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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



April 15. 



The fl. I. f^oot CofiQpany, 



Direct Steamer for 

 Florida, Georgia, North 

 and South Carolina, Vir= 

 ginia, Maryland, Dela= 

 ware, and all points East 

 and South. 



10 Vine Sti^eet, 



Philadelphia, Pa. 



All orders sent to the Philadelphia office will have same 

 attention and care as Medina. 1900 goods now in stock. 

 Order before further advance. Full colonies of Italian 

 bees $6.00, and 3 frame nuclei at §3.25. These contain 

 guaranteed Italian queens, and raised in the sands of 

 Delaware, where no bee-disease has yet been known. 



Dr. Miller's Honey -Queens. 



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One Untested Queen and the American 

 Bee Journal one year, Both for $1.50. 



We have been fortunate in making an arrangement with DR. C. 

 C. MILL,KR— the well-known honey-.specialist — to rear queens EX- 

 CLUSlVEIvY FOR US DURING THE SEASON OF 1900. These 

 Queens will be mailed in rotation, beginning about June 1, so " first 

 come first setved." We are ready to book orders now. 



The queens Dr. Miller will send out on our orders will be pre- 

 ci.selj- the same as those he rears for his own use, so of course they 

 will be from his best slock. His best colony in 1899 had a queen 

 reared in 1898; May 5. 1899, it had brood in four frames, and he gave it at that time a frame of brood 

 without bees. It had no other help, but May 25 a frame of brood with adhering bees was taken 

 from it, and the same thing was repeated June 3, leaving it at that time live frames of brood. It 

 stored 178 sections of honey, weighing 159 pounds (and that after July 20, in a poor season), being 

 1% times the average yield of all his colonies. A point of importance is the fact this colony did not 

 swarm, and an inspection every week or ten days showed that at no time during the entire season 

 was there even so mych as an egg in a queen-cell. Dr. Miller expects to rear queens from this one 

 during the coming season 



The demand nowadays is for BEES THAT GET THE HONEY when there is any to get, and 

 Dr. Miller has such bees. You will want to have a queen from his be,st, we are sure. 



Don't send any orders to Dr. Miller, as all MUST come through us, according to our agreement. 

 Remember, send us SI. 50 for the weekly American Bee Journal for one year, and one of dr. 

 MILLER'S UNTESTED HONEY-QUEENS. Quecn aloue, $1.00. Orders for queens to be filled in rota- 

 tion, beginning about June 1st. 



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\|i Headquarters in Chicago 

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Geo. W. York & Co., iis mich. st.. Chicago, Ill.f-JJ 



Catalog and sample copy of the weekly American Bee Journal -J- 

 FREE. Send for them. Address as above. .iK 



For Apiarian Supplies, 



address 



LEAHY MFG. CO. I 



Higginsville, Mo. 



30 S. 13th St., Omaha, Neb. 

 ast St. Louis, III. 



