FEBRUARY 1, 1916 



QUEENS FOR EARLY SPRING DELIVERY 



We conduct a Bee and Queen Eearing Business in Florida during the winter, and 

 at Canton, Ohio, during the summer. We now have a carload of selected Italian Bees 

 in Florida for the purpose of supplying you with Bees and Queens for EAELY 

 SPEING DELIVEEY. WE GUAEANTEE PUEE MATING AND SATISFACTION 

 IN EVEEY EESPECT, OE MONEY EEFUNDED. We are breeding from Queens 

 that gave a surplus of 300 pounds per colony in a 24-day honey-flow. Will it not pay 

 you to have this strain of bees in your yard? Prices as follows: 



ISLAND-BRED ITALIAN QUEENS. PRICES ON BEES BY THE POUND P. O. B. SHIP- 



Shipments begin March 1. ping point. Shipment begins May 10. 



1 fi 19 1 6 12 



^nt^ted $1.50 $7.50 $12.00 ^,^^ 2.00 10.50 18.00 



Tested ... 2.00 10.50 18.00 2-lbs 3.00 15.00 27.50 



Select Tested ... 3.00 15.00 24.00 g.i^g 4.00 21.00 36.00 



Tested Breeding Queens, 5-lbs 5.50 27.50 50.00 



$5.00 and $10.00 each. (These prices are without Queens) 



Prices on Nucleus and Full Colonies without Queens. Shipping Now. 



One-frame Nucleus. .. .$2.00 Three-frame Nuclei ....$4.00 Eight-frame Colony... $ 8.50 



Two-frame Nuclei $3.00 Five-frame Nuclei 5.00 Ten-frame Colony .... 10.00 



Address all communications to 

 THE J. E. MARCHANT BEE AND HONEY COMPANY, CANTON, OHIO 



Select Bred Three-banded Italian Queens 



After 20 Years of Select Breeding We have Bees in Quality Second to None 



Price List of Our Queens 



Tested $1.25 or $1.15 per 100 Untested 75 cts. or $70.00 per 100 



Select Tested 1.50 or 1.25 per 100 Select Untested ....90 cts. or 85.00 per 100 



Price List of Our Swarms of Bees in Packages 



1 lb 1 to 50, $1.25 each ; .... 50 to 100, $1.20 each ; . . . . 100 to 500, $1.15 each 



2 lbs 1 to 50, $2.35 each ; .... 50 to 100, $2.30 each ; . . . . 100 to 500, $2.25 each 



If queens are wanted, add price as according to price list. 



Our select colonies used for breeding purposes, larvje, and select drones, are those of the highest 

 standard, the choice of over 1000 hustling, honey-producing colonies of pure Italian bees. These 

 select colonies are located in our queen-yard at such a distance from all other bees as to assure pure 

 mating, and thus effective use of our select drones. The larva used in grafting is as small as can be 

 seen and handled, having just come out of the egg. All cells are drawn and nourished in strong 

 ten-frame colonies just running over with young bees. Thus we are able to produce large, long-lived 

 and hardy queens, which give workers unexcelled for honey production. 



Our capacity is 6000 queens and 5000 pounds of bees a year, or 50 queens and 100 1-lb. 

 swarms a day. All queens warranted purely mated or are replaced free of charge. 



Safe arrival and satisfaction we gn^iarantee or we refund your money. 



We have no disease, and foul brood has never been known in our community. 



Book your order now; only a small cash payment required. 



M. C. BERRY & CO., Hayneville, Alabama — Successors to Brown & Berry 



Largest shippers of young pure Italian bees in the South. 



QUEENS OF QUALITY 



The editor of The Beekeepers' Review and his sons have 1100 colonies of bees worked for extracted 

 honey. With all those bees working with equal advantage, all ha-ving the same care and attention, they 

 have an opportunity unexcelled to ascertain without a reasonable doubt colonies desirable as breeders from 

 a honey-producers' standpoint. Likely, never in the history of beekeeping was there a better opportunity 

 to test out the honey-getting strain of bees than this. Think of it, 1100 colonies with equal show, and a 

 dozen of those colonies storing 250 to 275 pounds of surplus honey this last poor season (with us), while 

 the average of the entire 1100 being not more than 40 pounds per colony. We have sent two of our best 

 breeding queens (their colonies producing 275 pounds surplus each, during the season of 1915) to John 

 M. Davis, and two to Ben C. Davis, both of Spring Hill, Tenn., and they will breed queens for the Review 

 during the season of 1916 from those four superior honey-gathering breeding queens. Those young queens 

 will be mated witJi their thoroughbred drones. Our stock is of the three-banded strain of Italians; also 

 that of John M. Davis; while Ben C. Davis breeds that disease-resisting strain of goldens that is becoming 

 so popular. , 



By this time you are ilkely thinking that your strain of bees may be improved some by the addition of 

 this superior strain of Review queens, and how you can secure one or more of those superior honey-gather- 

 ing queens as a breeder. We will tell you. They will be sold to none except Review svhscrihers.' If you 

 are a paid-in-advance subscriber to the Review for 1916, we will mail you one of the daughters of those 

 famous queens in June for a dollar. If not a subscriber to the Review for 1916, send $1.75 for a year's 

 subscription to the Review, and one of those famous queens. These queens are well worth two dollars each 

 compared to the price usually charged for ordinary queens, but we are not trying to make money out of thie 



proposition, only we are anxious to have every subscriber to Gleanings a subscriber to the Review, and 



■^'6 aj-e taking this^way to accomplish the object. A few of the very tirst orders for queens that we receive 



v i-j •_ „,_ , . ., ... jjj ^^^ j^^ mailed until June. Orders filled in rotation. Have 



ent. Address with remittance 



THEiBEEKEEPERS' REVIEW, Northstar, Michigan. 



can be mailed in May, but the majority will not be mailed until June. Orders filled in rotation. Have your 

 order booked early and avoid disappointment. Address with remittance 



