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Gleanings in Bee Culture 



Real Estate 



For Sale.— a 20-acre fruit, poultry, truck, and 

 bee farm near University, Va. Bargain. 



V. M. Cady, Ivycroft, Charlottesville, Va. 



Fob Sale. — Fine five-room cottage, 105 feet front, 

 corner; elegant shade; water, etc.; town of 2000, in 

 heart of the best irrigated section of the West, to- 

 gether with 50 stands of bees, new 10-fr. hives, 150 

 supers, 50 extra hives; only apiary near; most ex- 

 cellent locality. All for JSOOO.OO. Asthma; want 

 change. W. A. Marshall, Emmett, Idaho. 



Poultry 



April-hatched Indian Runner ducks, fawn and 

 white; S2.00 each; 83.50 a pair; 85.00 per trio. White- 

 egg strain. Kent Jennings, Mt. Gilead, Ohio. 



Indian Runner Ducks.— Full-grown young stock 

 for sale, either fawn and white or penciled, from 

 best strains in America. Eggs for hatching. AU 

 sales guaranteed as represented. 



C. O. Yost, Rt. 4, Winchester, Ind. 



Buttercups. — Both young and old stock. Order 

 early and get the best. From 83.00 up. 



RiVERViEW Poultry Farm, Union City, Mich. 



For Sale.— Ouston White Wyandottes, 12.00; 15 

 eggs, 81; 85 per 100. Elmer Gimlin, Taylorvllle, 111. 



Buttercups for utility and beauty; selected pens; 

 unlike others. II. V. Meeker, Earl St., Toledo, O. 



White-faced Black Spanish eggs for hatching; 15, 

 81.00; 50, 83.00; 100, 85.00. Also dealer in bee-keepers' 

 supplies of all kinds. A. W. Swan, Centralia, Kan. 



Gulden Barkeu Rocks. — The beauty and utility 

 breed. They are barred bufl on white, making a 

 most beautiful fowl. Write for descriptive catalog. 

 L,. K. Altwein, originator, St, Joseph. Mo. 



Bee-keepers' Directory 



Nutmeg Italian queens, after June 1, 81.00. Circu- 

 lar. A. W. Yates, 3 Chapman St., Hartford, Ct. 



Bees, queens, supplies, and export; free school. 

 W. C. Morris, 74 Cortlandt St., New York. 



Well-bred bees and queens. Hives and supplies. 

 J. H. M. Cook, 70 Cortlandt St., New York. 



For bee-smoker and honey-knife circular send a 

 card to T. F. Bingham, Alma, Mich. 



Improved golden-yellow Italian queens for 1911; 

 beautiful, hustling, gentle workers. Send for price 

 list to E. E. Lawrence, Doniphan, Mo. 



Queens. — Improved red-clover Italians, bred for 

 business; June 1 to Nov. 15, untested queens, 60 cts.; 

 select, 75 c; tested, 81.00 each. Safe arrival and sat- 

 isfaction guaranteed. H. C. Clemons, Boyd, Ky. 



Quirin's famous improved Italian queens ready 

 in April; nuclei and colonies about May 1. My stock 

 is northern-bred and hardy. Five yards wintered 

 on summer stands in 1908 and 1909 without a single 

 loss. For prices see large advertisement. 



Quirin-the-Queen-breeder, Bellevue, O. 



IS,GRA.YlNGS#r"GLEAMNGS 



«^?^ GRAY PRINTING CO., Fostoria, 0. 



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By Our Business Manager 



QUEEN orders. 



We have had an unusually good trade in queens 

 this season, and have been sending them out in 

 large numbers every day for weeks, and our yards 

 are still producing. However, we have just been 

 having a few days of cold, rainy weather, and it is 

 possible that there may be a little delay in filling 

 orders for a few days. If our friends will be as 

 patient as possible, they may be sure that we will 

 do the best we can for them, and we hope that the 

 delays will not be long in any case. 



poultry books. 



Many of the most interesting and authentic books 

 on poultry culture that have ever been published 

 are included in a series entitled "The Reliable 

 Poultry Library." The reading-matter in each of 

 these books consists largely of reprinted articles 

 from the Keliable Poultry Journal and other lead- 

 ing poultry publications, and they are illustrated 

 throughout with fine half-tone engravings, draw- 

 ings, etc. 



In looking over our stock of books we have found 

 several numbers of the "Reliable Poultry Library"' 

 on our shelves—not a great many copies of each; 

 but to clear these out while they last we offer each 

 of the titles named below at a little discount from 

 the publisher's price. Orders should be addressed 

 to the Book Department, Gleanings in Bee Cul- 

 ture, and it will be well to make known your 

 requirements at once, as these books can not be 

 supplied at cut prices when the present stock is 

 exhausted. 



Publisher's Our price 

 Price postiiaid 



The Chick Book 8.50 8.30 



The Plymouth Rock- All Varieties. . 1.00 .60 



The Asiatics, Brahmas, Cochins, 



and Langshans 50 .30 



The Bantam Fowl 50 .30 



Artificial Incubating and Brooding ,50 .30 



Reliable Poultry Remedies 35 .15 



The Wyandottes 1.00 .60 



Capons for Profit .50 .30 



A \'aluable Book on Poultry Dis- 

 eases, Conkey 25 .05 



complaints against a queen-breedek. 



A number of our friends have filed complaints 

 against W. S. McKnight, Newton, Ala., who, after 

 having received their orders for queens, accom- 

 panied by cash, has failed, it is reported, to make 

 delivery, and will not now answer their letters nor 

 make any explanation whatever. 



Mr. McKnight" s first advertisement appeared in 

 the "Bees and <,Jueens'' column of Gleanings, 

 April 1, 1911, and many orders were sent to him 

 from readers of this journal. It was several weeks 

 later before comitlaints began to come in, and im- 

 mediately upon receijjt of the first complaint we 

 requested an explanation of the delay in filling 

 orders received through our advertising. Mr. 

 McKnight replied by saying that his shop was 

 destroyed by fire during the month of May, and 

 that the loss included most of the correspondence 

 and queen orders he had so far received. He fur- 

 ther requested that we ask his patrons to bear 

 with him in his trouble, and advise at once of 

 orders they had sent, with the amount, and what 

 for. A special notice to this effect was published 

 in our June 1st issue. Of course, we hoped that 

 this would right all misunderstanding, and that 

 Mr. McKnight would soon be in a position to 

 catch up with his orders. Beginning a very few 

 days after the notice mentioned above appeared, 

 we have received in almost every mail a complaint 

 against him. In some instances he has received 

 only 81.00, while others report having sent sums of 

 several times this amount for queens which have 

 not been delivered. 



We have written Mr. McKnight several times, 

 offering him every possible encouragement by 

 promising cooperation, etc., in satisfying his pat- 

 rons, to none of which letters we have received a 

 reply. 



Later. — Since writing the foregoing we have 

 heard from Mr. McKnight, who writes as follows; 



