THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW, 



271 



SouTHEBN Bee-Keepino diffebs from that 

 at the North mainly iu the absence of the 

 wintering problem. So writes Mr. J. H. 

 Hill, of Grove City, Fla. At the North the 

 honey flow comes on suddenly and is of 

 short duration, while at the South it comes 

 on gradually and lasts three or four months 

 — some honey coming in nearly all the year. 

 Then again, the season is earlier at the 

 South. In order to get much benelit from 

 a Northern bee journal he says that it is 

 necessary to read, say, last year's May num- 

 ber this year in March. 



MAGNITUDE OF THE QUEEN TBADE, 



In response to the request in the last Re- 

 view as to the number of queens each 

 breeder had reared the past season, I have 

 received the following replies : — 



Atchley Jonnio, Floyd, Tex 2,800 



Bankstun C. B., Thorndale, Texas 700 



Compton W. A , Lynnville, Tenn 120 



Case J. B., Port Orange, Florida 745 



Doolittle G. M., Borodiuo. N. Y. 712 



Frazier W. C. Atlantic. Iowa . . 150 



Green J. A., Dayton, Ills 296 



Golden J , A , Reinersville. Ohio 77 



Hicks C. M., HicksviUe. Md 175 



Kildow A. L.. Sheffield, Ills 141 



Leininger Bros., Ft Jennings, Ohio 800 



Lockhart & Co. F. A., Lake George, N. Y. 500 



Michael J. A., German, Ohio 300 



Moore J. P., Morgan, Ky 680 



Mott George, Sparger, Texas 250 



Nebel & Son Jno.. High HiU, Mo 1180 



Pike D. A., Smithburg. Md 337 



Quigley E. F , Unionville, Mo 297 



Thies Chas. H., Steelevillo. Ills 568 



Trego S. F. & I., Swedona, Ills .949 



Total 11,715 



THE BEE AND HONEY SHOW AT THE DETBOIT 

 EXPOSITION. 



Two years ago I published in the Review 

 a result of my annual trip to the fairs. With 

 the exception of the ever-varying little inci- 

 dents, one fair season is the counterpart of 

 another. At each end of the route, this year, 

 a careless drayman allowed a box of bottles 

 full of honey to slide from the top of the 

 load to the pavement — "kersmash." About 

 half the bottles were picked up whole and 

 cleaned up "as good as new." Last year 

 the street "gamins" stole more honey than 

 usual. Another year the exhibitors spent a 

 part of one night moving things about to 

 keep them out of the water that dripped 

 through a leaky roof. The older exhibitors 

 come to look at these little happenings with 

 a philosophical nonchalance that is almost 

 amusing in its coolness. 



The Detroit Exposition furnishes a splen- 

 did building, offers liberal premiums, em- 

 ployes competent superintendents and 

 judges, and taken all in all the inducements 

 are such as to put a man on his metal. The 

 result is that the best bee and honey shows 

 that I have seen have been at the Detroit Ex- 

 position. I have many times fairly "ached" 

 to give my readers a picture of some of the 

 di plays, but the trouble has been to get 

 good photographs. In the upper story, 

 where the bee keepers make their display, 

 the walls are nearly all glass. The tall win- 

 dows extend up as much as twenty feet from 

 the floor. Mr. Hunt and myself have tried 

 having photographs taken but the strong 

 light streaming in the big windows right in 

 the camera's eye "blinded" it so that the 

 result was decidedly blurred. This year as 

 soon as the exhibit was in place and the 

 premiums awarded I skipped for home and 

 was fortunate enough to be there to welcome 

 the new baby when she arrived. The last day 

 of the fair I went back and in the evening as 

 Cutting and myself were sitting upon one 

 of the benches near the great fountain in 

 the center of the building enjoying a good 

 comfortable chat, my attention was sudden- 

 ly attracted by an artist taking a flash light 

 photograph of a group of boys dressed as 

 "brownies" and employed as an advertising 

 scheme by the U. S. Baking Co. It came 

 to me like a "flash" that by means of a flash 

 light at night we might get some good views 

 of the bee and honey exhibits. 



Let me explain to you in regard to taking 

 flash light pictures. In the inside of 

 large buildings dimly lighted, in caves or 

 mines, or in the night, protographs cannot 

 be taken without using artificial light. Or- 

 dinary artificial lights are not sufficiently 

 strong, but the burning of magnesium fur- 

 nishes so brilliant a light that it dazzles the 

 eye. There are several methods of burning 

 it. The artist at Detroit had a bright reflec- 

 tor about a foot and a half square. In front 

 of the reflector in a line parallel with its sur- 

 face are three wicks supplied with some 

 kind of oil the same as in a lamp. I didn't 

 learn what kind of oil was burned. Perhaps 

 it is not oil. It may be alcohol. No chim- 

 neys are used. On the surface of the reflec- 

 tor just back of each blazing wick is an ori- 

 fice and connecting with each orifice a rub- 

 ber tube, and these tubes connect with a 

 large rubber bulb that by a sort of squeezing, 

 pumping movement can be greatly inflated. 



