For Sale. — 35 colonies of our strain of Italian 

 bees in 8-frame painted hives ; Hoffman frames, 

 wired; new combs; $5.00 per colony at yard, in- 

 cluding queens. Bargain. 



DooLiTTLE & CIjARK, Marietta, N. Y. 



For Sale. — 800 colonies of Italian bees, more or 

 less, situated in five yards ; all in good condition, on 

 this beautiful island of Jamaica, a land of perpet- 

 ual sunshine ; flowers nearly the whole year round ; 

 good investment for a practical up-to-date beekeeper 

 to take hold of now. Write for further particulars 

 to David Marchalleck, 



Morant Bay, Jamaica, 



Golden Italian queens that are golden to the tip, 

 that will produce golden workers, hardy, and honey- 

 gatherers, that I have worked 15 years to produce, 

 and which will please all who try them. My mating 

 should run up to 90 per cent pure or better. Queens 

 from $1.00 to $20.00. Send for booklet. No orders 

 booked by return mail before August 1. 



I will guarantee to deliver no more queens from 

 this date. I am booked full. Those who have or- 

 dered queens will have to wait until I can fill the 

 order or request their monev back. 

 Geo. M. Steele, 30 S. 40th St., Philadelphia, Pa. 



For Sale. — North Carolina bred Italian queens, 

 bred up for business ; none better for honey-gather- 

 ing; good recommendations coming in almost every 

 day. I have Root's and Moore's strain, Davis', 

 Quirin's, Laws', and choice imported breeders, to 

 get my fine honey-gathering strain from. I breed 

 all queens in full two-story colonies running over 

 with bees at all times. I don't keep any thing but 

 the red clover and the goldens in my yards. Try 

 them and see for yourself. Untested, 75 cts. ; doz!, 

 $7.00; tested, $1.25; select tested, $1.50; extra se- 

 lect tested, $2.00; select breeders, $3.00; extra se- 

 lect, $5.00. H. B. Mureav, Liberty, N. C. 



WANTS AND EXCHANGES 



Wanted. — To exchange Root bee supplies, either 

 for money or honey. Catalog. 



E. W. Peiece, Zanesvijle, Ohio. 



AVanted. — To exchange 190 acres and 30-room 

 hotel for b. es and supplies of honey. 



Ernest W. Fox", Clint, Texas. 



Wanted. — To exchange Langstroth and Heddon 

 hives for White Rocks or shotgun. 



F. R. Davenport, Rt. 7, Kalamazoo, Mich. 



REAL ESTATE 



Wanted. — To rent an apiary of from 200 to 300 

 colonies for the season of 1913. For particulars ad- 

 dress Vern O. Derby, Bx. 16, Wileyville, W. Va. 



Sale, or five-year lease, 160-acre farm, twelve 

 acres cultivated; the rest heavy timber; bees, cows, 

 cannery. Full information on application. 



Alfred Wallace, Mt. Ada, Ark. 



A beekeeper, a Hollander, wants to buy an apiary 

 with healthy Italian stock, after having worked the 

 season of 1913 with the owner on salary or on 

 shares. Correspondence invited. 



G. H. van den Berg, Mousey, N. Y. 



For Sale. — Bee and chicken ranch; 85 colonies 

 bees, 1 cow, 1 horse, buggy and spring wagon, 400 

 chickens, and all fixtures to run the busine^ss. For 

 rent. — A well improved 5 acres adjoining city limits 

 of Des Moines. Milo Smith, Berwick, Iowa. 



Wanted. — Beeman for next three months. State 

 particulars. P. B. Cavanagh, Hebron, Ind. 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



BEEKEEPERS' 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-yellow Italian queens for 1912; 

 befiutiful, hustling, gentle workers. Send for price 

 list to E. E. Lawrence, Doniphan, Mo. 



Queens. — Improved red-clover Italians, bred for 

 biifiuess; 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, 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-THE-QUEEN-BREEDER, Bellevue, O. 



SPECIAL NOTICES 



Bv Our Business Alanagkb 



QUEENS. 



This is the height of the breeding season with us, 

 and we are prepared now to give exceptionally good 

 service on orders for queens. Quantity orders filled 

 at any time and for any number. All orders filled 

 with the unexcelled Root strain. Queens reared 

 from the best breeding stock, and mated in our own 

 yards, where we carefully control drone production, 

 insuring pure matings of young queens. Untested 

 queens, $1.00 each; a discount of five per cent in 

 lots of 12 to 26; ten per cent on lots of 25 to 50; 

 $75.00 for 100. Two hundred for $140.00. Three 

 hundred for $180.00. Safe delivery guaranteed in 

 the United States and Canada. 



SPECIAL NOTICES 



A. I. Root 



POTATOES AND potato GBOV.'ING ALL OVER THE 

 WORLD. 



I have just been made happy by receiving a great 

 big potalo-book of over 500 pages and 100 beautiful 

 half-tone illustrations. It comes from the well- 

 known publishers, Doubleday, Page & Co., of New 

 York. On the first flyleaf I read, "A. I. Root, Esq., 

 compliments of E. H. Grubb and W. A. Guildford." 

 This Mr. Grubb conducted the first potato-instruction 

 train in America, and finally the United States De- 

 partment of Agriculture authorized Mr. Grubb to 

 visit Europe. Here is what our Secretary of Agri- 

 culture says in regard to it : 



To whom it may concern: — Mr. Eugene H. Grubb, 

 of Colorado, has made a very thorough and exten- 

 sive examination into the growing of potatoes in 

 this country and in European countries. He has ac- 

 cumulated much valuable data that ought to be in 

 possession of every farmer in the country. I thor- 

 oughly approve of his work, and regret that the law 

 of Congress confines me to the publication of articles 

 of 100 pages, and recommend that he put it upon 

 the market as a private enterprise so that it may be 

 obtained by every potato-grower in the land. 



When Mr. Grubb arranged to go to Europe he was 

 aut)iorized by this Department to provide us with 

 data to the extent in which we could use it, and for 

 that purpose was commissioned by the Department. 

 We should be glad now to take as much of his man- 

 uscript as would make 100 pages, but all that is 

 valuable can not be crowded into such. 



James Wilson, Sec. 



