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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



Dec. 15. 



dark-colored honey that no one who tasted was 

 able to tell what flowers it came from. 



Mr. W. O. Titus, of Toledo, Lucas Co., loaned 

 the exhibit about M lbs. of beeswax, a portion 

 of which was shown at the rear end of the 

 front honey-stand. 



In the back end of the rear, and at the front 

 end of the front honey-stands, were two pyra- 

 mids of extracted honey in 2, 1, and K pound 

 and dime Muth honey-bottles, which 1 loaned 

 to the exhibit. Some of the honey had candied 

 and been drained, so that it looked very much 



Nearly all of the comb honey was exhibited 

 in crates with glass on both sides, holding but 

 two sections each. The extracted, with the 

 exception of that already mentioned as being in 

 Muth bottles, was shown in a large variety of 

 sizes and styles of glass jars, with either nickel 

 or glass tops, and holding from one ounce to^ 

 one gallon. 



All of the shelves on which the display was 

 nciade, and the pyramids built up with, were of 

 glass. 



For a few weeks I had a strong colony of Ital- 



OHIO S WOULD S FAIR HONEY-EXHIBIT, WITH DR. A. B. MASON ON THE LEFT. 



like sugar. Other portions were partially liq- 

 uid and partially candied, much of it looking 

 like very tine coral. 



In the front end of the case were some honey- 

 jumbles that were made in 188S. many barrels 

 of which were sold in five and ten cent lots in 

 the Apiarian Building at the Ohio Centennial 

 at Columbus, O., in the autumn of 1888, by those 

 in charge of A. I. Root's exhibit. I brought 

 these from Columbus at the close of the Cen- 

 tennial. I gave several a taste of them at the 

 World's Fair, and they said they were as fresh 

 as new ones. 



ian bees on exhibition in a nice glass hive. A 

 colony of bees or a nucleus with a queen will 

 attract more attention than any or all other 

 things in an apiarian exhibit, especially if 

 there is a bee-keeper to talk to visitors about 

 them. 



There were sixteen exhibitors from Ohio in 

 the apiarian department, and eight awards 

 were made on their exhibits, so far as heard 

 from. I believe I have named them all, except 

 that I received an award for "display of honey 

 in marketable shape.'' A. B. Mason. 



Toledo, O., Nov. 4. 



