March, l§'l2 



C*I-,EAjjtNGS IN BRE CULTURE 



201 



QUEENS 



Bright Three- 

 banded Italians. 



A nnouncement 

 to 



QUEENS 



Bright Three- 

 banded Italians. 



Beekeepers 



We are now booking orders for queens 

 for the season of 1922. 



Shipments of queens this year will com- 

 mence on March 15th, 1922. 



All queens are mated in standard full- 

 sized three-frame nuclei. 



Our queens are bred on natural honey 

 flows. No artificial 

 flows used in breed- 



Better selection of breeders cannot be 

 equaled or had anywhere. 



We have the capacity and output of 

 queens to make shipments promptly as 

 and when promised. 



All queens shipped by us in six-hole 

 mailing cages. No small-sized mailing 

 cages used. 



We are operating 

 four thousand stand- 

 ard full-sized three- 

 frame nuclei. 



Capacity and output 

 this season will be five 

 thousand 

 month. 



queens per 



We own, operate and 

 run for extracted hon- 

 ey in the states of California and Ne- 

 vada twelve thousand colonies of bees. 

 All of our breeders are selected queens 

 whose colonies headed these twelve 

 thousand colonies of bees last season. 



Prices and Terms 



Mated Untested Queens 



1 $1.00 



6 5.50 



12 10.00 



In larger quantity, 75c ea. 



TERMS. 



10% deposit on booking or- 

 der. Balance at time of 

 shipment. 



We guarantee safe ar- 

 rival of queens. Any 

 queen arriving dead at 

 destination will be re- 

 placed without charge. 



Eeferences by permis- 

 sion: The A. I. Eoot 

 Company of Califor- 

 nia, No. 52 Main St., 

 San Francisco, Cali- 



fornia, and No. 1824 



East 15th Street, Los 

 Angeles, California ; The Western Hon- 

 ey Bee, No. 121 Temple Street, Los 

 Angeles, California. 



We respectfully solicit your patronage. 



WESTERN BEE FARMS CORPORATION 



(Principal)- 



WESTERN HONEY CORPORATION 

 WESTERN CITRUS HONEY CORPORATION 



(Associated Corporations) \ 



GENERAL, OFFICES. 



Claus Spreckels Building, No. 703 Market Street, San Francisco, California. 



