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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



June 1 



Now is the Time to Plan 



for the coming season, and you are bound to need queens to replace those that are 

 old and worn out. Many of my customers have written me that the queens bought 

 of me were the only ones that gave any surplus the past poor season. You had bet- 

 ter plan to supply yourself with a lot of those fine yoimg queens from the Laws 

 apiaries, and double your crop of honey. 



I AM BREEDING THE LEATHER AND GOLDEN ITALIANS, 



also the Holy Lands. So many calls have come for Camiolans that I have added this splendid race to my 

 list, and there is no doubt that the Camiolan, or the Cami-Italian cross, will cap their honey whiter than 

 any of the Eastern races. I am not only prepared to furnish you with the best bees and queens in existence, 

 but in any quantities, large or small, from one to a thousand queens. Nuclei and full colonies in season. 

 I also offer another car of bees the coming season. 



PRICES: Queens, each, $1.00; six for $5.00. Breeders, each, $3.00. Write for quantity lots. 



W. H. LAWS, BEEVILLE, BEE CO., TEXAS. 



Caucasian - and - Italian - Queens 



j^ A? j^ j^ j^ J0^ from California 



Prices: CAUCASIAN- One tested, $3.00; one best breeding, $6.00; one imported from Caucasus, 

 $7.00. ITALIAN— One untested, $1.00, six for $5.50, 12 for $10.00; one tested, $1.50; one best breed- 

 ing, $5.00. Caucasians bred from the best imported breeding queens. Italians breid from breeding 

 queens we procure from principal breeders of this country who have the best honey -gatherers. 

 Nuclei an-" full colonies of bees. Send for particulars, and see our adv. in Gleanings, February 1st. 



A. £. Titoff, loamosa, San Bernardino Co., California 



CAUCASIAN QUEENS! 



For beginners, the timid, and the city bee-keeper 

 Not stingless, but gentle. With this race many will 

 master the art of handling bees I breed High-grade 

 Italian Queens also. The demand for these queens is 

 grreat; the supply is limited. Write for particulars to- 

 day. Address 



Robert B. McCain, Yorkville, Ills. R. F. D. 

 I<.ose - Ivawn - Queens 



$25*00 IN PRIZES. 



For the largest number of sections No. 1 comb honey 

 produced by a colony headed by one of our " Pure 

 Gold " queens before September 15th, 1906, $10.00 cash. 

 For the second largest. $7.50 cash. For the third larg- 

 est, $5.00 cash. For the fourth largest, $2.50 cash. In 

 addition to the above offer we will pay 20 cts. per 

 pound for all prize honey for exhibition purposes. 



Select untested "Pure Gold" queens, $1.00. Select 

 tested "Pure Gold" queens, $2.00. Select breeding 

 queens, $6 00. Our very finest extra select tested breed- 

 ers, in 2-fr. nucleus, f. o. b., Lincoln, Neb., $10.00. We 

 ship in June, 200 " Pure Gold " queens to one customer. 

 Caucasians j^ Carnlolans j^ Red Clover Italians 

 Rose Lawn Apiaries, Station C, Lincoln, Nebr. 



California Sage Queens 



Old reliable Italian stock from well-known breeders. 

 Bees that get the honey if it's in the field. One select 

 untested, $1.00; six, $5.00; tested, $1.50. Write for a 

 ■circular. 



J W. GRIFFIN 

 528 Glady^s Av., I^os Angeles, Cal. 



TKe Best Stock 



Nice three-banded Italians that are guaranteed to 

 please, or money refunded. The Robey queens now go 

 to nearly all parts of the globe. They are being used by 

 many of the largest honey-producers of this and other 

 countries, who pronounce them to be very superior 

 strain of bees. I have spent 21 years in building up 

 this strain of bees. Warranted purely mated, in any 

 ■quantity, 60 cts. each; selected warranted, 75 cts. each 

 I^. H. Robey-, VTortHin^tWn, XV. Va. 



IT MrON'T PAY YOU 



to keep those poor colonies when young vigorous 

 queens given to them now will increase your honey 

 crop many times. Italian queens only. I rear my 

 queens carefully, guarantee them good and purely 

 mated, or replaced free on notice. You will find my 

 queens will give you satisfaction- No bee disease here. 

 Brices: Untested, $1.00; six, $4.50; dozen, $8.00; tested, 

 $1.50; six, $8.00; dozen. $14.50: breeders, $5.00. For 

 larger quantities write for prices. 



M. D. WHICHER, Los Ollvos, Cal. 



Untested Qu.eens! 



Golden Itailian 



75 cts. each; six for $4.00; an extra 

 fine one for $L00. Warranted pure- 

 ly mated and good queens. . . . 



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J. B. Case, Port Orange, Fla. 



1906 Italian and Caucasian Queens Price list now 

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



Superior Stock 



I make a specialty of long-tongue 

 Italian, Carniolsui, and Caucasian, 



Rearing only from best stock obtain- 

 able. My Italian queens are unexcel- 

 led; my Carniolans and Caucasians from 

 best imported queens. All races bred 

 in separate yards to insure purity. A 

 postal will bring my price list for 1906. 



CHARLES KOEPPEN 



Fredericksburg, Va. 



