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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



Apr. 1 



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QUEENS 



Golden Italian and 

 Leather Colored, | 



Warranted to give satisfaction, those are the kind reared by Quirln'the^Queen-Breeder. We guarantee 

 every queen sent out to please you. or it may be returned inside ol bO days, and another will be sent 

 "gratis." Our business was established in 1888, our stock originated from the best and highest-priced 

 Long=tongued Red=Clover Breeders in the United States. We t-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 

 saj'S that he has good reports from our stock, from time to time. Dr. J. L,. Gandy, of Humboldt, Neb., 

 says that he secured over 400 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 specially with us. 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 postoffice, 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. -Ji 



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6 I 12 



Select I $1 00 



Tested 



Select Tested 



Breeders 



Straight Five-band Breeders 



Palestine Queens 



Two-comb~Nuclei, no cjueen.. 

 Full Colony on eight frames.. 

 Four fr's brood, 4 fr's fdn.... 



1 50 



2 (0 



4 00 

 (i 00 

 2 00 

 2 50 

 6 00 I RO 00 I 



5 00 I 25 00 



JO to I JiHO 

 8 00 I 15 00 

 10 CO I 18 00 



10 00 I IS 00 

 14 00 ii;5 10 



Special low price en Queens and 



Nuclei In 50 and 100 Lois. 



Quirin=the=Queen= Breeder, Bellevue, o. 



Choice Quaens for 1904- 



We are again offering queens of the best stock ob- 

 tainable. All breeding- jueens 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 proot 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 Leather Italians, or 

 Carniolans, warranted pure, Jl CO each, $9.00 perdozen. 

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



GEORGE J. VANDE VOBD, 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 spting. I am 

 breeding the Holy I^ands, the Golden and Leather 

 strains of pure Italians. Your orders will receive 



Erompt and cnreful attention. Single queen, $1.25; 

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



W. H. Laws, Beeville, Texas. 



Is recognized as such, to the extent that 

 last season I was compelled to withdraw 

 my ad. to keep from being swamped 

 with orders. THIS SEASON I SHALL 

 RUN MY 



Thirteen Hundred Colonies Exclii= 

 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 QueensSl.OO; select un- 

 tested $1.25; tested S1.50; select tested $2.50; 

 breeders $4.00 to $7.00. 

 Illustrated price list free for the asking. 



W. 0. VICTOR, 



Wharton, Tex. 



Queen Specialist 



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I will sell in May, '"^ 



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, HowaidsviUe, Va. 



