ISLAND BRED QUEENS 



Did you ever lie awalve niglits thinking what a fine thing it would be to 

 have your yard of bees isolated so far from neighbors, or wild bees that no 

 mixing would occur? You could then breed queens from your very best stock 

 and KNOW they would be mated with the vei-y stock you wanted. Don't you 

 see this would make it possible to select your breeding stock to suit yourself, 

 breeding the queen from superior stock, the drones from others. The 

 fact of the case, is, you would have this breeding proposition "under 

 your thumb." The REVIEW has made arrangements with a firm who 

 rear queens under identically the above condition, isolated on an island where 

 there are no bees to interfere, and we will offer our readers queens from this 

 stock during the coming season. This three-banded Italian stock is distinctly 

 a honey gathering strain, and is direct from colonies that gave a surplus of 

 300 lbs. per colony, during a twenty-four day flow. This strain of pure Ital- 

 ians have been carefully bred up under these favorable circumstances for 

 years, and without a doubt are much superior to any imported stock one can 

 buy. Now it costs money to move a yard of bees to an island for the sole 

 purpose of controlling the mating of queens, and it cannot be expected that 

 these purely mated high grade queens ran be sold at the price of ordinary stock. 

 Although the firm who are breeding these queens for us have a thousand 

 nuclei, or mating colonies, we look for a ''scramble" after these superior 

 queens this Spring and it behooves the party who expects to secure some of 

 these queens to order early. Order NOW and have the queens mailed later, 

 when you want them. We will begin mailing queens to our Southern trade the 

 first of March, and the Northern trade as early thereafter as the weather 

 will permit. If you want to save the trouble and risk of introducing your 

 queens, they can be ordered in nuclei or with bees by the pound as you choose. 

 Queens go by mail, post paid, and bees by express, not prepaid. 



We quote prices as follows, shipped di'-ect from our breeder in Florida: 



Island Bred Italian Queens, ship- 

 ments begin March 1st: 



16 12 



Untested $1.50 $7.50 $12.00 



Tested 2.00 10.50 18.00 



Sel Tested.. 3.00 15.00 24.00 



Tested Breeding Queens $5.00 and 



$10.00 each 



Prices on Bees by the pound f. o. 



b. shipping- point. Siiipment begins 

 May 10th: 



1 6 12 



Vz lb $1.50 $ 7.50 $12.00 



1 lb 2.00 10.50 18.00 



2 lbs 3.00 15.00 27.50 



These prices are without Queens. 



Prices on Nucleus and Full Colonies without Queens: Shipping now. 



1 Frame Nucleus $2.00; 2 Frame Nucleus $3.00; 3 Frame Nucleus $4.00 

 5 Frame Nucleus $5.00; 8 Frame Colony $7.50; 10 Frame Colony $9.00. 



Knowing this stock so tlioroughly and the breeder being of National repu- 

 tation, we do not hesitate to recommend this stock to be as good as money 

 can buy, either imported or domestic, llemember wo will book orders in rota- 

 tion. First come, first served. By ordering novv you will be quite sure of get- 

 ting your queens when you want them. It is quite likely to be different, later 

 Order with remittance. 



THE BEEKEEPERS' REVIEW 



NORTHSTAR, MICHIGAN 



