MARCH 1, 1916 



QUEENS FOR EARLY SPRING DELIVERY 



We condut't a Bee and Queen Rearing 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 EARLY 

 SPRING DELIVERY. WE GUARANTEE PURE MATING AND SATISFACTION 

 IN EVERY RESPECT, OR MONEY REFUNDED. 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. 



Shipments begin March 1. 



PRICES ON BEES BY THE POUND F. O. B. SHIP- 

 PING POINT Shipment begins May 10. 



1 6 12 



Untested $1.50 $ 7.50 $12.00 



Tested 2.00 10.50 18.00 



Select Tested ... 3.00 15.00 24.00 



Tested Breeding Queens, 



$5.00 and $10.00 each. 



%-lb $1.50 



1-lb 2.00 



2-lbs 3.00 



3-lbs 4.00 



5-lbs 5.50 



6 



P 7.50 

 10.50 

 15.00 

 21.00 

 27.50 



(These prices are without Queens) 



12 

 $12.00 

 18.00 

 27.50 

 36.00 

 50.00 



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 1 



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



Address all communications to | 



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



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"A Square Deal" 



Markham Ont., Oct. 1, 1915. 

 Mr. H. D. Murry, Mathis, Texas. 



Dear Mr. Murry: — As I have used quite a num- 

 ber of your queens during the last three seasons, I 

 thought you might be interested to know how they 

 have turned out. They have given universal satis- 

 faction, and in only three or four cases in this time 

 have any queens shown to be defective. In each 

 case such queens were promptly replaced. While 

 the queens have given satisfaction, that is only one 

 factor that pleases me in my dealings with you, as 

 during all the time I have had business connections 

 with you promptness in answering letters, and other 

 features that go to make the ordinary routine of 

 business a pleasure have always been in evidence. 

 While I feel that I can confidently recommend your 

 queens as being satisfactory in every way I certain- 

 ly can also assure prospective customers that they 

 can be sure of a " squar^ deal" every time they 

 do business with you. J. L. By'er. 



Starting twenty yeaia ago with queens from H. L. 

 Roby, of Worthington, W. Va., and later securing 

 a tine breeder from J. P. Moore, Morgan, Ky., then 

 by constantly, carefully selecting by breeders from 

 the colonies giving the best yields of honey and 

 sliowing the most desirable traits otherwise, I have 

 built up a strain of bees unexcelled for beauty, gen- 

 tleness, and honey-producing qualities. Please 

 write me your needs for this season in the way of 

 queens, nuclei, and bees by the pound, and I shall 

 le pleased to give you prompt and satisfactory ser- 

 vice. Three-banded Italians. No disease. Tested 

 pueens in March; mtested queens after April 1. 

 Prices before May 1: Tested queens, $1.25 each; 

 ^'1" 00 per dozen; untested queens, $1.00 each; 

 $lu.00 per dozen. 



H. D. Murry, Mathis, Texas 

 If Your Bees Have Foul Brood 



Get my queens. Three-band and Golden Italians. 



One Unlesled Queen. SI. 00, six, $5.00. One Tested 



Queen, $1.50; six, $8.00. One-frame Nuclei, $2.00; 



2-frame, $3.00. Add price of queen wanted. 



% lb. bees, $1.50; 1 Iby $2.50. 



W. J. LITTLEFIELD, LITTLE ROCK, ARK. 



414 West 7th Street 



Three -band Italian Queens 



My queens are bred from imported mothers. 



They are the best for honey-gatbering and gentleness. 



I fill orders as promptly as possible. 



GUARANTEE that all queens will reach you in 

 good ctmdition. to be purely mated, and will give per- 

 fect satisfaction. 



PRICES — April 1 to July I 

 Untested . . one. $0.75; six, $4.25; 



Select Untested .9f> 5.00 



Tested . . 1.25 7.00 



Select tested . . 2.00 11.00 



, $8 00 



9.00 



13.00 



20.00 



L. L. Forehand, Fort Deposit, Ala. 



Do You Need a Queen for that Queen- 

 less Colony? 



^¥e can furnish tested Italian queens by return 

 mail, $1.00 each. These queens are not cull nor 

 inferior in any way because they are cheap. They 

 v/ere reared last September and October, and win- 

 tered in four-frame nuclei expressly for our early 

 spring trade in tested queens. We expect to have 

 untested queens ready to mail about April 10; $1.00 

 for single queen; $9.00 per dozen. W^e began rear- 

 ing queens for sale in 1886. Our strain of three- 

 band Italians is well known to leading beekeepers. 

 We have never had a case of foul brood in our 

 apiary, and we guarantee every queen sent out by 

 us. We solicit your orders. 



J. W. K. Shaw & Co., Loreauville, Louisiana 



^ITALIAN QUEENS 



-M THREE-BANDED 



\^ Ready April 1. Of an exceptionally vigorous and 

 long-lived strain ol bees. They are gentle, prolific, 

 and the best of boney-gatberers. Untested, $1.00; 3, $2.75; 

 6, $5.00; 12. $9.00. Tested, $1.25; 6, $6.50; 12, $12.50. Send for 

 my free circular and price list, and see the natural conditions 

 under which my queens are raised. Will book orders now. 



John G. Miller, Corpus Christi, Texas 



723 South Carrizo Street 



