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Pigeons and Pet Stock 



Pigeons! Pigeons! — Thousands in all leading va- 

 rieties at lowest prices. Squab-breeding stock our 

 specialty. Seventeen years' experience. Large il- 

 lustrated matter free. 



Pkovidence Squab Co., Providence, R. I. 



Bee-keepers' Directory 



Nutmeg Italian queens, after June 1, $1.00. Circu- 

 lar. A. W. Yates. 3 Chapman St., Hartford, Ct. 



Bees, queens, supplies, and export; free school. 

 W. C. MORRIS, 74 Cortlandt St., New York. 



Well-bred bees and queens. Hives and supplies. 

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



For bee-smoker and honey-knife circular send a 

 card to T. F. Bingham, Alma, Mich. 



Improved golden-yellow Italian queens for 1912; 

 beautiful, hustling, gentle workers. Send for price 

 list to 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 sat- 

 isfaction guaranteed. H. C. Clemons, Boyd, Ky. 



QuiRiN's famous improved Italian queens, nu- 

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

 Our stock is northern-bred and hardy; live yards 

 wintered on summer stands in 1908 and 1909 with- 

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



Quirin-the-Queen-breedbr, Bellevue, O. 



Convention Notices. 



The Washington State Bee-keepers' Association 

 will hold its annual meeting at the court-hou.se. 

 North Yakima, Feb. 7 and 8,- 1912. Everybody is in- 

 vited, whether member or bee-keeper. 



John F. Miller, Sec, Toppenish, Wash. 



Jesse W. Thornton, Pres. 



The New York State Bee-keepers' Association 

 will hold its next annual meeting on the 30th and 

 31st of January, at .Syracuse, in the county court- 

 house. Every bee-keeper is invited to be present, 

 for it is going to be a bee-keepers' meeting such as 

 they never attended before. 



Dr. C. G. Schamu, Sec, Liverpool, N. Y. 



The South Dakota Bee-keepers' Association will 

 meet at Auditorium, Sioux Falls, S. D., January 18 

 and 19, 1912. The following is the program. 



OPENING session, JANUARY 18, 1 : 30 P.M. 



Song by Rhoda Gary and May Kirk. 



Bees on the Farm, by Geo. Wester. 



What Size of Section is best for Shipping? W. P. 

 Southworth. 



What Size of Hive and Section shall we Adopt? 

 L. A. Syverud. 



Question-box. 



7:30 P.M. 



President's Annual Address, R. A. Morgan. 

 Election of Officers. 

 Wintering Bees, Rhoda Gary. 

 Question-box. 



JANUARY 19, 9 A.M. 



Sweet Glover as a Honey-plant, R. A. Morgan. 

 Foul-brood Law— is it O. K.? Henry Ginsbach. 

 Question-box. 



L. A. Syverud, Secretary. 



The thirty-third annual convention of the Wis- 

 consin State Bee-keepers' Association will meet in 

 the Supervisors' room at the court-house, Madison, 

 Wisconsin, February 20 and 21, beginning at 10:00 

 A.M. Tuesday. 



The last convention provided for premiums of $5, 

 13, 12, and $1 respectively for the four best papers, 

 each paper to occupy not less than five minutes 

 nor more than ten minutes. This is open to all 



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members, and all papers must be handed to the 

 secretary not later than the first day of the conven- 

 tion, otherwise they will not be admitted for con- 

 test. The main feature of our conventions has al- 

 ways been the question-box, .and we want you to 

 come prepared with questions; or if you can not 

 come, send your questions to the secretary, and 

 you will hear of them through the ijrinted proceed- 

 ings. George W. York, President, and N. E. France, 

 Manager and Treasurer of the National Associa- 

 tion, will attend tliis meeting, and both have prom- 

 ised just what we may expect from them. 



Headquarters of the bee-keepers is usually the 

 Simons Hotel — a clean, moderate-priced house. To 

 secure a room it will be necessary to write a week 

 ahead of time, and enclose $1.00 in your letter. 



We invite every member to renew his member- 

 ship. We invite every bee-keeper to become a 

 member. 



Annual dues for the Wisconsin State and Nation- 

 al, SI. 00 for both, or you may become a member of 

 the Wisconsin State alone by sending 50 cents to 

 the secretary. Be sure to let us hear from you, to- 

 gether with your questions and paper, and, if pos- 

 sible, attend the convention. 



Augusta, Wis., January 1, 1912. 



Catalogs Received 



The Brown Fence and Wire Co., Cleveland, Ohio, 

 send us a 64-page catalog of woven-wire farm, gar- 

 den, and poultry fences and gates. " Brown pays 

 the freight." Send lor his catalog. 



W. N. Scarff, New Carlisle, Ohio, issues a 40-page 

 catalog of fruit and farm seeds. Special 85.00 offers 

 on stock for planting a model orchard; also same 

 offer for fruit-garden. Read his offer on World's 

 Prize field corn. 



A. T. Cook, Hyde Park, N. Y., sends out a large 

 annual catalog of "money-saving seeds " for 1912. 

 A specialty is the Six Weeks potato. 



Madary Supply House. 733Aliso St., Los Angeles, 

 Gal. The first bee-supply catalog to reach our office 

 this year is from California — 36 pages, full of de- 

 scriptions, illustrations, and prices of goods for 

 bee-keepers. Send for it. 



W. F. Allen, Salisbury, Md., sends out a 50-page 

 catalog of strawberry-plants and other small fruit. 

 Early shipments when desired. See cover page. 



Peter Henderson & Co., 35 Cortlandt St., New 

 York, publish a manual of 200 large pages of every 

 thing for the garden. No gardener should be with- 

 out this. 



Henry A. Dreer, 714 Chestnut St., Philadelphia, 

 Pa.— Dreer's Garden Book, 288 pages, 74th edition— 

 a valuable addition to every gardener's library. 



W. Atlee Burpee, Philadelphia, Pa., sends out a 

 catalog of 178 pages, entitled "The Plain Truth 

 About the Best Seeds." Lovers of sweet peas will 

 be especially interested in this catalog. 



Chas. Navlet Co., San Jos^, Gal., send out a cata- 

 log of 116 pages entitled " 1912 Planters' Guide; " a 

 specialty of White American Beauty roses, includ- 

 ing nursery stock, seeds, and plants. We imagine 

 our California and other Western readers would be 

 profited by sending for this catalog. 



J. Steckler Seed Co., Ltd., New Orleans, La., issue 

 a well-illustrated catalog of 212 pages, including 

 their Almanac and Garden Manual, especially 

 adapted to the Southern States. We think our 

 Southern readers will be particularly interested in 

 this. Not only do they list a well-assorted line of 

 seeds, but they have a good many specialties for 

 the farm and garden. 



Our subscribers will confer a favor on us by men- 

 tioning Gleanings In Bee Calture when sending for 

 catalogs. 



Books and Magazines. 



still time to get the COMPANION FOR |1.75. 



The publishers of The Youth's Companion an- 

 nounce that they will accept yearly subscriptions 

 at $1.75 up to the end of March. The new rate of 

 $2.00 will go into effect promptly on April 1. The 

 large number whose subscriptions run over into 

 the early weeks of the year, as well as those who 

 were unable to send in new subscriptions before 

 January 1, will have this opportunity to get The 

 Companion for another fifty-two weeks at the old 



