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I QUEENS, 



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QUEENS I 



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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. 



109r deposit on iDooking order. 



Balance at time of shipment. 



We are now booking orders for queens 

 anil package bees for the season of 1922. 



Sliipnients of queens and package bees 

 tliis 3^ear commenced on March 1.5, 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 

 witliout charge. 



Eeferences by permission: The A. I. Root 

 Company of California, No. 52 Main Street, 

 San Francisco, California, and No. 1824 E. 

 Fifteenth Street, Los Angeles, Calif orniji ; 

 The Diamond Match Company, Apiary De- 

 partment, Chieo, California; The Westerji 

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

 geles, California; Bees and Honey, Hutch- 

 inson Building, Oakland, California; The 

 Beekeepers' Eeview, Lansing, Michigan. 



Banking references upon request. 



We respectfully solicit your j)atronage. 



I WESTERN BEE FARMS CORPORATION 1 



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g Westen Honey Corporation :: Western Citrus Honey Corporation M 



^ (ASSOCIATED CORPORATIONS) ^ 



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



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