IN THE FRONT RANK of Queen-Breeders. Our handsome 24-page Illustrated Catalogue of four races of BEES, QUEENS, and BEE-KEEPERS' SUPPLIES for 1882 is now ready. Secure a copy before you purchase elsewhere. Address 2-7d E. A. THOMAS & CO. HONEY EXTRACTOR, SQUARE GLASS HONEY JARS, TIN BUCKETS, BEE HIVES, MOLDED COMB FDN. 3tfd QUEENS AND NUCLEI IN SEASON. J. H. ROBERTSON, PEWAMO, IONIA CO., MICH. has advantages over all other. My new machines Italian and Holy-Land make it very perfect. Thin fdn., warranted 10 to 11 QUEENS and BEES. I use the very best of Imported and Home-bred queens to breed from; and all queens warranted to be mated with pure yellow drones. If you want C. OLM'S COMB FOUNDATION MACHINE. bees that are sure to winter, try our Italian queens. 4-6 SEND FOR SAMPLE AND CIRCULAR. C. OLM, Fond du Lac, Wis. 1882. QUEENS! 1882. I am now booking orders for war- J. T. WILSON, SUPPLIES FOR THE APIARY. Purchase your Hives, Crates, and Sections, from where pine lumber can be bought cheap. Special attention given to large orders. 2-7d HIRAM ROOP, Carson City, Mich. TALIAN BEES AND QUEENS Full colonies, 2, 3, and 4 frame nuclei. Tested Queens, in May, $3.00; in June, $2.50; July, August, and September, $2.00. Untested queens, in June and July, $1.00; Aug., 90c; Sept., 75c. All queens will be reared from imported and home-bred queens. Please send for list to GEO. W. BAKER, 3-9 Lewisville, Henry Co., Ind. No black bees in the vicinity. Dollar queens, before $1.25 per lb.; after June, $1.00 per lb. The purest and brightest yellow foundation made. Extra thin and bright for sections, 10 sq. ft. to the lb., 48c per lb. I will work up wax for 10c per lb. Send for sample of our comb foundation before purchasing elsewhere. F. W. HOLMES, Coopersville, Ottawa Co., Mich. A HANDY FEEDER. 4-9d All queens bred from D. A. Jones's imported queens. Dollar queens before June 20th, $1.25 each; after that date, single queen, $1.00; six queens for $5.00; twelve or more, 75 cts. each. Tested queens, $2.50 each. Italian queens, raised in Holy-Land apiaries, same price. Bees by the pound, and nucleus and 1-9d full colony, as per A. I. Root's price list. BEES AND QUEENS A SPECIALTY. I have had 21 years' experience in breeding the Italian bee; have queens, nuclei, and full stocks, from the best strains. Price reasonable. Satisfac tion guaranteed. Send your address for price list. I. S. CROWFOOT. 4-7d Hartford, Wash. Co., Wis., April 1, 1882. SEE! SEE! SEE! ONLY ONE MATCH PER DAY The Bee-Keeper's Exchange. ORIGINAL PATENT DIRECT-DRAFT SMOKER. The Original You can depend on Bing ham Smokers and Bingham BINGHAM & Hetherington Uncapping Knives. Twenty thousand in use; not one ever returned, or letter of complaint received. Our smokers are better this season than ever before. Large smokers need wide shields to prevent heating the hands and burning the fingers. The three higherpriced have them. The tall, slow, tapering top makes a large smoke reservoir, and enables Bingham smokers to be filled without trouble from heat. Sent postpaid per mail, on receipt of price. Bingham & Hetherington Uncapping Knife and cap-catcher........ $1.40 115 The same with no cap-catcher.... A live, progressive monthly, edited by practica price, which is $1.00 per annum, postpaid, or three bee-keepers, and richly worth the subscription months on trial for 25 cents. Sample copy free, including our price list of Apiarian Supplies. You will consult your best interests by securing a copy before you order. Address 4tfd HOUCK & PEET, Canajoharie, N. Y. HIVES AND SECTION BOXES, wide L. frames, tin separators, brood frames with metal corners. All kinds of hives; chaff hives with movable upper story. Send for price list. 3-7d A. B. MILLER & SON, Wakarusa, Elkhart Co., Ind. Italian, Cyprian, and Holy-Land Queens, Bred from the D. A. Jones importation; also VANDERVORT COMB FOUNDATION, made on the same mills that made the fdn. that took the prize at the Northeastern Bee-keepers' Association at Utica in 1881 and 1882, over the Van Deusen, Flat-Bottom, and thin Dunham, for surplus boxes; also the thick over all kinds for brood-chamber. I. L. SCOFIELD, Chenango Bridge, Broome Co., N. Y. FLAT-BOTTOM COMB FOUNdation.-High side-walls, 4 to 14 square feet to the lb. Circular and samples free. J. VAN DEUSEN & SONS, Sole Manufacturers, Sprout Brook, Mont. Co., N. Y. 175 150 3-8d 125 65 99 "The Conqueror.' The steady and increasing demand for the Large Smoker, and the frequent request for a larger one, have induced me to offer to bee-keepers one having a three by seven stove, with a chimney seven inches high and a bellows in proportion. Large Smokers need wide shields to prevent heating the hands and burning the fingers. Only Bingham's have the wide shields, non-rusting springs, spark-proof bellows. All our latest improvements will be in this new size. It will be strictly number one in all respects. Sent by mail, postpaid, on receipt of $2.00. Address BINCHAM & HETHERINGTON, ABRONIA, MICHIGAN. BAYOU GOULA, LA., MAY 2, 1882. Mess. Bingham & Hetherington, Abronia, Mich:DEAR SIR,-The Conqueror conquers every thing in the apiary. It is almost a fight between my three assistants as to who will get it first in the morning. A single puff from it will fill a double-story with smoke. I will use no other after this. Yours truly, P. L. VIALLON. HEADQUARTERS IN THE SOUTH BEE-KEEPERS' SUPPLIES, Root's and Dunham's Foundation. Italian queens a specialty; no Cyprians or other races of bees in my apiary, or in the neighborhood. All my queens are bred from imported mothers of my own importations. Untested queens, in May, $1.10; after, $1.00. Tested queens, in May, $2.50; after, $2.00. Early 4-frame nuclei (L. frames), with tested queen, $5.00. These are more advantageous than bees by the pound, as all my 4-frame nuclei contain at least 3 Ibs. of bees when received. Safe arrival and satisfaction guaranteed on all my queens, nuclei, and colonies. For further particulars, send for illustrated circular. P. L. VIALLON, 5tfd Bayou Goula, Iberville Par., La. IF YOU WANT ITALIAN QUEENS CHEAP, 4tfd 5tfd ITALIAN BEES, Queens and Sections. Untested queens in May, $1.50; in June, $1.25: July and after, $1.00 each. Per doz., after July 1st, $10.00. Tested queens, double price of untested queens. One 2-comb nucleus, without queen (Gallup frame), in May, $3.00; June, $2.50; July and after, $2.00; 2-comb nucleus with Standard L. frames, 25 per cent more. One-half pound of Italian bees, same price as untested queen. SECTIONS.-Plane dovetailed sections, 44x44x1%. $4.50 per 1000; 5x52x1%, $5.00 per 1000. Less than 500, 60c per 100. Sections of this thickness need no tins between them to insure straight combs. Also, the bees will seal honey faster than in combs with deeper cells. See testimonials in March GLEANINGS. Please remit by P. O. money order, by registered letter, or by draft on New York or Chicago. Address O. H. TOWNSEND, Kalamazoo, Kal. Co., Mich. 6tfd FOR SALE! A farm of 100 acres. Good house and barn, and fine orchard; both living and cistern water. House, barn lots, pasture, and orchard on forty acres; the rest, all smooth prairie. A first-class farm in every respect, and a bargain for any one wanting a nice Excelsior Dunham and Vandervort Fdn. home. Price $30.00 per acre. Also joining the ва BEES BY THE HIVE OR LB. BEFORE JUNE 20, $1.25 per lb.: in 10-lb. lots, $1.00 per lb. Combs and stores to ship on, 15 cts. per lb. Wax has advanced so my price will now be: Dunham, 10 to 50 lbs., 42c; over 50 lbs., 41c; less than 10 lbs., 44c. Vandervort, 10 sq. feet per lb., 1 to 10 lbs., 57c; 10 to 50 lbs., 54c. No discounts. Circular free. 6-7d 1882. J. V. CALDWELL, Italian queens. I can furnish Italian queens at 6d GOOD COLONIES IN SIMPLICITY HIVES, 88.00. 100 sale cheap. Same as used by Hethering I will fill orders by return express. 6d J. J. KISER, De Moines (E. S. Station), Iowa. WANTED! To correspond with all Colorado bee-keepers who take GLEANINGS, and are in need of bee-hives and apiarian supplies. Address J. L. PEABODY, Bee-Hive Manufactory, No. 376 Wasoola Street, ва Denver, Colorado. W.Z.HUTCHINSON Rogersville, Genesee Co., Michigan, Makes a specialty of rearing fine Italian queens. All queens bred from imported queens, and from the best home-bred queens; and the cells built in full colonies. No black bees in the vicinity. During June, queens will be $1.00 each. Tested queens, $2.50 ton & Elwood. Write for prices and particulars to 6 each. Safe arrival guaranteed. Make money orders TIN POINTS FOR GLASSING HONEY. payable at Flint, Mich. GILT EDGE. UNTESTED ITALIAN QUEENS, $1.00. 6tfd. Cut by machinery; are much cheaper and better We expect to have to dispose of, during the NEW IDEAS. months of June and July, 1882, a few queens, daugh- ва Foundation ready for business. Sheets bound 1 88 1 10 94 1 15 10 Quinby's New Bee-Keeping**.. 1 40 70 Cloth 94 BOOKS for BEE-KEEPERS and OTHERS. Any of these books on which postage is not given, will be forwarded by mail, postpaid, on receipt of price. In buying books, as every thing else, we are liable to disappointment, if we make a purchase without seeing the article. Admitting that the bookseller could read all the books he offers, as he has them for sale, it were hardly to be expected he would be the one to mention all the faults, as well as good things about a book. I very much desire that those who favor me with their patronage, shall not be disappointed, and therefore, I am going to try to prevent it by mentioning all the faults so far as I can, that the purchaser may know what he is getting. In the following list, books that I approve, I have marked with a*; those I especially approve,**; those that are not up to times, t; books that contain but little matter for the price, large type and much space between the lines,; foreign, §. BOOKS ESPECIALLY FOR BEE-KEEPERS. As many of the bee-books are sent with other goods by freight or express, incurring no postage, we give prices separately. You will notice, that you can judge of the size of the books very well, by the amount required for postage on each. Postage.] [Price without postage. 12 | ABC of Bee Culture** Paper. 10 Cook's New Manual** Cloth. 5 Bee-Keeper's Text Book* Revised, Paper 6 Bee-Keeper's Text Book* BOOKS THAT I HAVE NEVER EXAMINED, BUT THAT American Angler, Norris.... Darwin's Variations of Animals and Plants... $5.50 30 3 75 38 175 100 3 00 75 25 1 90 Gregory On Squashes.. .paper.. 80 2 Dzierzon Theory**. 18 Gregory On Onions.......paper 30 1 Extracted Honey, Dadant*. 14 Guenon On Milch Cows.. 75 1 Honey as Food and Medicine. 05 Gun, Rod, and Saddle.. 100 "Blessed Bees" A fascinating book, but it is Hedges and Evergreens, Warder. 1 50 fiction and not facts. Putnam's Sons.. 100 Hoosier Schoolmaster.. 1 25 Fuller's Grape Culturist**. The Apiary, or Bees, Bee Hives, and Bee Culture, by Geo. Neighbour & Sons, England*8 Harris on The Pig.. 1 50 175 How to Get a Farm and When to Find One.. Insects Injurious to Vegetation...Plain, $4 00. With Colored Plates, $6 50. 125 150 Jennings' Horse Training Made Easy. 1 25 Book on Birds, Holden*. 25 Johnson's How Crops Feed.. 2.00 5 Dictionary, 25,000 words and phrases Draining for Profit and Health, Warring. 15 Johnson's How Crops Grow. 2.00 150 Klipparts Wheat Plant. 175 10 Five Acres too Much** 140 Leavitt's Facts About Peat... 175 Forest Tree Culturist, Fuller*. 150 Landscape Gardening, Downing. 6 50 10 Gardening for Profit** 140 Gray's School and Field Book of Botany.. 2 10 Mrs. Cornelius's Young Housekeeper's Friend. Money In The Garden, Quinn... 1 50 1 50 How to Build Hot- Houses, Leuchars. 150 Manual of Botany and Lessons, Gray. 3 00 5 How to Make Candy**. 45 My Ten Rod Farm, Barnard.. 38 | How to Paint, Gardner‡. 100 My Vineyard at Lakeview.. 1 25 2 Hints for Painters*. 23 Practical Butter Book, Willard.. 1 00 1 Injurious Insects, Prof. A. J. Cook**. 14 Pear Culture, Fields... 1 25 Irrigation for the Farm, Garden and Or Peach Culture, Fulton's.. 150 chard Stewart*, 2 Onion Culture*. 18 Parsons On The Rose.. 1 50 10 On the Road to Riches** 90 Practical Poultry Keeper, Wright. 2. 00 Play and Profit in my Garden*. 150 Riley on the Mule. 1 50 2 Potatoe Culture, (Prize Essay)* Potatoe Pests, by Prof. Riley**. paper 23 Rhododendrons, Rand 1 50 2 Purdy's Small Fruit Instructor*.. Small Fruit Culturist, Fuller*. Strawberry Culturist, Fuller*. Sugar Canes and their Products. Sample of sugar included*. Ten Acres Enough**. 50 Strawberry Garden. Barnard. A Story 38 75 1 00 175 1.00 1 00 Tim Bunker Papers*. 1 50 1 50 2 | Treatise on the Horse and his Diseases... What I know of Farming, Horace Greely.. | Window Gardening. 23 EMERSON'S 1 50 1 50 3 Wood's Common Objects of the Micro PAT.BINDER FORMUSICE PERIODICALS You can not look over the back No's of GLEANINGS or any other Periodical with satisfaction, unless they are in some kind of a Binder. Who has not said "Dear me, what a bother-I must have last month's Journal and it is no where to be found." Put each No. in the Emerson Binder as soon as it comes, and you can sit down happy, any time you wish to find anything you may have previously seen even though it were months ago. Binders for GLEANINGS (will hold them for one year), gilt lettered, free by mail for 50, 60, and 75c, according to quality. Table of prices of Binders for any Periodical, mailed on application. Send in your orders. A. I. ROOT, Medina, Ohio. CHARLES BIANCONCINI & CO., Bologna, Italy. FOUNDATION! At Kansas City, Mo., WHOLESALE I BREED PURE ITALIAN BEES FOR SALE. Tested Queens, in June. " after June. ༥་ ་ .$2.50 100 BEES, per 1⁄2 lb., same prices as dollar queens. bred stock. I warrant my Dollar Queens to be purely mated; and guarantee safe arrival. If for any reason the bees do not please you, write me full particulars, and I will do my best to render satisfaction. In ordering, please write your name and address plainly. Respectfully, 6tfd E. M. HAYHURST, P. O. Box 1131. -AND RETAIL. Dealers in Bee Supplies will do well to send for our wholesale prices of foundation. We now have the most extensive manufactory of foundation in the country. We send to all parts of the U. S. We make all standard styles, and our wax is nowhere to be equaled for cleanliness, purity, and beauty. Extra thin and bright for sections. All shapes and all sizes. Samples free on request. We now quote an advance of 5 cents on the prices advertised in our circulars, wholesale or retail. CHAS. DADANT & SON, HAMILTON, HANCOCK CO., ILL. 1tfd Save Money READ THIS: PURE ITALIANS A SPECIALTY. Choice tested Queens, in June. 66 July Three L. frame Nuclei and Queen $2.00 1 25 1.00 |