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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



Apr. 15 



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Golden Italian and 

 Leather Colored, 



QUEENS 



Warranted to give satisfaction, those are the kind reared by puirin=the=Queen=Breeder. We guarantee 

 every queen sent out to please you, or it may be returned iuside or t>0 aays. and another will be sent 

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

 Long=tongued Red=CIover Breeders in the United States. We s-end out fine queens, and send them 

 promptly. We guarantee safe deli%'ery to any State, continental island, or European Countiy. 



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 f^tock, from time to time. Dr. J. I,. Gandy, of Humboldt, Neb., 

 says that he secured over 400 pounds of honey (mostly comb), from single colonies contain. ng 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 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. 



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Select I SI 00 I $5 to I $9 ( S" 



Tested 150' 8 00 | 15 00 ~ 



.Select Tested 2(0 10 CO I 18 00 



Breeders 4 00 



Straight Five-band Breeders 6 00 



Palestine Queens 2 00 10 00 | IS 00 



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

 Full Colony on eight frames.. 6 00 ?.0 00 

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

 Special low price on Queens and 



Nuclei in 50 and 100 Lots. 



SuperiorStock 



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



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Choice Queens for 1904- 



We are again offering queens of the best stock ob- 

 tainai le. 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 

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

 they are all far ahead of the common run. 



Lki.and Baldwin. 

 Toronto Can., April S, J 903. 

 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. 



Unlestfd queens of Golden or Leather Italians, or 

 Carniolans, warranted pare, fl (Oeach, $9.00 per dozen. 

 Tested, $1 25 each, $12 00 per dozen. 



GEORGE J. VANOE 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 I<ands, the Golden and Leather 

 strains of pure Italians. Your orders will receive 



Erompt and careful 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 Calonies Exclu= 

 sively for Bees and Queens 



— and will therefore soon be able to — 



Have 2000 to 2200 



Colonies and Nuclei in Operation 



which vearrants me in promising prompt 

 service. Uniested OueensSl. 00; select un- 

 tested $1.25; tested SL-^O; select tested $2.50; 

 breeders $4.00 to $7.00. 

 Illustrated price list free for the asking. 



W. 0. VICTOR, 



Queen Specialist. 



Wharton, Tex 



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