GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



Apeil, 1922 



oAnnouncement 

 —to-- 



Queens 



Bright Three-Banded 

 Italians. 



Beekeepers 



We are now booking orders for 

 queens for the season of 1922. 

 Shipments of queens this year 

 commenced on March 15, 1922. 

 All queens are mated in standard 

 full-sized three-frame nuclei. 

 We are operating four 

 thousand standard full- 

 sized three-frame nu- 

 clei. 



Capacity and output 

 this season are five 

 thousand queens per 

 month. 



We own, operate and 

 run for extracted honey 

 in the States of Califor- 

 nia and Nevada twelve 

 thousand colonies of 

 bees. All of our breed- 

 ers are selected queens 

 whose colonies led these 

 twelve thousand colo- 

 nies of bees last season. 



Better selection of 



breeders cannot be 

 equaled or had anywhere. 

 We have the capacity and output 

 of queens to make shipments 



Prices and 

 Terms 



Untested Mated 

 Queens 



1 



6 



12 



.... ^1.00 

 .... ^5.50 

 .... ^9.60 

 In larger quantity 



75 cents each. 



In quantity of 100 



or more write for 



special price. 



Terms 



10 per cent deposit 



on Ijooking order. 



Balance at time of 



shipment. 



All queens shipped by us in six- 

 hole mailing cages. No small-sized 

 mailing cages used. 



We guarantee safe arrival of 



queens. Any queens arriving dead 



at destination will be 



replaced without 



charge. 



References by permis- 

 sion : The A. I. Root Co. 

 of California, No. 52 

 Main St., San Francisco, 

 California, and No. 1824 

 East Fifteenth Street, 

 Los Angeles, Califor- 

 nia ; The Diamond 

 Match Company, Api- 

 ary Department, Chico, 

 California ; The West- 

 ern Honey Bee, No. 121 

 Temple Street, Los An- 

 geles, California ; Bees 

 and Honey, Hutchinson 

 Building, Oakland, Cal- 

 ifornia ; The Beekeepers 

 Review, Lansing, Michigan. Bank- 

 ing references on request. 

 We respectfully solicit your pat- 



promptly as and when promised. ronage. 



Western ^ee Farms Corporation 



(PEINCIPAL) 



Western Honey Corporation — Western Citrus Honey Corporation 



(ASSOCIATED COBPORATIONS) 



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



