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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



July, 1917 



QUEENS 



Quirin's Improved Superior Italian Bees 

 and Queens. They are Northern Bred 

 and Hardy. . 25 Years a Queen-breeder. 



Breeders. — The cream selected from our en- 

 tire stock of outyards; nothing better. These 

 breeders, $5.00 each. 



Can furnish bees on Danzenbaker and L. or 

 Hoffman frames. 



Above price on bees by pound, nuclei, and 

 colonies does not include queen. You are to 

 select such queen as you wish with the bees, 

 and add the price. 



No bees by pound sent out till first of June. 

 Also nuclei and colonies, if wanted before June 

 1, add 25 per cent to price in table. 



Breeders, select tested, and tested queens can 

 be sent out as early as weather will premit. 



Send for testimonials. Orders booked now. 



Reference — any large supply dealer or any 

 bank having Dunn's reference book. 



H. G. Quirin, Bellevue, Ohio 



By Return Mail 



Choice 



Italian Queens 



Each ... $ .75 Six $4.25 



Twelve . . 8.00 Twenty-five 15.00 



Around the Office — Continued 



Queens of MOORE'S 

 STRAIN of Italians 



PRODUCE WORKERS 



That fill the super quick 

 With honey nice and thick. 

 They have won a world-wide reputation for 

 honey-gathering, hardiness, gentleness, etc. 

 Untested queens, $1.00; six, $5.00; 12, $9.00. 

 Select untested, $1.25; six, $6.00; 12, $11.00. 

 Safe arrival and satisfaction guaranteed. 

 Circular free. 



J. P. MOORE, 



Queen-breeder Route 1. MORGAN, KY. 



I J. B. Hollopeter, Rockton, Pa. | 



roots." I say, isn't that getting some 

 tangled in 'em? I wrote him that they 

 raised Eoots here till they were all over the 

 place, but that none of us try to handle 

 them much (i-est censored). 

 * * * 



Just to show that things are " on the 

 move " in Russia : A few days ago, Glean- 

 ings received word from the publisher of 

 the Russian bee journal that its place of 

 publication had been removed from Petro- 

 grad to the city of Kazan. So far as I 

 know anything about Kazan, it might just 

 as well have been moved to Susie Ann. 

 The point I am trying to make is that 

 Russia for two months past has seemed to 

 me more like an apiary where robbing had 

 got started than anything else on the 

 footstool. * * * 



Of course, we all had to begin. The 

 Garden of Eden was just a beginner. But 

 some beginners begin more than other be- 

 ginners seem to have to begin — that is, 

 they are further off before they start to 

 begin. One of the salesmen of a big bee- 

 keejDers' supply house tells me that a letter 

 came to his department the other day asking 

 for a price on " one family of bees and 

 house; also quote on bees by the quart or 

 peck." It just illustrates my wise talk 

 about varying degrees of beginning — that's 

 all. # * * 



A good friend of mine up at Sherburn, 

 Minn., sends the copy of an advertisement 

 that has run for two seasons in his local 

 paper, that reads thus : " For Sale — Comb- 

 ed and strained honey. — A . L ." 



My friend comments that " A. L." doesn't 

 take Gleanings or he would know that 

 honey isn't " combed." Thanks for that 

 boost for Gleanings. He further says: 

 " If combed honey should become popular, 

 it might be well for The A. I. Root Co. to 

 make up those old-fashioned wooden pocket- 

 combs for either the beekeepers or bees to 



comb it with." 



* * * 



Here is an astonishing astounder that can 

 be traced directly to the lair of R. F. Hol- 

 termann — for he said it : " Speaking of 

 immunity reminds me that Mr. Stewart, of 

 New York State, considers himself to be 

 quite immune to mosquitoes. He says 

 that in handling so many bees his blood 

 has become so inoculated with bee-poison 

 that any mosquito that has the audacity to 

 bite him is instantly killed. ' At least,' 

 ventured Mr. Stewart, ' I have never known 

 a mosquito to come back after a second 

 dose.' " 



