or, bet- 

 ter still, going barefoot, makes it all right. If some 

 shoe manufacturer who makes or handles these ven- 

 tilated shoes will give us his address we will give 

 him a free advertisement, and I think it will bring 

 him a lot of trade, for there seems to be a world of 

 people who are suffering from corns and hot feet, 

 especially during hot weather, because their feet do 

 not have a chance to " breathe." I have before men- 

 tioned that our great statesman Abraham Lincoln 

 was in the habit of taking off his shoes when he sat 

 down at his desk or attended to correspondence. The 

 shoes I have mentioned came from R. T. Thomas' 

 Sons, the drygoods men of Bradentown, Fla. The 

 price was $2.50 or $3.50. I can not tell now just 

 which. In these days of parcel post some manufac- 

 turer should be able to send them by mail at a rea- 

 sonable price. 



Later. — The following has been sent me by a sub- 

 scriber. It was clipped from the Chicago Inter-Ocean: 



canal zone footwear. 



The rope-soled slippers, with cloth uppers, known 

 as Spanish alpargatas, and worn by practically all 

 the European and colored laborers in the canal zone, 

 are imported all the way from Spain in such quan- 

 tities that they can be retailed at the low price of 20 

 cents a pair. 



The European laborer wears them 12 months in 

 the year on the isthmus, and over 1,000,000 pairs 

 are sold annually by the commissary. Alpargatas are 

 durable, and have been adopted by Isthmian bathers 

 as the most convenient form of beach shoe. 



Can some of our readers tell us where these Span- 

 ish alpargatas can be had? I for one want a dozen 

 pairs at the above prices ; then when I get them 

 soiled or muddy I can throw them away and take 

 another pair. I take it they can be sent by parcel 

 post. 



