I'EBRl'ARY, 1918 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



103 



HEAPS OF GRAIN"T PP0M\a rDIFFERENT FIELDS 



keep bees again. I certainly hope that if you do 

 stait again, you will have success and I assure you 

 that I am ready to do all I can to help you and at 

 the same time perform the duties which are a neces- 

 sary adjunct to my office." 



All ye beekeepers, take notice. 



JOHN PEESTON TEUE. 

 Boston, Mass. 



[Can't you tell us what the solution is? 

 Or is that a secret formula?— Editor.] 



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An Exhibit That October 18 to 23, 1917, 



Was a Fort Smith, Arkansas, 



Great Success. celebrated its 100th 



birthday; and in get- 

 ting up a suitable celebration the centennial 

 committee asked the writer to get the bee 

 men together and exhibit honey and oees- 

 wax. But when the few beemen got to- 

 gether they decided to show not only honey 

 and beeswax, but to get up a bee exhibit. 

 With the help and encouragement of Glean- 

 ings and other publications, we got our ex- 

 hibit under way. The display consisted of 

 bees, wax, honey, one-frame nuclei of three- 

 banded and golden bees, a full eight-frame 

 glass hive with a super of honey on top, and 

 a collection of queens of every race that 

 could be secured at this season of the year 

 and in this locality. 



W. H. Laws of Beeville, Tex., and W. H. 



Milam, of Moore, Tex., both managed to be 

 present to assist in demonstrating. Besides 

 acting as judge and helping to demonstrate, 

 Mr. Laws also brought one of his finest 

 golden queens and gave her as a prize in the 

 contest, which was won by J. W. Rice, with 

 his big glass hive of bees. As Mr. Laws 

 judges bees in many parts of the country, 

 he could hardly be -expected to contribute a 

 fine breeding queen at each place, but this 

 happens to be his own home town. 



The bee exhibit was about the most talk- 

 ed-of feature at the centennial and it kept 

 one or two men busy constantly answering 

 questions and helping people to find a queen 

 bee. 



The colored population held their part of 

 the centennial in their own part of town, 

 where they have a street with every line 

 of business run by members of their own 

 race. At the request of their committee, 

 Mr. Milam and the writer took several glass 

 cages containing bees, queens, etc., and talk- 

 ed bees for the colored people. I never ap- 

 peared before a more interested and respect- 

 ful audience. This kind of friendly separa- 

 tion of the races works satisfactorily to both 

 races here. 



The farm demonstrators were so well pleas- 

 ed with the educational feature of the bee- 

 keepers' exhibit that they arranged with 

 Tne to take most of the display to the Green- 



A very successful exliibit at Ft. Smith, Ark., centennial, and those who made it. 



