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Dates To Bee Remembered

March 30th, 2008    IHPA Board Meeting Back Alley Deli/Des Moines/2:00 p.m.
June 14th, 2008       Field Day Raising Queens in Iowa / Place to be announced.
June 14th, 2008       IHPA Board Meeting Following the Field Day
Aug. 7-17th, 2008    Iowa State Fair IHPA Sales Booth/Fair Entries/Good Times
Oct. 5th, 2008          IHPA Board Meeting Back Alley Deli/Des Moines/2:00 p.m.
Nov. 6th, 2008         IHPA Board Meeting Best Western Regency Inn/Marshalltown/7:00 p.m.
Nov. 7th-8th, 2008 Annual Meeting Best Western Regency Inn/ Marshalltown

For Sale: 2-3 lb package bees.
Delivered to S.E. Iowa early April. Bloomsfield, Drakesville area.
Contact: Charles Newton
(641) 682-8333
(641) 799-9266 (evenings)

For Sale: Bottoms; 1.00 ea
Telescoping Lids; 50 cents ea.
Inner Covers; 1.00 ea
Two-gallon Feeder buckets; 1.50 ea
Queen Excluders; 3.00 ea
Stack pallets; 50 cents ea.
Semi Trailer for storage; $2,000.00
1973 F-600 Ford Truck with new 12' metal bed with tailgate lift; $3,500.00
500 2 X 4s, Four feet long; 40 cents ea.

Contact: Richard E. Blake
712-246-3412
2133 E Ave.
Shenandoah, IA 51601
E-Mail: njb1@swiowa.net

For Sale: A limited number of 4-frm nucs. Call for price and availability. Phil Ebert 641-527-2639 or ehoney37@netins.net

For Sale: Bee equipment. Selling due to health reasons. 60 (9 5/8) hives with drawn comb. Some may have bees in them. 65 (6 5/8) supers with 9 combs, 40 bottom boards, 40 inner covers, 40 lids, 30 screened bottom boards. Would like to sell as a unit but will consider dividing the lot.
Contact: Galen Eiben
30867 235th St.
Shell Rock, IA 50670
(319) 885-6264

Wanted: A used compact chain uncapper and associated equipment.
Contact: Louise Johnson
(563) 252-2340
louisej@alpinecom.net

For Sale: Queens—We will have a limited number of queens for sale during April. Most of these will be Carniolans from Koehnens. We are getting one lot of hygenic queens from Mark Sundberg. Prices are still unknown. I’m guessing they will be in the $19 to $20 range. There is no shipping on these queens. It is pickup only in Lynnville. We will ship queens from our own production but those won’t be available until June.

Contact Phil Ebert 641-527-2639 or e-mail ehoney37@netins.net

For Sale: Package bees. In addition to our normal 2# and 3# pkgs., we are also offering a 4# pkg. with two queens. I can give a decent price on the 4# unit. You need some knowhow to handle the 4#. You will be splitting the bees into two units. We will also be having a drop in either Hamilton, IL or Donnelson, IA. Call me if you have questions.
Phil Ebert 641-527-2639

Beekeeping Classes Update

Our beekeeping classes have been well attended this winter. There was a picture of Vern Ramsey’s Fairfield class in the newsletter last month. Pat Randol has 20 in her Winterset class. Margaret and I have 11 at Iowa Valley in Marshalltown. John Johnson has 20 at DMACC. Ron Wehr has 7 at Kirkwood in Washington. That’s a total of 70 students so far with the Spencer class yet to come. It will be the highest number of students we have ever had.

Submitted by Phil Ebert