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Gleanings in Bee Culture 



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. 



QUIBIN-THE-QUEEN-BREEDEK, Bellevue, O. 



RAY PRINTING CO., Fostoria, 0. 



1 Ma*e ENGRAVINGS /or GLEANINGS 



By Our Business Manager 



SECOND-HAND CANS. 



Some may have secured a surplus of fall honey, 

 and need cans to put it in. You can not do better 

 than secure some of our choice second-hand cans 

 at 83.00 for ten boxes of two cans each; 25 boxes or 

 more at 25 cts. each; 200 boxes or over at 20 cts. 

 each. "We are emptying a large number of cans, 

 and save only the best— those which are entirely 

 suitable for refilling with honey after they are 

 scalded out. 



SPECIAL REMOVAL SALE. 



We are moving our New York office and ware- 

 house to a new location. We have a number of 

 items which we will close out at a special low price 

 rather than move them, ^^'e have not the list nor 

 the space to give them here, but will mail to any 

 one interested who calls for it. As we have to be 

 moved by Nov. 1st, you will need to act promptly to 

 avail yourself of this cliance for a special bargain. 

 Apply to this office or direct to our New York office 

 at 603 Evening Post Building. Soon after Nov. 

 1st our New York address will be 139-141 Franklin 

 St, Send for special oflfer as it will be worth your 

 while. 



PERFORATED ZINC ADVANCED. 



The increased cost of sheet zinc makes it neces- 

 sary to mark up the price on perforated zinc sheets 

 and zinc honey-boards. The new prices are as fol- 

 lows: 



Zinc sheets 32x96, 81.75 each. 



No. 1 zinc honey-board, 14^8x19/8, 81.80 for 10. 



No. 2 16x20, 82.00 for 10. 



No. 11 ' 12x19/8, 81.60 for 10. 



No. 12 zinc, wood-bound, 16x20, 82.40 for 10. 



No. 13 13%x20, 82.20 for 10. 



No. 9, slatted wood-zinc, 13%x20, 82.30 for 10. 



No. 10 " '• " 16x20. 82.50 for 10. 



Zinc strips, two-row holes, 81.40 per 100. 



We make no change in price of wood-wire honey- 

 boards, which are very much better than perfor- 

 ated zinc for the purpose, because the bee-passages 

 are smooth and can not tear the bees" wings in 

 passing through, as is likely to happen with per- 

 forated metal with holes having sharp raw edges. 



COMB AND EXTRACTED HONEY. 



To those who did not secure sufficient honey for 

 their trade, we want to say that we have just re- 

 ceived several carloads of the finest sweet clover 

 and alfalfa clover, and we have also a rather limit- 

 ed stock of extra-fine orange and sage extracted 

 honey. Any of the foregoing grades we can furnish 

 in quarts, half-gallon, one-gallon, and five-gallon 

 cajis; or if you do not want it in packages of these 



sizes, we can furnish it in almost any size or style 

 of package that you require. 



While we handle but little light-amber or dark- 

 amber extracted, we have some very fine: and if 

 you can use amber grades we can ship you as tine a 

 lot of honey as you have ever handled. Our stock 

 of choice white comb honey in fancy. No. 1, or No. 

 2 grades, is complete. We have also some very de- 

 sirable shipments of comb honey in amber and 

 bvickwheat flavors. 



Many bee-keepers are of the opinion that, if their 

 crop is short, they can not get honey elsewhere, or 

 that the trade would not be satisfied with a slight 

 change of flavor. This is not so. We have found 

 out by past experience that consumers of honey 

 are willing to take other kinds when their flavor fs 

 not obtainable. 



If you are interested in the above, write us, tell- 

 ing exactly what kind of honey your trade de- 

 mands, and we shall be glad to send you a sample 

 of the extracted as nearly as we can duplicate it, 

 free of charge: also give you a full description, 

 with prices, of our comb and extracted honey by 

 return mail. 



SPECIAL BARGAIN IN PREMIUM JARS. 



It would be hard to find another fruit-jar with as 

 many desirable features as 

 the Premium jar, which 

 we have listed in our gene- 

 ral catalog for the past two 

 seasons. It has an extra- 

 large mouth, 3K-inch. The 

 cover as well as the jar is 

 of clear glass with a rub- 

 ber ring between. The wire 

 sealing-clamp is very sim- 

 ple and effective. The cov- 

 er is sunk so that jars may 

 be tiered up on shelves, 

 one resting securely on the 

 one below. Nothing could 

 be nicer for putting up 

 "chunk" comb honeV in 

 glass. 



The factory makingthem 

 got into financial difficul- 

 ty, and we have secured 

 considerable stock at a low 

 ijrice, which enables us to 

 make a special sale price 

 as follows, good only while the stock lasts. The 

 jars are packed in corrugated-paper cartons of one 

 dozen each, which usually carry safely. On long- 

 distance shipments we will put six cartons in a 

 crate for further safety, if desired, at 30 cents per 

 gross extra. 

 One-pint jars, 70 cts. per doz.; 87.20 per gross. 

 One-quart jars, 75 cts. per doz.; 87.80 per gross. 

 Two-quart jars, 81.00 per doz.; 810.80 per gross. 

 These prices apply only on shipments from Medi- 

 na, ordered from this notice, for a limited time. If 

 more convenient the order may be placed with 

 your dealer, to be forwarded, and shipment made 

 from Medina direct. 



SWEET-CLOVER SEED. 



We have secured a good supply of both hulled 

 and unhulled white sweet-clover seed, a part of 

 which is on the way to us, and should arrive before 

 any orders can reach us in answer to this notice. 

 We have also secured a thousand pounds of un- 

 hulled yellow biennial seed, Melilotiis officinalis. 

 This variety seems to be so uncommon that it is 

 not easy to secure the seed, and we had to pay lib- 

 erally for what we have secured. In order to make 

 sure we were getting the genuine article we sub- 

 mitted a sample to the seed expert in the United 

 States Department of Agriculture, Washington, 

 and he pronounces it all right. We still have an 

 abundant supply of last year's seed of yellow annu- 

 al, which is good, and germinates freely. No old 

 seed of any other variety remains on hand, as all 

 stock has been sold and disposed of. We offer the 

 seed of the variovis kinds mentioned at the follow- 

 ing prices: 



In lots of- 

 Hulled Yellow Annual 



(MelUotus J7idica) , per \h 15c 12c lie 

 Unhulled Yellow Biennial 



(MelHotus offlc.inaiis) , 



Hulled White 



Unhulled White (Melilotus 



alba) per lb 16c 



1 lb. 10 lbs. 26 lbs. 100 lbs. 



25c 

 23c 



22c 



20c 



21c 

 19c 



10c 



20c 

 18c 



14c 13c 



12c 



