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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



Aug. 15 



thousands of people for many weeks. At 

 Grass Lake they said that a woman and 

 her little girl made S4.50 in a day picking 

 berries. 



W. D. Soper, near Jackson, Mich., is 

 one of the veterans in our ranks. Besides 

 the bees, he is quite a strawberry-man, 

 and has a considerable farm. The auto- 

 mobile, with its back seat for the children, 

 proved quite entertaining wherever we 

 went. 



Alma, Mich., is a very pretty and pro- 

 gressive town. Its principal wealth is the 

 result of the active work of a millionaire, 

 now 80 j'ears old, or more, though still ac- 

 tive and full of business. We are greatly 

 indebted to Mr. Wyman Stanton for show- 

 ing us around, and explaining things to us 

 by the use of a beautiful up-to-date gravel 

 road, on which we could make a mile in 

 three minutes without any trouble. After we 

 had entertained the Stanton children with 

 the automobile, they entertained us with 

 music on the organ while we partook of an 

 excellent supper. One of his little girls, I 

 should say not more than ten or twelve 

 years old, played some marches that I had 

 either heard years ago or else something 

 much like them, that made me thank God 

 again and again for the glimpses he has 

 seen fit to give me of the rural homes 

 throughout pur land. I looked at the child 

 in mute wonder that it was possible for one 

 so young to touch the keys with such won- 

 drous skill and feeling. I often feel sad to 

 think I can't appreciate classical music; 

 but I don't feel sad a bit when I realize 

 how much I enjoy hearing the children 

 play, especially where childish voices are 

 mingled with the childish effort on the in- 

 strument. 



P'riend Stanton expects to give his chil- 

 dren a musical education; but I am really 

 afraid that I should enjoy their playing 

 more as it is now than after they have been 

 to the schools. 



Queens == 1903 == Queens. 



We have ten different yards five to twenty miles 

 apart, where Italians, Cyprians, Holylaiids, Carnio- 

 lans, and Albinos, are bred for business. Tested 

 queens, $1..50; 88.00 for 6; $15.00 per dozen. Untested, 

 $1.00 each; $.5.00 for 6 ; 89.00 per dozen. Our best and 

 finest breeders, $5.00 each. One and two frame nuclei 

 a specially. Bees and Queens in any quantity to suit 

 purcha.ser. Safe arrival and reasonable satisfaction 

 guaranteed. ORDER "The Southland Queen," $1,00 

 per year. Send for sample copy and our 1903 catalog; 

 tells how to raise queens and keep bees for profit. 

 Root's Supplies. 



The Jennie Atchley Co., Box 18, Beeville, Tex. 



Red Clover and Three and Five- 

 Banded Queens. 



Untested, 65 cts.; 2 for $1.00. 

 Fine tested queens, $1.00 each. 

 Remember we guarantee our 

 queens to work red clover as 

 well as white clover. Get my 

 circular. Plenty of queens, and 

 go by return mail. Fifty and 

 one hundred, special prices. 

 a. ROUTZAHN, BIQLERVILLE, ROUTE 3. PENN. 



Long Tongues Valuable 



South as well as North. 



How Moore's strain of Italians roll in honey down 

 in Texas. 



Hutto, Tex., Nov. 19, 1902. 

 J. P. Moore. — Dear Sir: — I wish to write you in re- 

 gard to queens purchased of you. I could have writ- 

 ten sooner, but I wanted to test them thoroughly and 

 see if they had those remarkable qualities of a three- 

 banded Italian bee. I must confess to > ou I am more 

 surprised every day as I watch them. They simply 

 "roll the honey in." Itseems that they get honey 

 where others are idle or trying to rob; anci for gentle- 

 ness of handling, I have never seen the like, hriend 

 E. K. Root was right when he said j-our bees have the 

 longest tongues; for they get honey where others fail. 

 I will express my thanks for such queens. I am more 

 than pleased. I will stock my out-apiaries next spring 

 with your queens. Yours trulj', 



Henry Schmidt. 



The above is pretty strong evidence that red clover 

 is not the only plant which requires long tongued bees 

 to secure the greatest quantity of nectar. 



Daughters of my 23-100 breeder, the prize-winner, 

 and other choice breeders : Untested, 7oc each; six, 

 $4.00; dozen, 87.50. Select untested, $1. CO each; six, $5; 

 dozen, $9.00. Safe arrival and satisfaction guaran- 

 teed. Circular free. I am now filling orders by re- 

 turn mail, and shall probably be able to do so till the 

 close of the season. 



J. P. Moore, L. Box I, Morgan, Kentucky. 



Pendleton County. 



Laws' Leather-colored Queens. 



Laws' Improved Golden Queens. 



Laws' Holy Land Queens. 



W. H. Laws. — Your queens have proved to be excel- 

 lent. My apiary stocked with your 2>ai'/^^r queens are 

 a sight to behold during a honey-flow, and the Goldens 

 are beyond description in the line of beauty, \ours 

 are the best for comb honey I ever saw. I want more 

 this spring. — E. A. Ribble, Roxton, Tex., Feb. ig, igoj. 



IV. H. Laws: — The 75 queens (l,eather) from you are 

 dandies. I introduced one into a weak nucleus in 

 May, and in September I took 285 lbs. of honey, leav- 

 ing 48 lbs for winter. My crop of honey last season 

 was 48,000 lbs. I write you for prices on 50 nuclei and 

 1.50 L,eather queens.— ^/oi^/A Farnsworth, Idaho Falls, 

 Idaho, Feb. i6, igoj. 



Prices of Queens: Each, 81.00; 12, $10.00. Breeders, 

 extra fine, guaranteed, each $;xOO. Send for price list. 



W. H. Laws, Beeville, Texas. 



The Best Honey Queens 



ON RECORD 



Are those reared by The HONEY & BEE CO., Will 

 Atchley, Manager. We breed six distinct races in 

 their purity, from 6 to 3.5 miles apart, queens ready to 

 go now. We make a specialty of one, two, and three 

 frame nuclei and queens in large lots. Write for 

 prices, they will astonish you. Untested queens of 

 either race. 7.5c each; $4.25 for six; $8.00 per dozen. 

 Tested, 81.50 to $:5 00 each. Breeders, the best that 

 money can buy, 85 00 each. We guarantee safe arrival 

 and perfect satisfaction. Address all orders to 



The BEE & HONEY CO., 

 Beeville, Box 79. Bee Co., Tex. 



