Apr. 15, 1912 



For Sale.— Eggs of Crystal White Orpington 

 (Kell.); beautiful white birds, winter layers, $2.00 

 per setting. Mks. Rudolph Hassler, 



Rt. 3, Bloomington, 111. 



BUTTEKCUPS.— Eggs from three pens of grand 

 birds — 15, 83.00; 30, $5.50; 100, 815.00. Satisfaction 

 guaranteed. Rivkrview Poultry Farm, 



Union City, Mich. 



White Roclis, S. C. White Orpington, Black Span- 

 ish, and Indian Runner duck eggs, at farmers' 

 prices. Circular free. 

 Golden Rule Poultry Farm, Box B, Oakwood, O. 



Baby chicks, 9 breeds. Prices from 9 cents up ; 

 100,000 chicks hatched per year. Catalog free. Over 

 6000 laying hens. Taylor's Poultry Yards, 



(Sales Dept.) Lyons, N. Y. 



For Sale.— Eggs for hatching from my prize- 

 winning 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, SI. 00. Im- 

 perial Pekin duck eggs, same price. Satisfaction 

 guaranteed. W. O. Roudabush, Hagerstown, Md. 



Stock chicks' eggs ready for delivery; standard- 

 bred heavy-laying Barred Rocks. S. C. R. I. Reds, S. 

 C. White Leghorns. A patron reports over 1500 

 eggs from 10 hens in 12 months. Catalog free. 



Crystal Spring Farm, Rt. 3, Lititz, Pa, 



Eggs from Houdans, Buff Rocks, Indian Games, 

 Silver Wyandottes, Buflf Leghorns, Rose C. B. Leg- 

 horns. Eggs $1.50 per 15; $2.75 per 30; $4.00 per 45. 

 Bronze turkey eggs, $2.00 per 9; $4.00 per 22. 



Dale Hart, Box 19, Broadwell, Ohio. 



For Sale.— Sicilian Buttercup eggs for hatching, 

 $3.00 per 13 ; $6.00 per 30, from thoroughbred stock ; 

 very handsome, very tame, very light feeders; lay 

 large white eggs; the world's champion layers. 

 Henry Woodworth, Jr., Cheboygan, Mich. 



Prize-winning S. C. R. I. Reds; thoroughbred 

 White Orpington, Barred Rocks, Indian Runner 

 ducks, fawn and white. Eggs and chicks. 



David M. Hammond, 

 Woodside Poultry-yards, Rt. 5, Cortland, N. Y, 



Bee-keepers' Directory 



Nutmeg Italian queens, leather color, after June 

 1, $1.00. A. W. Yates, Hartford, Ct. 



Well-bred bees and queens. Hives and supplies. 

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



Improved golden-yeUow 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; five yards 

 wintered on summer stands in 1908 and 1909 with- 

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



Quirin-thk-Quekn-bbkeder, Bellevue, O. 



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By Our Business Manager 



We have on hand a limited number ol fine un- 

 tested Southern-bred queens which we can dispose 

 of as select untested at 81.25 each until the present 

 stock is exhausted. This is your chance to get an 

 exceptionally good queen to build up your colony 

 for the best work this summer. Do not delay or- 

 dering, for the stock is limited. 



Convention Notices. 



The California State Beekeepers' Association will 

 commence on the first of May to*[3ublish a month- 

 ly crop and market report. We should like to ex- 

 change this report for a local report of every bee- 

 keeping organization in the United States and 

 Canada. We believe the benefit will be mutual. 

 Please address our secretary, A. B. Shaflfner, 3906 

 West First St., Los Angeles, Cal. 



The spring meeting of the Colorado State Bee- 

 keepers' Association will take place in Montrose, 

 Col., May 10th and 11th. The Montrose County Bee- 

 keepers' Association will be the host of the State 

 Association at this meeting. It is desired that 

 every beekeeper on the eastern side of the moun- 

 tains take the trip to Montrose and see this part of 

 the country. Homeseekers' rates will apply on the 

 Denver & Rio Grande from Colorado Springs, Den- 

 ver, and Pueblo. These rates are good for thirty 

 days. I would suggest that the way to go is via 

 Marshall Pass, and return by way of Grand Junc- 

 tion over Tennessee Pass. More of the country can 

 be seen this way. The western-slope beekeepers in 

 Montezuma, La Plata, Montrose, Delta, Mesa, and 

 Garfield counties are urged to turn out in full 

 force. This will be a live meeting, and you will re- 

 gret it if you do not attend. 



Wesley Foster, Sec. 



Books and Magazines. 



principles and practice of poultry culture. 



The above is the title of a book by John H. Rob- - 

 inson, editor ol Farm-Poultry. Boston, Mass. While 

 designed for classes in agricultural colleges It aims 

 to give the student a concise and complete state- 

 ment of essentials, and to provide for the teacher a 

 textbook which is easily adapted to long courses, 

 short courses, and extension courses. While omit- 

 ting nothing, it gives full scope to the teacher who 

 desires to expand the treatment of any topic. Poul- 

 try culture is treated as a branch of agriculture and 

 as a necessary permanent feature. Attention is 

 directed to the general likeness of domesticated 

 land birds, and the relations of this fact to good 

 poultry practice are emphasized. In the discus- 

 sion of such topics as feeding and breeding, the in- 

 timate association of the scientific and the practi- 

 cal in everyday work is made clear. The book is 

 elaborately yet appropriately illustrated. More 

 than 500 cuts from photographs and drawings, sys- 

 tematically arranged with reference to the text 

 and to each other, show graphically the evolution 

 of methods and systems of poultry-keeping, the de- 

 velopment and range of types of structures for 

 poultry, common appliances and the methods of 

 using them, the characteristics of the different 

 kinds, classes, breeds, and varieties of poultry, etc. 

 The general list of references includes all impor- 

 tant poultry books and bulletins. The glossary is 

 carefully compiled, and includes all words used in 

 the text in a technical sense. Though written pri- 

 marily for students, the book meets all the require- 

 ments of a general treatise on poultry culture. 



The book is published by Ginn «fe Co., Boston, 

 Mass. Price $2.50. 



