Mar. 1. 1912 



Bees and Queens 



Fob Sai^e.— Fifty colonies of Italian bees. 



Effie F. May, Grove Hill, Va. 



FOH Sale.— High-grade bees, queens, supplies, 

 and pure-blooded poultry and eggs. 



A. M. Applegate, Reynoldsville, Pa. 



Choice Italian queens, delivery beginning April 

 15. Untested, 75 cts.; tested.-Sl.OO. Ten years' expe- 

 rience in queen-rearing. Send your orders now. 

 F. Hughes, Gillett, Ark. 



Queens. — Motfs strain of Italians andCarnlolans. 

 Ten-page list free. Plans for introducing Queens. 

 15 cts.: How to Increase, 15 cts.; both, 25 cts. 



E. E. MoTT, Glenwood, Mich. 



If our bees winter as usual, we will sell 50 to 300 

 colonies, eight-frame hives, March to May. We 

 are not selling out. E. F. Atwater. 



Box 235, Meridian, Idaho. 



Colonies of Italian bees in L. hives, 10-fr., built on 

 full brood-frames, wired, body and shallow super, 

 redwood dovetailed, three coats white sheeted lids; 

 each neat, modern, and full of stores— any time. 

 Jos. Wallrath, Antioch, Cal. 



If you wish the best of untested three-banded 

 Italian queens send us your orders — 75 cents each, 

 88.00 per dozen. Safe arrival and satisfaction. No 

 order too small nor too large to receive our prompt 

 attention. The Golden Rule Bee Co., 



Rt. 1, Box 103, Riverside, Cal. 



FoK Sale.— Early "Italian " (Frofalcon) queens- 

 March delivery, untested. 11.30 each; April, I1.25- 

 Tested queens 50 cts. additional; select tested, Sl.OO 

 extra. John C. Frohuger, 



257, 259 Market St., San Francisco. Cal. 



Berkeley, Cal. 



Goldens that are golden, gentle, hardy, and 

 hustlers. Golden to-tip queens, mated, 81.00; select 

 mated, §1.50; select tested, 83.00 to 85.00. All mis- 

 mated 81.50 queens replaced. Send for booklet. 

 Nuclei and full colonies. Geo. M. Steele. 



30 South 40th St., Philadelphia, Pa. 



For Sale. — Moore's strain and golden Italian 

 queens, untested. 11.00; six. 85.00: twelve, 89.00. Car- 

 niolan, Banat, and Caucasian queens, select, 81.25 ; 

 six, 86.00; twelve, 810.00. Tested, any kind, 81.50; six, 

 88.00. Choice breeders, 83.00. Circular free. 



W. II. Rails, Orange, Cal. 



Real Estate 



For Sale. — Ten acres of irrigated land and 425 

 colonies of Italian bees. L. D. Smith, Mesa, Ariz. 



Wanted.— House, some land, 50 or more colonies 

 bees. Davenport, 2300 Lunt Ave., Chicago, lil. 



For Sale.— a good four-room house and barn on 

 lour lots in the city of Stanfield, Ore.: also 150 colo- 

 nies of bees in a good locality for comb honey. 



Address T. J. Barringer, Stanfield, Ore. 



Virginia apple orchards pay big profits. 8350 on 

 long time and easy payments buys a ten-acre ap- 

 ple-orchard tract in the beautiful Shenandoah Val- 

 ley of Virginia. Other lands, 815 per acre and up. 

 Write for beautiful booklet and excursion rates. 

 F. H. La Baume, 



Ag'l Agent N, & W. R'y, Box 4015, Roanoke, Va. 



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Fob Sale.— Cocoa estate, St. Lucia, West Indies : 

 50 acres land; 20 acres in full bearing; 20 acres young 

 trees. Present average crop, with poor care, seven 

 tons cured cocoa, value 12 cts. per lb. in New York; 

 capable of trebling crop within few years: rich soil: 

 cheap labor (one shilling per day); low freights; no 

 land tax; healthy climate; honey-yield averages 70 

 lbs. exracted per hive — value 6 cts. Vendors (Eng- 

 lish) with 25 years' cocoa experience would direct 

 purchaser first year if required. Further particu- 

 lars from Geo. .S. Hudson, St. Lucia, B. W. I. 



Position Wanted 



Wanted. — By a poultryman a position as bee- 

 keeper; have had lour years' experience in taking 

 care of bees. E. A. Schmalle. 



444 West Fifth St., Elmira, N. Y. 



Wanted. — Commercial apple-orchard. Must be 

 a good proposition. Three years' experience in 

 Washington and Idaho; also large apiaries, twenty 

 years' experience. J. C. Hindman, Grove City, Pa. 



Help Wanted 



Wanted. — An experienced beekeeper to take 

 charge of an apiary of 150 colonies to be run for 

 comb honey. Address, stating wages wanted, 



E. A. Baldwin, 

 No. 62fi North Delaware St., Independence, Mo. 



Wanted.— Apiarist who has had experience, and 

 knows how to raise good queens cheaply — who can 

 do any work with bees alone, yet follow instruc- 

 tions when given. Give reference. State wages 

 wanted first letter. H. C. Ahlers, West Bend, Wis. 



Indian Runner Ducks 



Indian Runner duck eggs, 15 for 81.00. 



J. F. Michael, Winchester, Ind. 



Fawn and white Indian Runner duck eggs, 81.00 

 per 11; 87.00 per 100. Day-old ducklings, 25 cts. each. 

 Mating-list free. Kent Jennings, Mt. Gilead, O. 



Golden-laced Wyandottes and Indian Runner 

 ducks. Blue-blooded egg-producers. Eggs, 15, 81.50. 

 Dr. D. Oscar Mead, Pinckneyville. 111. 



Am booking orders for White Indian Runner 



duck eggs — true I. R. type, and white; no sports; 



handsome and hardy. Also eggs from both light 



fawn and penciled strains. State which you want. 



F. J. Armstrong, Nevada, O. 



Orders for eggs that will hatch, at 10 cts. each, for 

 Indian Runner ducks, white and fawn; also for 

 Buff Rock chickens; botli standard stock, and from 

 good laying strains. Write; want to tell you more 

 about them, or place your order now. 



J. Rudy Roebuck, Dalton, Ohio. 



I have a flock of most beautiful Indian Runner 

 ducks, correctly mated, which have proven be- 

 yond a doubt to be the twentieth-century egg-ma- 

 chines. I will book orders from now on. and ship 

 when so ordered, 13 pure-white eggs for 81.00. Sat- 

 isfaction guaranteed or money refunded. This ad- 

 vertisement will be lived up to. to the letter. 



Robert Bird, Rt. 2, Pinckneyville, Ills. 



