1904 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



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Golden Italian and 

 Leather Cilored, 



QUEENS 



Warranted to give satisfaction, those are the kind reared bv Quirin-the-Queen-Breeder. We guarantee 

 every queen sent out to please you, or it may be returned inside of HO days, and another will be sent 

 "gratis." Our business was established in 1S88, our stock originated from the best and highest-priced 

 Long-tongued Red-Clover Breeders In the United States. We .>-end out fine queens, and send them 

 promptly. We guarantee safe delivery to any State, continental island, or European Country. 



The A.. I Root Co. tells us that our stock is extra fine, while the editor of the American Bee Journal 

 says that he has good reports from our .'tock, from time to time. Dr. J. I,. Gandy, of Humboldt, Neb., 

 says that he secured over -100 pounds of honey (mostly combi, from single colonies containing our queens. 



We have files of unsolicited testimonials, but 

 space forbids giving any here. 



We employ 400 swarms in queen-rearing, the 

 business is a specialty with ns. We expect to 

 keep 600 to 1200 queens on hand. Early in the 

 spring, when the weather is cool queens will be 

 shipped form the South. Parkertown, O,, was 

 our po>toffice, but we have changed to Bellevue 

 which has 13 mails each way daily. (No more of 

 our queens will be jerked from a crane.) Our 

 new circular now ready to mail. 



ADDRESS ALL ORDERS TO 



Price of Queens Before July First. J" 



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Select I $1 00 I $.5 00 I $9 CO V 



Tested 150 1 8 00 | 15 00 JU 



Select Tested 2 00 10 CO 1 18 00 % 



Breeders 4 00 | J^ 



Straight Five-band Breeders 6 00 | 7^ 



Palestine Queens 2 00 10 00 | 18 00 $ 



Two-comb Nuclei, no queen.. | 2 50 14 00 I 25 10 i? 



Full Colony on eight frames.. | 6 00 30 00 Sf 



Four fr's brood, 4 fr's fdn.... | 5 00 | 25 00 | % 



Special low price on Queens and t 



Nuclei in 50 and 100 Lots. 2> 



Quirin=the=Queer»= Breeder, Beiievue, o. 



Victor's- 



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Superior Stock 



Is recognized as such, to the extent that 

 last .'eason I was compelled to withdraw 

 my ad. to keep from being swamped 

 with orders. THIS SEASON I SHAI,L, 

 RUN MY 



Thirteen Hundred Colonies Exclu= 

 sively for Bees and Queens 



— -and will therefore soon be able to — 



Have 2000 to 2200 



Colonies and Nuclei in Operation 



which warrants me in promising prompt 

 service. Untested QueensSlOO; select un- 

 tested $1.25; tested (f I .50; select tested $2.50; 

 breeders $4 00 to $7.00. 

 Illustrated piice list free for the asking. 



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W. O. VICTOR, 



Queen Specialist. WhaftOn, TCX. 



Choice Queens for 1904- 



We are again ofifering queens of the best stock ob- 

 tainable. All breeding-^iueens are selected, first, for 

 superior honey produciion, and pleased customers are 

 constantly sending in reports like the following: 



Georgiana, Fla., Jan. 29, 1904. 

 The untested queen I got of you last March was a 

 dandy. I raised about all my queens from her, and 

 they are all far ahead of the common run. 



ICELAND Baldwin. 



Toronto Can., April 8, 1903. 



I am well pleased with your stock, my ordering 

 again is proof of their qualities. They proved gen- 

 tle and were good workers. Hoping that you can fill 

 my order, I am yours truly, Thos. Aikins. 



Untested queens of Golden or l,eather Italians, or 

 Carniolans, warranted pure, f 1.00 each, $i».00 per dozen. 

 Tested, $1.25 each, $12 00 per dozen. 



GEORGE J. VANDE VORD, Daytona, Fla. 

 HONEY QUEENS 



I shall continue breeding those fine queens for the 

 coming season of 1904. Meantime I shall carry over a 

 large number of queens in nuclei with which to fill 

 orders the coming winter and early spring. I am 

 breeding the Holy L,ands, the Golden and Leather 

 strains of pure Italians. Your orders will receive 

 prompt and careful attention. Single queen, |1.25; 

 five for $5 00. Breeders of either race, $3.00 each. 



W. H. Laws, Beeville, Texas. 



will sell in May, 



100 or 200 nuclei, three 

 or four frame, with tested, 

 or untested queens, or without queens, at prices pur- 

 chaser can afford to pay. 



B. F. Averill, Howaidsville, Va. 



