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AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL 



Feb 



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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 

 latest machinery for making Supplies. Write for catalogue, 

 which will be ready for mailing in January. 



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

 your order is. A trial will convince you — Quality First. 



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. 



THE M. C. SILSBEE CO. 



AVOCA, NEW YORK 



A NEW BOOK 



Our Backdoor Neighbors 



By 

 FRANK C. PELLETT 



"I have read 'Our Backdoor Neighbors' with great pleasure, and 

 my small boys also liked it very much. The chapters on hawks are 

 certainly a most valuable and unique contribution to ornithology, and 

 one, I should say, which will not be duplicated for many a long day. 

 No one could help reading the chapter on squirrels, the skunk and 

 the rabbit, once they had begun them. 



"How many hours and how much careful observation this book 

 represents no one but a naturalist can guess. Such books do an un- 

 told amount of good in awakening a new interest in nature and in 

 leading others to study and observe. It is upon the study of nature 

 that the progress of the human race depends. 



"JOHN H. LOVELL, Waldoboro, Maine." 



Cloth, 210 pages, profusely illustrated with photos from life. 



Price, postage paid, $1.50 



AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL, Hamilton, Illinois 



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Seed Book 



and Packet Flower Seed FREE 



FOR 30 years I have sold reliable seedi, 

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HIGH GRADE 



Italian Queens 



And Bees by the Pound 



JAY SMITH 



1159 De Wolf. 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, hustlers; winter well, not inclined to 

 swarm. There has never been any disease in 

 my apiaries. Untested, 75c; 0, $4; 18, $7.60 

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

 $10; 100, $75. Tested, $1.25; 0, $7.60; 12 

 $14. Select tested, $2 each. One-pound pack 

 age without queen, $1.25; 12. $14. Two-pound 

 package without queen, $2.25; 12, $26. When 

 queens arc 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, Ala. 



