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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



May 



m For Sale. ISSi 



Pure Italian (!ueens% Bees 



FIVE-FEAME (Langstroth Frame) COLONIES 

 A specialty. Five bright new combs, wired in, cov- 

 ered with youDg- bees, tilled with brood and stores 

 wit"h a pure young fertile Italian queen. My queens 

 are carefully bred from best imported and homebred 

 stock. Bees gentle, industrious, and beautiful; bet- 

 ter than a natural swarm. I was awarded first pre- 

 mium at St. Louis Fair last fall over quite a number 

 of worthy competitors for best Italian queens and 

 bees. Send for circular and price list. 



WILWAOT lilTTLE, 

 5-7-9-lH3-15d Marlssa, St. Clair Co., Ills. 



SIMPLICITY B-HIVES, 



with 10 frames and cover. 65 cents. The same in 

 flat, 50 cts. D.)uble-story Langstroth hive, with 20 

 frames, all complete, SLOO. 1-lb. spctions, per 1000, 

 $3.75. T. A.GUNN, 



.5-7-9d. TullHhoma. Tenn. 



M MILLS. 10 iNCH''$ 15:00, 

 11^ , >a/.g:.relh am..-; 



Jested ®mQn6 a gpccialtg. 



Have been handling Italian Bees for 24 years; so 

 you see that when you get my i?'00 tested queens in 

 May and June, you buy of one who knows the bee. 

 Untested for the same months, from imported queen, 

 ?;1C0. EUGENE DIEPENDOKF, 



8-13db Moniteau, Moniteau Co., Mo. 



SEND FOR OUR CIRCULAR! 



We keep in stock a full line of bee-keepers' sup- 

 plies. Simplicity and chafif hives, one-piece sections, 

 crates and cases, extractors, smoker.'J. Given founda- 

 tion, and BEES AND QUEENS. Circular free. 



7-12db REYNOLDS BROS., Williamsburg, Ind. 



FOUNDATION 



Recent valuable improvements in our machinery 

 enable us to make bottom prices Our foundation 

 is unexcelled by any made in the United States. Or- 

 ders filled in rotation. Genera T, Supplies. 



M. C. VON DORN, 



7b.tfd. 820 S. Avenue, Omaha, Neb. 



TESTED QUEENS, »2.(10. Untested, $1.00. 4-frame 

 nuclei, $3 50 and $t .50. 

 3tfd OSCAR F. BLEDSOE, Grenada, Miss. 



NEVER BEFORE ATTEMPTED! 



I have invented a Queen Cage by means of which I 

 guarantee both safe arrival and safe introduction of 

 all queens purchased of me, for only a small addi- 

 tion to regular prine of queen. For full particulars 

 send for my circular at once. S. A. DYKE, 



7-153. Box 473, Pomeroy, Ohio. 



Italian Queens $6 per Poz 



Italian queens, raised from imported or pure 

 American stock. Safe arrival warranted from 

 .Tune 15 to Oct. 15, for $1.00 fach; at owner's risk, 

 75c each, or 7 for $5 00. With 25 days to fill orders, 

 $6 00 per dozen the vear round. All queens at own- 

 er's risk from Oct. 15 to June 15; S5.00 and over at my 

 expense for registered lettpr or postollice money or- 

 der. Address DR .JOHN M. PRICE. 



7-5d. Tampa, Hillsboro Co., Florida. 



WHY SEEK ANY FOETHER ? 



My strain of Italian bees is not surpassed for hon- 

 ey-gathering and beauty of form. Dollar queens a 

 specialty. A. COX, 



5-7-9d. WhiteLick, Boone Co., Ind. 



ALL DOVETAILED SECTIONS! 



Langstroth and chaff hives, brood and wide frames, 

 fiering-up cases, shipping -crates, honey-e.xtractors. 

 pnper boxfis for 1-lb. section?, wire nails, queens, and 

 nuclei. Write for circular. WHEELER & ISBELL, 

 Norwich, Chenang j Co., N. Y. 57ad. 



EARLY AND GOOD ! 



TESTED AND UNTESTED QUEENS, raised from 

 the best and purest stock. Price list on appli- 

 cation. Send orders at once to 



W. jr. ELLISON, 

 C-7-9-lld Stateburg, Sumter Co., S. C. 



I WANT TO SELL. 



Being unable to keep, for want of room, my accu- 

 mulation of Simplicity Hives, Frames, Sections, 

 Chafif hives, and all such machinery; all new, but 

 the man and experience. Price list free. 



C. P. BISH, 

 9-17d Petrolia, Butler Co., Pa. 



DAD ANT'S 

 FOUNDATION 



is asserted by hundreds of practical and disinterpst- 

 ed bee-keepers to be the cleanest, brightest, quick- 

 est accepted by bees, least apt to sag, most regular 

 in color, evenest, and neatest, of any that is made. 



It is kept for sale by Messrs. A. H. Newman, Chi- 

 cago, 111. ; C. F. Muth, Cincinnati. O.; Jas. Heddon, 

 Dowagiac, Mich.; D )ugherty & McKee, Indianapo- 

 lis, Ind.; Chas. H. Green, Berlin, Wis. ; Chas. Hertel, 

 Jr., Freeburg. 111.; Wm. Ballantine, Sago. O.; E. S. 

 Armstrong. Jerseyville, 111.; H. Drum, Adelphi, C; 

 Arthur Todd, Germantown, Philadelphia, Pa., E. 

 Kretchmer. Coburg. Iowa; E.F.Smith, Smyrna, N. 

 Y. ; C. T. Dale, Mortonsville, Ky., and numerous 

 other dealers. 



Write for samples /ree, and price list of supplies, 

 accompanied with 150 coinplinieutary and xmso- 

 licited testimonials, from as many bee-keepers, in 

 1883. We guarantee every inch of our foundation equul 

 to sample in every respect. 



CHAS. DADANT & SON. 



3btfd. Hamilton, Hancock Co., 111. 



Sent by return mail. My moUo is, "A fair equiva- 

 lent for every dollar received." Prices: 



Untested queens from imported mother, April and 

 May. III. 50; .lune and July, S^l.'25. April and May, 

 per dozen, J15.0U; June and July, per dozen. $12.00. I 

 will send Gleanings one year, and a queen, for 

 $2. 00. Send money orders on Hillsboro. 

 7tfdb. H. A. GOODRICH, Massie, Hill Co., Texas. 



RICHMOND, FORT BEND CO., TEXAS, 



DEALER IN 



PURE ITALIAN BEES AND QUEENS. 



7tfdb SEND FOR CIRCULAR. 



^•PORETfALIAN QUEENS l" 



Bred in "SweetCity" Apiary. Bees by the lb., 

 and nuclei of any size. Write for circular. 

 7-13d, G. W. DEMAREE, Ciaristiaasburg, Ky. 



