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AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL 



January 



Are Now Booking Orders for 1918 Spring Delivery 



Twenty-two years of Select Breeding gives us Bees of Highest Quality and Vitality. 



Largest Package Shippers and Queen Breeders in the South. 



1500 Colonies of Bees and 1500 Nuclei 



10.000 Pounds of Bees 



Annual Capacity 



Italian Queens, 15.000 



SAFE ARRIVAL AND SATISFACTION WE GUARANTEE 



Our Circular and Price List for 1918 is Now Ready to Mail. 



M. C. BERRY <& CO.. Hayneville. Alabama. U. S. A. 



NOTICE! 

 Beekeepers' Supplies 



C. We are now located in our new plant, equipped with the 

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C We can save you money, no matter how large or how small 

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C. We are also equipped to render your Wax from old comb 

 and cappings. Our charge is only 5 cents per pound for the 

 Wax rendered. Our steam press extracts every particle of wax 

 possible to get. 



C Give us a chance to bid on your wants. Write for cata- 

 logue today. All correspondence cheerfully answered. 



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AVOCA, NEW YORK 



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By 

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JAY SMITH 



11 59 DeWolf. St. 



Vincennes, Ind. 



Three-Banded Italian Queens and Bees 



I am now booking orders for spring deliv- 

 ery of my best superior breeders. They are 

 gentle, bustlers; winter well, not inclined to 

 swarm. There has never been any disease in 

 my apiaries. Untested, 75c; 0, $4; 12, $7.60 

 100, $00. Select untested, 90c; 6, $5.25; 12 

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 queens are wanted with pound packages, add 

 queens at prices quoted above. Five per cent 

 discount on all orders received before Feb- 

 ruary 1. I guarantee safe arrival and perfect 

 satisfaction. S. D. CHEATHAM, 



Route No. 4, Greenville, AJa. 



