Mat, 1921 GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



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Your present brood 

 equipment can be 

 put above the Modi- 

 fied Dadant hive 

 used as full depth 

 supers. 



Features are: Deep 

 frames, large one- 

 story brood nest, 

 frame space venti- 

 lation, excellence 

 in wintering, 

 swarming easily 

 controlled. 



Glance at this illus- 

 tration to compare 

 this hive with 

 "Standard" Lang- 

 stroth hive. 



You can get 40 per 

 cent greater brood- 

 comb area than in 

 the "Standard" 

 ten - fr'ame Lang- 

 stroth. 



Modified Dadant 

 Hive 



Modified Dadant 

 Hive Features. 



1. Eleven frames, 

 Langstroth length, 

 Quinby depth. 



2. Frames spaced 

 1^ inches for 

 swarm control. 



3. Extracting 

 frames 6^4 inches 

 deep. 



4. Dovetailed 

 body, regular re- 

 versible bottom and 

 metal roof cover 

 with inner cover. 



5. Langstroth 

 ' ' Standard ' ' equip- 

 ment easily used 

 with this hive. 



§ For free booklet writ* any distributor of Lewis "Beeware," or to ^ 



I G. B. Lewis Company Watertown, Wisconsin | 



I Dadant & Sons Hamilton, Illinois | 



PACKAGE^EES 



Have you winter losses to make up or are you thinking of making increase? If so, 

 have you considered package bees? Their advantages are many: 



good colony left, even with honey 

 at pre-war prices. (H. D. Mclntyre, Dur- 

 ham, Ont., Can., writes: "The 96 2-lb. 

 packages received from you late in May 

 average 160 pounds of surplus.") 



6. You do not weaken 



You take 



1. You always have a vduiig and vig- 

 orous Italian queen. 



2. Pure Italians; no disagreeable black 

 bees to handle. 



3. Freedom from disease. 

 no chance of infecting 

 your apiary with foul 

 brood in buying pack- 

 age bees from us. 



4. You furnisli your own 

 equipment ; it is there- 

 fore interchangeable 

 with your present equip- 

 ment. Every beekeeper 

 Knows the annoyance of 

 fooling with odd-sized hives and frames 

 and crossed or drone comb in colonies 

 bought locally. 



5. They can be made to pay for them- 

 selves in a single season and have a 



PRICES 



1 2-lb. package (add 75e for 



parrel post) $5.00 



.50 2-lb. packase.s, or more, ea. 4.75 



1 Untested Queen 150 



12 Untested Queens 15.00 



1 Select Untested Queen... 2.00 

 12 Select Untested Queens .. 19.00 



1 Tested Queen 2.50 



12 Tested Queens 25.00 



1 Select Test.ed Queen.... 3.00 

 12 Select Tested Queens. ... 30.00 



your present colonies, 

 as is the case with arti- 

 ficial or natural swarm- 

 ing, thereby sacrificing 

 your honey crop. 

 If you have tried pack- 

 age bees from other 

 shippers with unsatis- 

 factory results now try 

 ours; safe arrival in the IT. S. and 

 Canada, and satisfaction guaranteed. 

 Absolute freedom from disease. We are 

 now prepared to ship all orders 

 promptly. 



J. M. CUTTS, Route 1 , Montgomery, Alabama 



