NATIONAL Gets Big Peter Kilpatrick, Nazareth Pa., writes, "Have made better hatches than anyone here." Money cannot buy greater hatching value. Hot water heat-double wall-dead air space asbestos lining-self regulating-ventilating -double glass doors-safety lamp-egg tester. No extras to buy-easy to operate-will not warp or abrink, Strongest, most durable Incubator made. 165 Egg Incubator Only $10 Freight Paid East of Rockies Take no chances. The National is built on U.S.Government specifications. A proven cold weather hatcher. The World's Greatest Incubator Bargain. Send postal today for Free 1917 Catalog And Poultry Book-worth dollars to every poultry raiser -or order direct from this ad and save time. Incu. bator and brooder both prepaid $12.50.Comes set up ready to run, with book of instructions. You take no risk,satisfaction guaranteed or money refunded. Don't delay. Send for Poultry Book today sure. NATIONAL INCUBATOR CO. Box 116 Racine, Wis. Poultry Supplies Poultry supplies of all kinds, best automatic grain feeders, fountains, feed troughs, dry mash hoppers, bone mills, exhibition and shipping coops, leg bands, shell, grit, bone, meat, foods, and remedies ANYTHING YOU WANT. Also Pigeon, Kennel and Bee Supplies. Circular free. Eureka Supply House Box B-403, Aurora, Illinois THE QUEEN OF ALL QUEENS Is the Texas Queen, Italian Goldens that will please you in every way. 75 cents each, $8.00 per dozen. Circulars free. GRANT ANDERSON PROTECTION HIVES Price $13.75 for five hives, f. o. b. Grand Rapids, Mich. Delivered prices furnished on request. Double-wall with air spaces, insulation or packing as you may prefer. Over an inch of space between the outer and inner walls. Total wall space two and a quarter inches. If you have ever had occasion to spend any time in a building, single boarded, during cold weather, you can appreciate the advantages of double walls. Even with a red hot stove, you are freezing on one side and roasting on the other. Double walls relieve this condition and reduce the quantity of fuel necessary. Honey is the fuel, the bee the stove. The life of the bee as well as the stove depends upon its work; do not burn them out. Send us a list of your requirements for 1917, and let us figure with you. Small as well as large orders are wanted. Let us add you to our list of many pleased customers in all parts of the country. A. G. WOODMAN CO., Grand Rapids, Michigan SECTION FIXER A combined section press and foundation fastener of pressed steel construction. It folds the section and puts in top and bottom starters all at one handling, thus saving a great amount of labor. With the top and bottom starters the comb is firmly attached to all four sides, a requirement to grade fancy. Increase the value of your crop by this method. H. W. Schultz, of Middleton, Mich., in writing us says: "Your Section Fixer is the best yet; can put up 150 sections per hour with top and bottom starters." Price with lamp $2.75. Shipping weight 5 lbs. Postage extra. Send for special circular, fully describing this machine. A. G. WOODMAN CO., SAVE MONEY By buying your supplies of me. All kinds of Bee Supplies and Berry Baskets, Crates, etc. Send for new 1917 list free. W. D. SOPER 325 So. Park Ave., Jackson, Mich. Hinged cover on the two larger sizes postage extra. A. G. Woodman Co., Grand Rapids, Mich. American Bee Journal one year, $1.00 Langstroth on the Honey Bee, Revised, $1.50 Send this office $2.00 and get both postpaid UP TO THE MINUTE ON All Kinds of Bee Supplies That is our aim, and we are constantly on the lookout for new and valuable implements for the beekeeper. We are sure that we have found something of exceptional value in the NEW ELECTRIC WIRE IMBEDDER SIMPLE TO OPERATE-All that is necessary is to connect device to two dry cells and go ahead. ECONOMICAL-Two dry cells will imbed a thousand or more brood-frames with four wires. Can be left connected and will not burn the current except when in actual use. Saves its cost in a short time.. DURABLE-Made of wood, copper and brass, and will last a lifetime. CONVENIENT-Can be used where city current is not available. This makes it espe- . cially valuable for the outyard or for the farmer beekeeper. EFFECTIVE-Far ahead of any other device on the market. Cements the wire in the foundation as though it had grown there. The slight pressure on the wires is just enough to push the hot wire into the cell walls. This cut shows how well the wires are cemented into the foundation. When wired in this way foundation may be kept in the frames indefinitely without danger of becoming loosened. Send in your order today. Ask for our 1917 catalog. We list several new items which will interest you. DADANT & SONS, Hamilton, Illinois Beeware Brand ON ALL YOUR HIVES, SUPERS AND SECTIONS BEWARE WHERE YOU BUY YOUR BEEWARE WWIS WATERTOWN, MAKES THE FINEST OUR NEW 1917 CATALOG IS NOW OUT Be Sure to Get Your Copy. G. B. LEWIS COMPANY, Watertown, Wis. Vol. LVII. No. 2 MONTHLY, $1.00 A YEAR COMMERCIAL QUEEN REARING Methods of Wholesale Production of Queens at the Davis Apiaries as Seen by Our Staff Correspondent B EEKEEPING is getting highly specialized every year. Where formerly the beekeeper produced both comb and extracted honey for market and also reared his own queens and a few to sell, the beekeeper now is either a comb or extracted honey producer or a queenbreeder. The larger the business the less the inclination to cover too much ground. Since the demand for queens is growing so rapidly, we have a double purpose in mind in presenting this article to our readers. First, we wish to supply the information as to how good queens can be reared on a large scale and second we feel that our readers would like to know something of the methods of the men with whom they deal. Accordingly we have decided to describe the queen rearing apiaries of some of the better known breeders from time to time as opportunity offers. Since J. M. Davis, of Spring Hill, Tenn., is probably the oldest queenbreeder in the United States, having been in the business for 44 years continuously, it seems fitting that his work should be the first to be described in this series. While Ben. G. Davis, his son, conducts his business entirely apart from that of the father, the two can best be considered in a single article. As a young man J. M. Davis was employed as a telegraph operator for the L. & N. railroad. The business of the road was not heavy at the little town where he was stationed, and, having much time on his hands he became interested in bees. Like many another who has taken up beekeeping for the fun of it, he soon found in it the possibilities of a serious business. Because of the uncertainty of the honeyflow in his locality, he decided to follow queen rearing to insure a reasonably cer THE DAVIS LOCATION. Middle Tennessee is generally considered as one of the finest agricultural sections of America. It is a most beautiful country and the mild climate makes it a desirable section for a home. Spring Hill is located |