p:xiinuTs OF honky 



10,5 



EXHIBITS OF HONEY. 



CHARLES MONDENG AND ms SON N()U3I AN DEMON- 

 STRATING ADEL BEES AT THE MINNE- 

 SOTA STATE FAIR. 

 Mr. Mondeng and Ins son were awarded the first prize for I'ce 

 demonstration; first prize on golden Italian bees; first 

 prize on leather-colored Italinn bees. 



freshened up by a 

 tiight outdoors. Af- 

 ter these latter have 

 liad two or three 

 days in which to 

 cleanse themselves 

 the entrance should 

 be closed at night, 

 when the hive can 

 be put back on its 

 stand, and another 

 observatory hive 

 take its place. So 

 in alternation each 

 one of the two or 

 three lots of bees 

 can be freshened 

 up. 



It goes without 

 saying, that, if 

 there is no honey in 

 Uie tields, the bees 

 should be fed occa- 

 sionally. 



LIVE - BEE - DEMONSTRATION WOKK 



TO ADVERTISE HONEY AT 



THE FAIRS. 



In connection with an exhibit 

 inside of the building, there should 

 be a placard directing the visitor 

 to a bee-show outside, as near the 

 building as possible. This should 

 be a demonstration of the method 

 ( f handling live bees inside a wire 

 cage, the operator taking them up 

 by handfuls and forming artificial 

 swarms. Where the two exhibits, 

 one of honey and bee- supplies, and 

 the bee-show itself, can be located 

 outdoors, it will be better. The 

 former should then be in a tempo- 

 rary booth or tent, since it would 

 not do to have the exhibits of wax 

 and comb honey exposed to the 

 direct action of the sun. The 

 bee- demonstrating cage should be 

 located close by, within ten or 

 twenty feet, and, as we have ex- 

 plained, it consists of a wire-cloth 

 structure large enough to take in 

 man, a hive of bees, and leave 

 room enough to practice ordinary 

 bee - manipulation. This cage 

 should be elevated on a stand four 

 or five feet above the ground— the 

 higher the better, because there 

 will be a great jam of people 

 ai ound to see the man inside pick 

 up live bees by the handful. 



Norman Mondeng is only eleven years old, yet he handles bees without fi 

 His entire clothing was a l)atliing suit. 



