STOKES SEED FARMS COMPANY 



J^^M MOORESTOWN NEW JERSEY 



™" Bee Keepers' Supplies '™ 



Realizing that there are over eight hundred thousand keepers of bees in this countrj-, we appreciate that there 

 must "be quite a large number of our customers who are in the market for bee supplies from time to time. It is, there- 

 fore, with the purpose of making our service to these customers more complete that we are offering a list of such supplies 

 as are put out by the A. I. Root Company, the recognized headquarters for articles of this character. We give belo<\- 

 a tentative list of all items on which we are in a position to make prompt quotations. Such quotations will be made 

 either F. O. B. MoorestoAvn, New Jersey, or Medina, Ohio. TNTien sending in j^om- inquiries, you will please advise 

 which shipping point you desire quotations made against. In view of the fact that prices of bee supplies vary, we 

 feel that it is much more satisfactory not to list specific prices here. The following is a partial list of such bee supplies 

 as we now offer. 



Alexander Feeder 

 Alexander Honey Strainer 

 Bee Books 

 Bees and Queens 

 Bee Gloves — Mits 

 Bee Hat 



Bee Shipping Cages 

 Bee Veils 



Boardman Feeders 

 Bottomboards 

 Cages — Bee Shipping 

 Cages for Queens 



Cans and Pails 



Carriers for Comb Honey 



Comb Foundation 



Extractors — Honey 



Extractors — Wax 



Foundation 



Frames 



Hives 



Honey Boards 

 Honey Boxes — Sections 

 Honej^ Containers 

 Honey Knives 



Honej^ Shipping Cases 



Honej^ Strainers 



Net Weight Stampmg Outfit 



Queen Cages 



Queen Catcher 



Queen Register Cards 



Section Boxes 



Section Holders 



Section Presses 



Shallow Frames 



Simplicity Feeder 



Smokers 



Stamping Outfit 

 Steam Boiler 

 Stoves 



Super Foimdation 

 Swarm Catcher 

 Tanks for Honev 

 Veils 



Wire for Frames 

 Wood Separators 

 Zinc Honey Boards 

 Zinc Sheets 



114 STORY HIVE 



ONE STORY HIVE 



ARTIFICIAL COMBS 



" There are numberless instances of the absolute attachment 

 and devotion that the workers display towards their queen. Should 

 disaster befall the Uttle republic; should the hive or the comb 

 collapse, should man prove ignorant, or brutal; should they suffer 

 from famine, from cold or disease, and perish by thousands, it will 

 still be almost invariably found that the queen will be safe and alive, 

 beneath the corpses of her faithful daughters. For they will protect 

 her, help her to escape: their bodies wiU provide both rampart and 

 shelter; for her will be the last drop of honey, the wholesomest 

 food. And be the disa.ster ever so great, the citv of virgins will 

 not lose heart so long as the queen be alive. Break their comb 

 twenty times in succession, take twenty times from their j-oung and 

 their food, you still shall never succeed in making them doubt of 

 the future; "and though they be starving, and their number so small 

 that it .scarcely suffices to shield their mother from the enemy's gaze, 

 they will set "about to reorganize the laws of the colony, and to 

 provide for what is most pressing; they will distribute the work in 

 accordance with the new necessities of this disastrous moment, and 



thereupon will immediately reassume their labours with an ardour, 

 a patience, a tenacity and inteUigence not often to be found existing; 

 to such a degree in nature, true though it be that most of its 

 creatures display more confidence and courage than man." 



"Let us go on. then, with the storj' of our hive; let as take it 

 up where we left it; and raise, as high as we may, a fold of the 

 festooned curtain in whose midst a .strange sweat, white as snow 

 and airier than the down of a wing, is beginning to break over the- 

 .swarm. For the wa.x that is now being born is not like the wax: 

 that we know; it is immaculate, it has no weight; seeming truly to 

 be the soul of tlie honey, that itself is the spirit of flowers. And 

 this motionless incantation has called it forth that it may serve us. 

 later — in memory of its origin, doubtless, wiierein it is one with the- 

 azure sky, and heavy with perfumes of magnificence and purity — as 

 the fragrant light of the last of our altars. " 



From The Life of the Bee by Maurice Maeterlinck. 



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