1907 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



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I must say to my friends, please do not send me 

 any more orders for queens this season, as my 

 health is so poor I find it impossible to continue 

 que-en-rearing. Thanks to all my friends for their 

 very liberal patronage. W. W. Ckim. Pekin, Ind. 



Improved Italian Queens now ready; nuclei and 

 colonies about May 10, Danzenbaker or L. frames; 20 

 years a queen-breeder; 500 colonies to draw from. 

 Circular and testimonials free. 



Quikin-the-Quben-Breeder, Bellevue, Ohio. 



ANGEL'S Golden Beauties and his bright three- 

 banded Italian Queens have but few equals and no su- 

 periors. A tine large queen of either stra,in for $1.00; 

 an extra select breeder for $2.50. I have had 12 years' 

 experience at queen-breeding. Address 



Samuel M. Angel, Route 1, Evansville, Ind. 



JOSEPH HORNE COMPANY, 



PITTSBURG, PA. 



Rhadame 

 Tussah Silk, 



40c Yd. 



A washable fabric, a mixture of silk and cot- 

 ton. 



For afternoon dresses and evening costumes, 

 for party dresses, it has no rival among inex- 

 pensive fabrics. 



It is 27 inches wide and the patterns are neat 

 little jacquard designs. 



The regular price of this material is 65c. 



We bought 22,500 yards, and the weaver will 

 not make any more unless ihe retail price ad- 

 vances over 65c. 



Ctlors are champagne, light blue, pink, nile, 

 golden brown. There is also black. 



Well mail samples with pleasure, but if we 

 were in your plai-e we d S'-nd right awav for a 

 dress pattern of this choice iLexpensive material. 



BARNES' 



HANDand FOOT POWER 



MACHINERY 



This cut represents our 

 combined circular saw. 

 which is made for bee- 

 keepers' use in the con- 

 struction of their hives, 

 sections, etc. 



MACHINES ON TRIAL 

 Send for illustrated cat- 

 alog and prices. Address 

 W. F. &JNO. BARNES CO. 



646 Ruby Street, 

 ROCKFORD. ILLINOIS. 



Convention Notices. 



The fall meeting of the Middlesex Bee-keepers' As- 

 sociation will be held io the City Hall, Liondon, Ont.. 

 on Saturday, Nov. 2. morning aad afternoon sessions. 

 An interesting time is expected. 



E. T. Bbainard, Sec. 



I write to say that arrangements have been made 

 for holding the annual convention of the National 

 Bee keepers' Association in the audience-room in the 

 State Department of Public lostruciion in the new 

 State capitol building, at Harrisburg. Pa., October 30 

 and 31. There will be a room f. r exhibition purposes, 

 and an audience-room adjoining. If the exhibitors 

 desire they may ship their material in my care. The 

 headquarters will be the Uoiced States Hotel on Mar- 

 ket St , which will give special rates of $1,25 and $1,50 

 per day. H. A. Surface 



Oct. 11. Economic Zoologist. 



The fourth annual meeting of the Pennsylvania 

 State Bee keepers' Association will be held at Ha'Tis- 

 burg, Oct. 29, the day before the National, ini the capi- 

 tol building. The first session will convene at 1 p m., 

 and be d>^voted to bu-iness. In th^; evening there will 

 be an informal meeting without any fixed program- 



The National and the United States Hotels and the 

 Hershey House have offered to accommodate those at- 

 tending the convention for $1..50 cents per day. The 

 Y. W. C. A. will entertain the ladies for 75 cents per 

 day. Owing to the unsfjttled rate conditions no reduc- 

 tion in railroad fare will be granted to us this ytar. 

 A cordial invitation is extended to all who are inter- 

 ested in bees There will be exhibits of honey, and 

 all are invited to contribute to them. 



Franklin G. Fox, Sec. 



205 Ninth St., S. W., Washington, D. C. 



ANOTHER BEE-KEEPERS' ASSOCIATION ORGANIZED. 



On Friday, Sept. 13, 1907, in the booth of the apiari- 

 an display of H. S Duby, at the fairground of Kan- 

 kakee Co., met several bee-men and organized the 

 E istern Illinois and Western Indiana tJee-keepers' 

 Association, to h-ild a two-days convention in Kanka- 

 kee some time in December. J Roberts, of Watseka. 

 was elect' d pres dent and Ray Ensinger, of Kanka- 

 kee, secretary. Members of the Kankakee Business 

 Men's Commercial Club tendered the use of their fine 

 hall free of charge. The memuers of the committee 

 expect to make this convention equal to the North- 

 western io attendance and importance. Reduced rates 

 will be securtd at hotels, and a committet^ on recep- 

 tion will be appointed. Parties desiring information 

 should write to either of the offi 'ers named, or to the 

 undersigned. H. S. Ddby St. Anne, 111. 



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Root's ABC in German 



We have just been informed by our 

 printers that the work of printing the 

 A B C of Hee Culture in German has been 

 finished, and that in a few days 1000 cop- 

 ies will be in our hands for distribu'ion. 

 The price is $2 postpaid. Send in you r order 

 now if you wish a copy hot from the press. 



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