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Price List of 



Bees amd Q^^^'^^ 



Home-bred Italian Queens 



Oct. to June. June to Oct. 



Untested queen $1.25 $1.00 



Select untested queen 1.50 1.25 



Tested queen 3.50 2.00 



Select tested queen 3.50 3.00 



Breeding queen — _. 6.00 5.00 



Select breeding queen 9.00 7.50 



Extra select breeding queen, one year old 12.00 10.00 



Imported Italian Queens 



Best imported queen $5.00 Fair imported queen $3.00 



SotitKern-bred Italian Queens, 



For those who desire to get pure Italian stock at a moderate pi'ice, we are pre- 

 pared to furnish queens direct from our breeders in the South at following scale of prices: 



Oct. to June. June to Oct. 



Untested queen $1.00 $ .75 



Select untested queen 1.25 1.00 



Tested queen 1.75 1.50 



Select tested queen 3.00 2.50 



5-banded Italians, Carniolans, or Caucasians 



These will be furnished at the same prices as our home-bred Italian queens 



Nuclei and Full Colonies 



We are prepared to furnish one, two, and three frame nuclei and full colonies of 

 bees in eight-frame Dovetailed hives or Danzenbaker hives. The nuclei are put up in 

 light shipping-boxes made of basswood, the sides of which are only three- sixteenths 

 inch thick, and the ends one-half inch. The top and bottom are covered with wire 

 cloth. This makes a very light package, affords plenty of ventilation, and is strong 

 enough to stand shipping from 500 to 1000 miles. The bees so put up almost invari- 

 ably go through in good order with little or no loss. 



"Wbat Can be Done witb Our Nuclei 



Any of our nuclei, even the one-frame, will make good strong colonies by fall if 

 properly handled. 



Prices of Nuclei 



* Oct. to June. June to Oct. 



One-frame nucleus, without queen $ 3.00 $ 2.00 



Two-frame nucleus, without queen 4.50 3.00 



Three-frame nucleus, without queen 5.50 3.50 



Colony in eight-frame Dovetailed hive, no queen 10.00 ' 7.50 



Colony in ten-frame Danzenbaker hive, no queen 11.00 8.00 



Colony in ten-frame Dovetailed hive, no queen 12.00 9.00 



Purchaser should select a queen from the list above for each nucleus and include 

 the price of queen. 



Where a customer desires queen's wings clipped a charge of 25 cts. extra will be made. 



tDhe A. I. Root Co. ^ Medina, Ohio. 



