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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



Sept. 1, 1904. 



well eone and no eggs, so the queen 

 was gone. I told him the chances was 

 she had swarmed. But he d'dnt want 

 to think so. Of course I couldnt help 

 him much. Any way, if they were 

 mine I think he wouldnt need to wory 

 about it for awhile ; mayby it wil turn 

 out all rite. Its a good way I think to 

 reson on things, and then take it as 

 nice as you can. Anyway I think so. 

 Whel, as I sed, now I will close.. 



Charley Placid. 

 Todd Co., Minn., Aug. 13. 



A Hoosier at the Fair. 



Aue. 2, myself and wife started for 

 the World's Fair. Having been a bee- 

 keeper all my life, I did not fail to see 

 thi honey exhibits as well as other dis- 



^^We' took a Mason jar of lemon juice, 

 well sweetened, and had all the good, 

 cool lemonade we could drink, by put 

 ting a little of the juice in our cup and 

 then filling it up with the ice-water 

 furnished on the cars. In the same 

 way we had plenty to drink on the 

 grounds, and when returning home. 



Sweet clover was in blossom along 

 the way through Illinois, but I don t 

 think it amounted to much. 



Of the honey exhibits, I came across 

 only one, and that was in the Agri- 

 cultural Building-that of Emerson 

 Bros., of California. They had ex- 

 tracted honey in cans and round bot- 

 tles, and comb honey in one-pound sec- 

 tions and in glass globes. The comb 

 was arranged in 4 pillars. 



In the West annex of the Horticult- 

 ural Building I met Mr. Danzenbaker 

 and wife with a display of Root's 

 goods, consisting of extractors, smok- 

 ers foundation machines, observatory 

 hives, bee-literature and the Danz. su- 

 pers Mr. D. showed me some comb 

 honey just from North Carolina in the 

 4x5 plain sections— nice, clean, no prop- 

 olis and no scraping, each one weigh- 

 ing just a pound. He also explained 

 the merits of smokeis and how to re- 

 move brood-frames from his hives. 



Across the aisle Senator G. W. 

 Swink, of Colorado, had a large display 

 of alfalfa honey. The comb was in 

 4% bee-way sections, over 3000 pounds. 

 Ouite a lot of it was in slabs, being 

 built in the Langstroth brood-frames. 

 Bell jars looked enticing filled up hex- 

 agonally and in all shapes. L,arge 

 stars of comb honey attracted every- 

 body's attention. The extracted honey 

 was put up in Pouder jars, globes and 

 cans. But what particularly pleased 

 me, and what every bee-keeper ought 

 to see, was the beeswax. One pyramid 

 of cakes weighed 700 pounds, the bot- 

 tom cake alone weighing ISO pounds. 

 There were wax apples, corn, lions, 

 horses, roosters, etc., plaques of leaves. 



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