ITALIAN BEES AND QUEEN! 



In connection with and directly adjoining 

 our large manufacturing plant we have a 

 large apiary; and this is further supplemented 

 by a yard in the West- Indies and several out 

 yards near Medina. Nearly all of these are 

 devored to the rearing of high-class honey 

 queens or queens for business. In charge of 

 this department -we have a queen-breeder of 

 many years' experience, carejul and competent, 

 and one who uses the latest and best methods 

 lor producing vigorous healthy stock. None 

 but honey queens are used for breeders (usu- 

 ally imported — queens whose progeny have 

 excelled everything else in the yard). Some 

 of them are from our celebrated imported 

 red-clover mother, the bees of which will excel 

 any thing else in the yard during the time 

 that red-clover is in bloom. Then we have a 

 breeder whose bees stored 160 lbs. of surplus 

 from clover and basswood, in a yard where 

 there are already fi-50 colooies. 



On account of the intrinsic inerit of breed- 

 ing stock and the.paius we take in rearing 

 our queens, we are compelled to charge a 

 slight, advance over ruling'prices. 



PRICES OF QUEENS RE.\RED IN THE 

 A. I. ROOT COMPANY'S APIARIES. 



Untested queen $1.00 



Selected untested queens 1.25 ■ 



Tested queen 2.00 



Select tested queen 3.00 



Breeding queen 5.00 



Select breeding queen 8.00 



Extra select breeding queens one year old 10.00 



Imported Italian Queens. 



We are prepared to furnish from the best 

 breeders in Italy, imported Italian queens. 

 They are put into our own yards and tested 

 before sending out. \Ve have, onlj' two 

 grades — best and fair imported, ' and prices 

 are given in the table below: 



Best imported queens $ 5.00 



Fair imported queens 3.00 



Untested Queens. 



An untested queen is one raised from an 

 imported mother, or a Dreeding-queen whose 

 bees are e.xtra honey-gatherers. She is untest- 

 ed because she has laid only a frame or two 

 of eggs; and as these eggs or brood have not 

 hatched into young bees, we do not know 

 yet whether she will be a tested Italian or a 

 hybrid. All we guarantee in an untested 

 queen is, that she was raised from a pure 

 mother, and fertilized in an apiary where Ital- 

 ian drones largely predominate. 



Select Untested Queens. 



Wc have calls for yellow imtested queens. 

 \N'hile we do not regard them any better for 

 real business there are some who go in for 

 beauty. Their bees (for we don't know what , 

 they are yet )may not 'be any yellower than 

 those from our ordinary untested, and may 

 prove to be hybrids. 



Tested Queens. 



ihere are queens that have been iaying_ 

 a month or so, and their young bees h: 

 already emerged from their "cells. They h. 

 been in the cell long enough so that we' kn 

 their progeny are pure Italians— that is, b 

 having yellow bands, and, as a natural cor 

 quence, are gAitle. The queens are not bri; 

 yellow, but ^re usually striped with yeli 

 and black. For real business they're just 

 goc^d as 



Select Tested Queens. 



Like the t^ted, their progeny is pure; " 

 the queens ttiemselves are large and yelli 

 younq' and prolific. Their bees are gentle : 

 fineb- marked. The progeny of these quci 

 for real business will probably be no bet 

 than those from the ordinary tested. ] 

 there are those who wish beauty and uti 

 combined, and, so far as possible, we int( 

 to fill that want. 



Nuclei and Colonies of Bees. 



We are prepared to furnish one, two, e 

 three frame nuclei and fiill colonies of b 

 in eight-frame Dovetailed hives or Danzenba 

 hives. The nuclei are put up in light si 

 ping-boxes made of basswood, the sides 

 wdiich are only 3-16 inch thick, and the er 

 V2 inch. The top and bottom are covered w 

 wire cloth. This makes a very light packa 

 affords plenty of ventilation, and is stro 

 enough to stand sliippin.^ from 500 to 1 

 miles. The bees so put up almost invaria' 

 go through in good order with little or 

 loss. 



EXPRESS CHARGES ON BEES. 



The express rate on bees is 1J4 first cla 

 A one-Jrame nucleus will weigh about 7 lb 

 two-frame. 10 lbs. ; three-frame, 15 lbs. ; a f 

 colony, 40 lbs. 



WHAT CAN BE DON"E WITH OUF 

 NUCLEI. 



y\nv of our 'nuclei, even flie one-frame, w 

 make good strong colonies by fall if prope; 

 handled. The three-frame, if properly ma 

 aged, can be increased tour, five, or ev 

 ten full colonies by f.Tll if bought in t 

 spring. 



PRICES OF MCLEI. 



Ship wcig' 



1-fr. nucleus, no queen $2. 



2-fr. nucleus, ,rio queen ' 3. 



3-fr. nucleus, '.no queen 3. 



One colony or bees in S-frante hive, no 



qyeen 7. 



W'c can supply with the nuclei any of t 

 queens mentioned in the table of prices, 

 queens. When one bu.Vs an e.xtra select que 

 or any liigh-priced nueen he would do well 

 have iier come in a nucleus. This will insu 

 safe arrival and do away with the hazard 

 introducing. 



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THE A. I. ROOT CO., Medina, Ohio. 



