ISLAND BRED QUEENS 



Did you ever lie awake nights 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 very 

 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 (lueens under identically the above 

 condition, isolated on an island where there arc no bees to interfere, and we will offer our 

 readers queens fi'om 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 i)ure Italians 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 purpsse of controlling the mating of queens, and it cannot be 

 expected that these purely mated high grade queens can be sold at the price of ordinary 

 stock. Although the firm who ai'e 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 DIRECT FROM OUR 



BREEDER IN FLORIDA 



Island Bred Italian Queens, shipments 



begin March 1st : 



1 



Untested $1.50 



Tested 2.00 



Sel Tested 3.00 



Tested Breeding Queens 

 each 



Prices on Bees by the pound f. o. b. 

 shipping point. Shipment begins May 10th : 



1 6 12 



V, 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 Nuclei 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 thoroughly and the breeder being of National reputation, we do 

 not hesitate to recommend this stock to be as good as money can buy, either imported or 

 domestic. Remember we will book orders in rotation. First come, first served. By order- 

 ing now you will be quite sure of getting your queens when you want them. It is quite 

 likely to be different, later. Order with remittance. 



THE BEEKEEPERS' REVIEW 



NORTHSTAR, MICHIGAN 



