Septembkr, 1917 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



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QUEENS ^ OF # QUALITY 



Capacity of Yard over 1000 Queens a Month 



After 20 years of careful selecting and breeding I now have a strain of bees 

 that cannot be excelled by any. . . . My queens are all bred from IMPORTED 

 STOCK, the very best in the world for honey-gathering and gentleness. They are 



not given to swarming, 

 qualities? 



1 



Untested $ .50 



Select untested. . .75 



What more do you want in bees than the three above 



12 



$4.25 $8.00 



GUAKANTEE. — You take no risk in buying my queens, for I guarantee every 

 queen to reach you in first-class condition, to be purely mated, and to give perfect 

 satisfaction. All queens that do not give satisfaction I will replace or return 

 vour monev. Send for circular. 



L. L. Forehand, Ft. Deposit, Alabama | 



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I Eastern Beekeepers | 



I This is the time you will need | 



I hives, sections, and foundation. Let | 



I us mail you our catalog giving prices | 



I on everything a beekeeper needs. | 



I We furnish full and nucleus colonies, | 



I bees by the pound, and queens. | 



i A 3-fr. nucleus colony and Italian | 



i queen in a shipping-box, $5.10; test- | 



I ed Italian queens, $1.50; untested, | 



I $1.10. I 



I Our location enables us to get | 



I goods to you promptly. | 



j I. J. Stringham, 105 Park PL, N. Y. j 

 1 Home Apiary: Glen Cove, L. I. | 



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I Mott's Northern-bred Italian 



I Queens 



i are hardy, prolific, gentle, and hustlers, 



I therefore resist well disea'^e. 



I Untested, 75c each; $8.00 for 12. 



I Sel. Tested, $1.50 each. 



j Virgins, 50c each; or three for $1.00. 



I Bees by pound. 



j Plans "How to Introduce Queens," 



1 and "Increase," 25c. List free. 



I E. E. MOTT, Glenwood, Mich. | 



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Around the Office — Continued 



He dictated right then and there a regi- 

 mental order ordeiing Private Henry Smith, 

 in training at American Lake, Wash., to 

 convoy one queen-bee and male escort to the 

 * ' home ranch. ' ' The old man hobbled out 

 of the recruiting office, a smile wreathing 

 his face. Later reports are to the effect 

 that the "automobeel" got Dad Smith to 

 the "home ranch" unstang further, and 

 with the queen in good condition. 



* * * 



Chalon Fowls, that veteran beekeeper over 

 at Oberlin, O., seems to be a pretty good sort 

 and the possessor of a funny bone, too, for 

 he sends M.-A.-O. this one: "One day an old 

 darkey called on me, and, instead of asking 

 for extracted honey as he had been doing, 

 he requested comb. I remonstrated, saying: 

 'Why, Uncle Billy, you wont' get nearly as 

 much for your money if you take the comb. ' 

 'Yas, ' he replied, 'I know dat, Mister Fowls, 

 an ' I laik de abstract myself. But dat boy 

 ob mine, he caint git nuffin else in his" fool 

 head. He laikes it in de comb an' he don' 

 laike it in de ABSTRACT.' " 



I saw a fellow mortal of mine once stung 

 to about one and one-half his normal size — 

 not because he hadn't been around an apiary 

 a lot, but just because he had never been 

 allowed any practice till the hour of battle 

 dawned on a tremendous robbing occasion. 

 Then he and the bees both got great practice. 

 The ' ' old man, ' ' viewing his son 's swollen 

 condition after the battle, drawled out: "T 

 s 'posed Charlie had caught on better 'n 

 that by jest bein ' 'round 'em." But 

 Charlie had "caught on" to nothing ex- 

 cept about -i')',') stings in the robbing 



