"Valentines' Italian Bee-Yard" 



ESTABLISHED 1867! 



Send for new Price-List of Imported and Home- 

 Bred Queens, Comb Foundation, Hives, Section 

 Boxes, Extractors and Bee- Keepers' Supplies. Also, 

 high-class Poultry. Queen-breeding a specialty. 

 First Premiums awarded us at St. Louis Exposition 

 for 1879, on best Italian Bees and Honey. 



VALENTINE & SON, 



1-6 CARLINVILLE, ILL. 



Winter Bee-Hive! 



91 fifi NOW IN USE. Unparalleled Success as a 

 , 1 UU winter Protector. The Cheapest Hive of- 

 fered for sale. 



Our Improved Honey Extractor $fi 00 



Wax " 3 50 



}3?~ All styles of Sections very low. 

 Write your name on a postal card and address W. 

 B. H. Manufactory, Kendallville, Ind., and you will 

 receive valuable information. 1-tf 



Friends, if you are in any way interested in 



BEES OR HONEY 



We will with pleasure send you a sample copy of our 



Monthly Gleanings in Bee-Culture, 



with a descriptive price-list of the latest improve- 

 ments in Hives, Honey Extractors, Artificial 

 Comb, Section Honey Boxes, all books and 

 journals, and everything pertaining to Bee Culture. 

 Nothiny patented. Simply send your address on a 

 postal card, written plainly, to A. I. Root, Medina, O. 



Coleraine, Franklin Co., Mass. 

 Thirteen years experience in propagating Queens, 

 direct from the best district in Italy. Persons pur- 

 chasing 



QUEENS or SWARMS, 



from me will get what they bargain for. 

 circulars. 



Send for 

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BARNES' PATENT 



Foot-Power Machinery 



CIRCULAR and 



SCROLL SAWS 



Hand, Circular Rip Saws for gen- 

 eral heavy and light ripping. 

 Lathes, &c. These machines are 

 especially adapted to Hive 

 Making. It will pay every bee- 

 keeper to send for our 48 page 

 Illustrated Catalogue. 



W. F. & JOHN BARNES, 

 Rockford, Winnebago Co., 111. 



junely 



Italian Queen Bees 



FOR, 1879. 



I shall breed Italian Queens for the coming season, 

 from imported mothers of undoubted purity. Safe 

 arrival and purity guaranteed in every shipment. 

 Prices very low. Circulars sent free. Address, 



D. P. MYERS, 

 aplyl West Salem, Wayne Co., Ohio. 



For 75 Cents, 



I will send Boe-Keepers' Magazine for 1879. Post-paid. 



Smokers, Bee-Keepers' Text-Book, Cook's Manual, 

 and Apiarian Supplies, at regular prices. 

 2-5 E. H. WYNKOOP, Caiskill, GreeneCo., N. Y. 



Bee Hives. 



LANGSTROTH 



AND 



MODEST, 



Single or Double Story. 



Oatman's No. 2 and 3 Honey Boxes, Section Frames, 



TT-A.XjI-A.KT GJTXIEIEirsrS, 



&c, at bottom rates. 



See advertisement in the March number of the 

 American Bee Journal. 



J. OATMAN & SONS, 



5-tl Dundee, Kane Co., 111. 



BEE-KEEPERS' GUIDE. 



A 20-Column Paper, published Monthly by the 

 WINTER BEE-HIVE MANUFACTORY 

 KEMH1.L1IIJ.1., I,\l(, 

 Subscription, SO Cents a year ; 35 Cents a year to 

 every Bee-Keeper who will send us the address of all 

 the Bee-Keepers in his vicinity, or 3 months FREE to 

 every Bee-Keeper who will send us his address. The 

 above offer is for names of persons only who have 

 never received t he paper. 1-tf 



COFFXNBxiB-ILY'S 



Excelsior Honey Extractor. 



This Extactor takes any 

 size of frame sinallerthan 

 12x20. Larger sizes will be 

 made to order if required. 

 For extracting 4 frames 

 at one time, add $2.1)0 



It is made entirely of 

 metal, and is the best 

 Honey Extractor in the 

 market. It is light, but 

 has attachments for fas- 

 tening down to a plat- 

 form. It can be instantly 

 taken to pieces fur clean- 

 ing, having no screws to 

 take out, nor heavy pieces 

 to lift. 



Some of its advantages 

 are as follows: The lower 

 end of the comb, basket 

 f haft docs nut revolve in 

 1 > honey below, even 

 wuen 00 or 70 lbs. may be 

 there ! 



■ The Comb Basket having 

 vertical, sides, insures the 

 extracting power alike for 

 tap and bottom of frames. 

 An over-motion and 

 stronggearing is essential 

 to both ea/teot operation 

 and effective work. 

 The handles are strong and attached near the 

 centre, for eusc in carrying. 



The tin covers c'oso the machine up tightly, keep- 

 ing it free from dust and dirt when nut in use. 



It is provided with a small comb-hoider for ex- 

 tracting pieces of comb or partly-tilled sections. 



Hints a strainer elevated some three inches above 

 the bottom < C the extractor, and entirely covering 

 the can :il leading to the honey-gate. This "strainer" 

 can be Instant 'y removed, cleaned and replaced. 



The honey receptacle 1 as capacity for fill or TO lbs. 

 of honey, where it may be allowed to ripen before 

 drawing off, if desired. 



The Excels! or Honey extractor combines 

 all the advantages of other Extractors, and is the 

 cheapest thoroughly practical machine ever yet made. 



i'SJICE, $12. OO. 



