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May, 1922 



I [QUEENS 



= I Bright Three-Banded 

 ^ I Italian. 



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Package Bees 



Prices and Terms 



MATED UNTESTED QUEENS 



1 $1.00 



6 5.50 



12 9.60 



13 to 99, each. . .75 

 100 or more, ea. .70 



PACKAGE BEES. 

 Write for special Price. 



TERMS. 



10% deposit on hooking order. 



Balance at time of shipment. 



We are now booking orders for queens 

 and package bees for the season of 1922. 



Sliipments of queens and package bees 

 tliis 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 nuclei. 



Capacity and output of queen yards this 

 season is five thousand queens per month. 



We own, operate and run for extracted 

 honey in the states of California and Ne- 

 vada twelve thousand colonies of bees. All 

 of our breeders are selected queens whose 

 colonies led those twelve thousand colonies 

 of bees last season. Better selection of 

 breeders cannot be equaled or had any- 

 where. 



We have the capacity and output of 

 queens and package bees to make shipments 

 promptly as and when promised. 



All queens shipped by us in six-hole mail- 

 ing cages. No small-sized mailing cages used. 



We guarantee safe arrival of queens and 

 package bees. Any queens or package bees 

 arriving dead at destination will be replaced 

 without charge. 



Eeferenees by permission: The A. I. Eoot 

 Company of California, No. 52 Main Street, 

 Ran Francisco, California, and No. 1824 E. 

 Fifteenth Street, Los Angeles, California; 

 The Diamond Match -Company, Apiary De- 

 partment, Chico, California; The Western 

 Honey Bee, No. 121 Temple Street, Los An- 

 geles, California; Bees and Honey, Hutch- 

 inson Building, Oakland, California; The 

 Beekeepers ' Review, Lansing, Michigan. 



Banking references upon request. 



We respectfull.y solicit your patronage. 



I WESTERN BEE FARMS CORPORATION | 



= (PRINCIPAL) ^ 



B Westen Honey Corporation :: Western Citrus Honey Corporation M 



= (ASSOCIATED CORPORATIONS) ^ 



= General Offices: Claus Spreckels Building, No. 703 Market Street, San Francisco, California. ^ 



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