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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



May, 1922 



FOR SALE — 200 colonies of the ce'cbrated 

 Moore strain of leather-colored Italians. They are 

 in Langstroth hives, combs all built on wired foun- 

 dation. All have tested queens less than one year 

 old. No disease among or near them. Price in lots 

 of one to 50, $12.00 each; ,50 to 100, $11.50 each; 

 100 or more, $1100 per colony. Elmer Hutchin- 

 son & Son. Lake Oity, Mich. 



TWO-FRAME nuclei, $3.25; three-frame nuclei, 

 $4.00 ; two-pound package bees one frame emerg- 

 ing bees and honey which is equal to a pound of 

 bees, $3.50 each; untested three-banded Italian 

 queen, $1.00 each. I guarantee safe arrival and 

 furnish health certificate. May and June delivery. 

 This is my last advertisement for this season. C. 

 A. Mayeux, Hamburg, La. 



CONNECTICUT queens. Highest grade 3-banded 

 Italians ready June 1. Select untested $1.25 each; 

 6, $6.50; 12, $12.00; 50. $47.50; 100, $90. Two 

 lbs. bees with queen, $5.00; 3 lbs. with queen, 

 $7.00. Two-frame nuclei with queen, $5.50; 3- 

 frame with queen. $7.50. Select virgin queens 

 (not culls), 50c each, $45.00 per 100. No disease 

 -and satisfaction guaranteed. A. E. Crandall, Ber- 

 lin, Conn. 



MAY delivery, one, two and three pound pack- 

 ages, $3.00. $4.00 and $5.00. Nuclei, $3.00, $4.25 

 and $5.50, with select untested Italian queens. Spe- 

 cial orders solicited. Select untested three-band 

 queens, April and May, $1.25, 6 or more $1.00 

 each. 20% books order. State health certificate. 

 Safe arrival and satisfaction guaranteed. Address 

 Apalachicola, Fla., office. Tupelo Honey Co., Co- 

 lumbia. Ala. 



FOR SALE— 25 to 40 colonies Italian bees with 

 tested Italian queens in 10-frame Dovetailed stand- 

 ard hives, most new and were painted, Hoffman 

 frames and combs wired, per colony, $15.00. Lib- 

 eral discount on 25 or more colonies. Also 10 wood- 

 and-wire queen-excluding boards, new, 60c each: 

 25 wood-and-wire queen-excluding boards used 

 two years, 50c each, for 10-frame hives. S. Coul- 

 thard, 528 S. Washington St., Hastings, Mich. 



LAST fall I had selected and tested six queens. 

 Will use them as breeders this season in my queen 

 yard. Their surplus honey capacity is from 216 

 ibs. to 288 lbs. each. I guarantee that every 

 queen bought of me in 1922 is to be the daughter 

 of one of these queens. Bees are three-banded. 

 Mated, in June. $1.25 each; 6, $7.00; 12, $13.50: 

 25 or more. $1.00 each. After July 1, $1.00 each 

 straight. Julius Victor. Martinsville. N. Y. 



PACKAGE BEES — Several hundred 2-lb. pack- 

 ages three-banded Italian bees, with untested 

 queens, for May delivery at only $4.00 per pack- 

 age in lots of 10 or more. From a noted breeder 

 in Alabama. 500 colonies to draw from which 

 should easily produce 1000 2-lb. packages during 

 May. I offer them at this low quantity price to 

 close them all out during this month. A good buy 

 Safe delivery. Address with remittance, E. T> 

 Townsend, Marksville, La. 



FOR SALE — 100% queens bred from extra- 

 select Jay Smith breeder. Larger queens from my 

 cell builders reinforced with hatching brood and 

 mated in standard frame nuclei. I guarantee safe 

 arrival and entire satisfaction and that every 

 queen lays before being caged. Also package bees. 

 I am after a name and reputation. Give me a 

 trial. Select untested. 1. $1.25: 6. $7.00; 12 

 $13.00; 25 to 100. $1 00 each. H. Pet-rman. R 

 P. D., Lathrop, Calif. 



GOOD queens advertise themselves. It takes 

 expensive advertising to sell noor queers and if 

 you don't believe it try it. We believed in for- 

 mer years w" had the best three-banded queens 

 obtainable. We still believe it. Our customers 

 also tell us the same. Trv a few. We have dronpcd 

 the price in reach of all this year. We will have 

 a few virgins for 50c when we have a surplus of 

 them We can furnish either from imported or 

 Americanized mothers. Untested. $1.00; selected. 

 $l-.25: tested, $2.00; selected, $2.50. F, M. Rus 

 sell, Eo.xbury, Ohio. 



BRIGHT ITALIAN QUEENS, $1.00 each, 107r 

 less in dozen lots. Pure mating, safe arrival and 

 reasonable satisfaction guaranteed in U. S. and 

 Canada. Write us for j)rices on package bees. We 

 have them in season. Graydon Bros., Rt. 4, Green- 

 ville, Ala. 



LARGE, HARDY, PROLIFIC QUEENS — Three- 

 band Italians and Goldens. Pure mating and safe 

 arrival guaranteed. We ship only queens that are 

 top notchers in size, prolificness and color. After 

 June 1 prices as follows: Untested. $1.25 each; 

 6 for $7.00; select untested, $1.50 each; 6 for 

 $8.50; select tested. $3.00 each. Special prices on 

 larger quantities. Queens clipped free on request. 

 Health certificate with each shipment. Buckeye 

 Queens, Zoarville, Ohio. 



FOR SALE — Two-frame nuclei Italian bees, 

 with tested Italian queen, delivery May 1 by ex- 

 press f. o. b. here, $7.50 each. Terms. $2.00 down, 

 balance ten days before shipping date. These 

 queens were reared last August from very choice 

 Italian stock, and big producers. Order early as 

 we have set a limit on number of nuclei we will 

 sell this season. First come, first served. Largest 

 apiary .in Westchester County, Spahn Bros., Pleas- 

 antville, Westchester Co., N. Y. 



PACKAGE BEES — I offer for sale 1000 2-lb. 

 packages Italian bees with untested queens for 

 June or July delivery, from Penn., at only $4.00 

 per package in 10-package lots or more. Order 

 this lot of bees near home and save a large ex- 

 press bill. 500 colonies which should easily pro- 

 duce 1000 packages during the season. This is 

 a fine lot of three-banded bees at a living price 

 and should sell at once. Safe delivery. Address 

 with remittance, E. D. Townsend, Marksville, La. 



QUEENS AND PACKAGE BEES — March 1 

 finds us ready for shipping. Let us book you for 

 short notice shipping. Bees and queens for your 

 unpacking time. We have ,iust added 1200 colo- 

 nies of bees to our business in Mesa, Ariz., with 

 our Mr. Jas. Lisonbee where weather and spring 

 conditions are ideal for March and April package 

 bees. All queens will be shipped from our large 

 queen yards at Sandia, Texas, where we breed our 

 pedigreed strain of three-band leather-colored 

 queens from tested honey-producing mothers, and 

 8 miles out we breed our special golden queens 

 that produce bees solid yellow to the tip. Very 

 gentle, jirolific and good honey-getters. 1 untested 

 queen, $1.50; 25 or more, $1.25 each; 1 select 

 untested queen, $1.70; 25 or more, $1.40 each; 1 

 select tested queen, $3.00: tested breeder. $5.00. 

 1-lb. package bees, $2.25; 25 or more, $2.15; 1 2- 

 ib. package bees, $3.75; 50 to 100, $2,60 each. 

 Larger .rize quoted on request, also parcel post 

 Tiackages. Safe arrival guaranteed. Send all or- 

 ders to Dr. White Bee Company. Sandia. Texas 



QUEENS AND PACKAGE BEES — Bright, three- 

 banded Italian. We are now booking orders for 

 the season of 1922. Shipments of queens and 

 package bees this year commenced on March 15. 

 All queens are mated in standard full-sized nuclei. 

 We ojjerate four thousand standard full-sized nu- 

 clei. Capacity and outp^it of queen yards this 

 season five thousand queens per month. We own. 

 operate and run for extracted honey in the states 

 of California and Nevada twelve thousand colo- 

 nies of bees. All of our breeders are selected 

 queens whose colonies led these twelve thousand 

 colonies of bees last season. Better selection of 

 breeders cannot be equaled or had anywhere. We 

 have the capacity and output of queens and 

 package bees to make shipments promptly as 

 and when promised. We gxiarantee safe arrival 

 of queens and package bees. Prices — Mated, un- 

 tested queens: 1. $1.00; 6. $5.50; 12, $9 60: 13 

 to 99, 75c each; 100 or more, 70c each. Package 

 Bees- — -Write for special price. Terms. 10 per cent 

 deposit on booking order; balance at time of ship- 

 ment. See our large advertisement in this maga- 

 zine. Western Bee Farms Cornoration (Princi- 

 pal) ; Western Honey Corporation and Western 

 Citrus Hnnev Cornoration C Associated Corpora- 

 tions). Clans" Snreckels Buildinc. No. 703 Market 

 Street, S.an Francisco. California. 



