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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



Apr. 1 



Every Bee - Keeper Knows 

 the Worth of a Good Queen 



Knows the worth of a good strain 

 of bees, and also knows how 

 worthless is a poor queen and in- 

 ferior bees, j^ Try our strain 

 of three- banded Italians. They 

 are bred for business, and will not 

 disappoint you. Home-bred and 

 imported mothers. Tested, $1.00 

 each; untested, 75 cts. each; $8.00 

 per dozen. . Send for price list. 



J. w. K. SHAW & CO. m 



Loreauville, 



Louisiana 



Tennessee bred Queens 



From £.xtra Select MotHers 



Three-band from dark leather imported; 

 Moore's long tongue or my own; Golden 

 from Laws, Doolittle's, or my own; Cauca- 

 sians and Carniolans from direct imported. 

 No disease. Contracts with dealers a spe- 

 cialty. Apiaries from 3% to 7 miles apart. 

 Write name on postal, and get circular and 

 what others say. 



JOHN M. DAVIS 

 (Spring Hill, Tennessee, \3. S. A. 



RBAB. YOUR O^WN QUE-ENS 



If you desire to rear queens by a natural, practical 

 method, send for a copy of my book, "IMPROVED 

 QUEEN-REARING." The outfit will cost you little or 

 nothing, and the book will tell you how to prepare all 

 that is needed. Price, by mail, 50c per copy. Address 



Henry Alley, - - Wen ham, Mass. 



California Sage Queens 



For the coming season I am breeding choice Italian 

 queens from best honey-gathering strains of bees that 

 are hustlers. No disease of any kind has ever been in 

 or near my apiary. Prices: Choice untested, $1.00; six, 

 $5.00; dozen, $9.00. Tested, $1.50; six, $8.00. No small 



or inferior queens sent out. 



J "W. GRIFFIN 

 528 Gladys A.V., L>os A.n^eles, Cal. 



TAYLOR'S ITALIAN QUEENS FOR 1906 



Leather- colored and golden Italians. I have made it 

 a specialty for 18 years to breed for the best honey-gath- 

 erers of these races, and I have not been able to get any 

 other stock that will store as much honey as my strains, 

 gentle and beauties. Untested, 75 cts. each; $8.00 per 

 dozen. Tested, $1.00, or 111.00 a dozen. Select tested, 

 $1.50. Breeders, $3 00 to ?5.00 each. I guarantee safe 

 arrival on all queens. Untested Caucasians, queens, 

 $1.00 each. Send your orders to f*-^ 



>^ ^ J. 'W. Taylor, Beeville, Texas 



QUEENS DIRECT 

 FROM ITALY 



Fine, reliable. English price list sent on application. 

 Beautiful results obtained last year. OUR MOTTO- 

 " Whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do 

 ye even so to them." 



MALAN BROTHERS, Luserna, San Giovanni. Italy. 



COLLINGDALE APIARY 



J. R. Rambo, Collingdale, Delaware Co., Penn. 



Breeder of Caucasian and Golden Italian queens; Ital- 

 ians bred from stock received from Swarthmore; Cau- 

 casians bred from an imported queen. Queens reared 

 and mated in separate yards, six miles apart. Satisfac- 

 tion and safe arrival guaranteed. Prices furnished on 

 application. I am booking orders now for the com- 

 ing season, and will fill same in rotation a,s received. 



Quality Queens 



Are the Best Italians yet. 



Send for circular. >?>P<^'^^>?>^»^>^ 



H. H. JKVSOK, 

 182 Friend St., • Boston, Mass. 



GOI.DEN ITALIAN QUEENS 



For season of 1906. Same old stock. 

 Write for circular, prices, etc. 



J. B. CASE, Port Orange, Fla. 



1906 Italian and Caucasian Queens. Price list now 

 ready. Write E. E.LAWRENCE, Doniphan, Mo. 



DRICES for Maturing Brood this Season will be 

 same as in 1904, when I practically sold out my api- 

 ary. Will furnish queens at equally low prices, untest- 

 ed or tested, during May and June. Brood-combs 

 wired; in nuclei or in bulk, to reinforce weak colonies. 

 B. F. AVERILL, MowardsvUle, Va. 



I. J. STRINGHAM 



OF 105 PARK PLAGE 



furnishes every thing a bee-keeper uses. Strong 

 colony of bees, with tested Italian queen, in Dov'd 

 hive complete, $8.75; in a chaff hive, $9.50. Three- 

 frame nucleus, with Italian queen, $4.25. Silk- 

 faced bee-veil, 40 cts. postpaid. Italian queens, 

 $1 00. Catalog of bee-supplies free. 



Apiaries, Glen Cove, Long Island. 



A. H. Reeves, Perch River, Jefferson Co., N. Y. 



DISTRIBUTOR OF ROOT'S GOODS FOR 



NORTHERN NEW YORK 



If You "Wa-nt tKe Bee - booR 



that "covers the whole apicultural 

 field more completely than any other 

 published," send $1.20 to :: :: 



Prof. A.. J. CooK, Claremont, 6alif. 



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