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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



June, 1922 



$35.00; ] nucleus, with queen, 3-frame, $4.75; 10 



nuclei, with queen, 3-frame, $41.25. V'e guarantee 



to ship on receipt of order with health certificate 



and safe delivery. GUARANTEE. The Home of 



Good Queens, Oscar Mayeux, Hamburg, La. 



QUEENS AND NUCLEI FOR SALE — Three- 

 banded Italians, one queen, $1.10; per dozen, 

 $10.00; 2-fr. nucleus with queen, $4.50; 3-fr. nu- 

 cleus and queen, $6.00. Will book orders for two 

 months for August and September delivery if 

 wanted at a cut price of 50c on nucleus and 10c 

 on queens. No disease. Orders filled at once. 50 

 swarms for sale delivered in September and Oc- 

 tober, at $10.00 each. Thanks in advance. Hickory 

 Shade Apiary, Otterville, Mo. 



FOR SALE — Three-banded queens and bees. 

 Dr. Miller and my own stock. Three-frame nuclei 

 and queen, $5.50; 1 lb. bees and queen, $2.75; 2 

 lbs. and queen, $5.00; 3 lbs. and queen, $6.25. All 

 good empties returned at my charges. Queens, 

 $1.25 each; 6 for $7.00; 12 for $13. 24 and over 

 at $1.00 each. Reared in the Hubam black belt 

 sweet clover section, Scotts Sta., Ala., by Curd 

 Walker, queen-breeder. 



I. F. MILLER'S STRAIN ITALIAN QUEEN 

 BEES — Northern-bred for business; from my best 

 SELECT BREEDERS; gentle, roll honey in. hardy, 

 winter well, not inclindeo to swarm, three-banded. 

 28 years breeding experience. Satisfaction guar- 

 anteed. Snfe arrival in U. S. and Canada. 1 un- 

 tested, $1.50; 6, $8.00; 12. $14.00; 1 select un- 

 tested, $1.75; 6. $9.00; 12, $17.00. 1 lb. bees. 

 $3.00; 2 lbs., $5.00; 3 lbs., $7.00. I. F. Miller, 

 Brookville, Pa., 183 Valley. 



FOR SALE — Two-frame nuclei Italian bees, 

 with tested Italian queen, delivery Mav 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- 

 antviile. Westchester Co., N. Y. 



FOR SALE — 250 to 350 colonies of fine Italian 

 bees, on good straight L. combs, with a full equip- 

 ment of supplies for extracted-honey production. 

 Also 47 acres land in Harrison County, Iowa, near 

 town; has about 20 acres fine natural basswood 

 grove. Has good improvements, esnecially for bee- 

 keening. Probably .as good an equipment as there 

 is in the state. This is a good paying business, 

 with outyards already established, everything 

 complete. Can give Ions: time on part of the 

 price, but would require $8000 or $9000 to swing 

 it. Any one having that much capital to invest in 

 a dandy country home and a paying business, will 

 find it by addressing E. S. Miles & Son, Dunlap, 

 Iowa. 



GOOD queens advertise themselves. It takes 

 expensive advertising to sell poor oueens and if 

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

 mer years we had the best three-banded queens 

 obtainable. We still believe it. Onr customers 

 also tell us the same. Try a few. We ha,ve dropped 

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

 a few vi'-gins for 50c when we have a surplus of 

 them. We can furnish either from imported or 

 Anioricanized mothers. Untested $1.00; selected. 

 $1 25- tested, S^'^.OO; selected, $2.50. F. M. Rus- 

 sell. Roxbury, Ohio. 



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. 

 ,A11 ai'eens are mated in standard full-sized nu- 

 clei We operate four thousand st.andard full-si^ed 

 nuclei. Capacity and output of queen ynnds this 

 season five thousand queens per monlh. We own 

 operate and run for extracted honey in the states 

 of California and Nevada twelve thousand colo- 

 nies of bees. A)} of 'ni"- breeders are selected' 

 (lueens whos° colonies led thep° twelve thousand 

 '■olonies of bees last season. Be*^ter selection of 

 breeders cannot be equaled or had anywhere. Wo 



have the capacity and output of queens and pack- 

 age bees to make shipments promptly as and 

 when promised. We guarantee safe arrival of 

 queens and package bees. Prices — Mated, untest- 

 ed 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 Corporation (Princi- 

 pal) ; Western Honey Corporation and Western 

 Citrus Honey Corporation (Associated Corpora- 

 tions), Claus Spreckels Building, No. 703 Market 

 Street, San Francisco, California. 



SPICER'S three-band Italian queens will be 

 ready to mail about May 20. If you are inter- 

 ested in improving your stock and getting larger 

 returns from your bees, head your colonies with 

 these queens. Untested, $1.25; 6, $7.00; 12, 

 $13.50. Tested, $2.50 each. Robt. B. Spicer, 

 Wharton, N. J. 



MISCELLANEOUS. 



FOR SALE — Soy beans and whipporwill pease, 

 $2.00 per bushel. W. L. Lyons. Decherd, Tenn. 



WANTED — Good reversible extractor, exchange 

 fine 25-20 Winchester Repeater, or will buy. Fred 

 Fisher. 3 Elmendorf St., Albany, N. Y. 



FOR SALE — Used honey cans in cases, good 

 condition. S. T. Fish & Co., 163 W. S. Water St., 

 Chicago, 111. 



TYPEWRITERS — All makes slightly used; $20 

 up. Easy payments. Free trial. Express prepaid. 

 Guaranteed two years. Payne Company, Rosedale, 

 Kansas. 



FOR SALE — Fine coon dog "pups," 3 months 

 old. Price, $10.00 to $15100 each, f. o. b. ex- 

 press. .\ddress. Old Coon Hunter O. H. Town- 

 send, Otsego, R. D. No. 2, Mich. 



MEDICINAL roots and herbs are very profitable 

 to grow. We especially recommend growing Golden 

 Seal, which with good care will yield as high as 

 $10,000 per acre for each crop. It takes several 

 years to mature but will average $1000 a year. 

 Special Crops, a monthly paper, tells how. Sample 

 copy, 10c. $1.00 per year. Address Special Crops 

 Pub. Co., Box "G," Skaneateles, N. Y. 



HELP WANTED 



WANTED — Man with some e.xperience to work 

 in our apiaries. State age. experience and wages. 

 Answer fullv in first letter. The Rocky Mountain 

 Bee Co., Box 1319, Billings, Mont. 



Special Notices by A. I. Root 



Hubam in Florida. 



On page 253 of our issue for April I said. "We 

 are going to sow it on our potato ground as fast 

 as the potatoes are dug." By the way, years ago 

 I made up my mind that I would stop telling what 

 I was going to do. but would try to confine my 

 remarks to what I had actiially done. As fast as 

 our potatoes were dug I Tint the ground in nice 

 trim and began sowintr Hubam. But we had a 

 long and severe drouth, with almost no rain at 

 all. and the ground became fearfully hot in the 

 middle of almost every day. Scarcely a seed 

 came up. Sometimes after a little shower a few 

 seeds would start up; but the hot sun killed 

 them. Dpring comparit'vely coo' wepther in No- 

 vember, December and Januarv there is no trouble 

 about getting it to grow; and, by the way. when 

 I left mv Florida home on the 26th of .April some 

 of my Hubam was over 9 feet tall. It stood the 

 drouth — that is. after the long tap root had got 

 away down — quite well for a time; but eventually 

 the drouth cut short the amount of Tioth bloom 

 and foliage. 



