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In the Austrian section of the Agricultural Building five different 
Dalmatian firms contributed samples of insect powder and chrysanthe- 
mum flowers used in its preparation. 
Large silk exhibits were made by Japan and France in the Manufac- 
tures Building and by the U.S. Department of Agriculture in the Goy- 
ernment Building. Smaller exhibits were made in the Agricultural 
Building by France, Mexico, Brazil, Greece, Algeria, and Russia, and 
still others were distributed about the grounds, notably in the Turkish 
and Columbian pavilions and in several State Buildings. The best of 
these exhibits showed the silk-worm in its different stages, the eggs on 
cards, blown larve in their successive moults, chrysalids, cocoons, and 
adults, and the silk, raw and manufactured. 
There were large domestic and several foreign exhibits of bees, honey, 
and other apiarian products and appliances, which have received notice 
in a more extended report elsewhere in this number. 
THE APIARIAN EXHIBIT AT THE COLUMBIAN EXPOSITION.* 
By FRANK ‘BENTON. 
Seventeen States and Territories and twenty-three foreign countries 
and colonies made entries of apiarian products or implements used in 
apiculture. But ten States, namely, California, lowa, Illinois, Indiana, 
Minnesota, Michigan, Nebraska, New York, Ohio, and Wisconsin, made 
displays worthy of special notice. Seven other States and Territories 
had small entries of honey or wax among their general exhibits of agri- 
cultural products, while the remainder of the Union, embracing some 
very excellent honey-producing areas, was wholly unrepresented. The 
exhibits were, however, creditable, and though no more than half what 
our country should have shown, they were infinitely superior to those 
of any other country, taken as a whole, represented at the Fair, not 
merely on account of their size, in which respect it would hardly be fair 
to compare with them the exhibits of foreign countries which by reason 
of their distance from Chicago were placed at a disadvantage, but the 
character and quality of the exhibits—a sure index of the plane to which 
apiculture had attained in a given country—was, in the case of the United 
States, such as to warrant quite a degree of patriotic pride on the part 
of American bee-keepers. 
Looking at apiculture in the foreign departments of the Fair anyone 
familiar with the condition of the industry abroad, especially in the lead- 
ing countries of Europe, could not fail to be struck by the fact that it was | 
very inadequately represented, that in truth hardly a foreign country 
that made entries in this line had done itself justice, while many that 
might have made excellent exhibits were not represented at all. This — 
* Reportof observations made during October under instructions from the Entomol- 
ogist. | 
