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the red-hot centers of attraction and advertising. 

 Near my exhibit was a display of wall-papers. A 

 room about 12 feet square was built, and decorated 

 with expensive paper; and .=o it is through all lines 

 of business, with the exception, perhaps, of bee- 

 keeping. 



Probably the hardest thing for a spirited bee- 

 keeper to bear, at the present time, is the general 

 belief that bee-keeping is a small business, and that 

 any ninny who knows just enough to chew gum 

 can successfully produce honey; and bee-keepers, 

 as a rule, are following a course of action to con- 

 firm people in that belief; for if a business is not 

 worth a little advertising effort, it is not much of a 

 business. And right hei'e, friend Root, T wish you 

 would insert the cartoon found on page ;547, Vol. 



I.MPK.NUINO B.\NKRUPT(^. 



VII. of (ii,E.\.\iNGS. Tt fully expiesses the general 

 idea the bee-keepers oi' this counlrj- ha\'e in rela- 

 tion to advertising their business. That is the great 

 trouble with oui- markets, and the sale of honey; it 

 is the sit-down, do tiolhing, good-for-nothing, wait- 

 ing-for-something-toturn-up policy. Our Canadi- 

 an brethren are away ahead of us in the line of e.v- 

 hibits at fairs; and at our recent convention at Al- 

 bany this fact stuck right out when it was men- 

 tioned that, in Toronto, the honey-exhibit ]>iled up 

 to twenty toni<, and the exhibit in our own great 

 State of New York, the Erapir-e State of the nation, 

 at its last annual fair, was twenty poif/ii/.s- .' Now, 

 my dear N. V. State reader, look at the iibove car- 

 toon; does that chap look like you V If he does, 

 look your.-5elf in the face and blush. 



Our Canadian brethren, flnding that it pays to ex- 

 hibit twentji tons in the home country, incurred a 

 great expense by shipping fortu tons to England to 

 exhibit, and they found their enterprise richli^ re- 

 warded, not only in pi-esent sales, hut in future 

 markets. 



A like fair for the exhibit of products from the 

 United States will be held during the coming sea- 

 son, and T don"t h<^ar any thing about the honey- 

 business being represented, and it probably will 



not be, unless some of our magnanimous com- 

 mission merchants take hold of it; and I will leave 

 it to the reader to infer how much the produce)- 

 will be benefited thereby. There is some excuse 

 for us, however, as the exhibit comes in a season 

 when a flrst-class exhibit would probably be impos- 

 sible. 



I commenced this article to describe certain parts 

 of my exhibit. Our Canadian friends have written 

 me kind words of encouragement. I find that the 

 log cabin has special charms for them, and 1 have 

 been requested to explain how it is made. 



The front is a thin board, 18 inches wide and 30 

 inches long; the .lones half-pound cans are attach- 

 ed to this with No. 30 tinned wire (such as we use in 

 wiring frames). The end is 20 by IH inches, with a 

 gable. These two parts, after the tins are fastened 

 on, are hooked together. A board covered with 

 fdu. is put on for a roof, and it is set so the vacan- 

 cy in the rear can not be seen, and it passes for a 

 very good log cabin, and is easily made. The tins 

 that are put on with wire are, of course, empty ; 

 the upright tins and pails can be filled if desired. 

 The pavilion is also easily made. The main work 

 is upon the wooden frame. It is made so as to be 

 taken apart for shipment. In fact, the whole ex- 

 hibit is made with that end in view. A very little 

 time (and less money) was expended, as it was made 

 for show and not for i)ertnanence. ,T. H. Mahtin. 



Hartford, N. Y. 



Friend Martin, I give up; I guess you are 

 all rigiit. Tlie expense of your exhibit, 

 come to understand it, is not as great as 1 

 supposed, and I had entiiely forgotten 

 about the great (V) exhibit of the State of 

 New York. I suppose, of course we should 

 be consistent in these things. A large bee- 

 keeper, or one who has tons of honey to sell 

 every season, could better afford to make an 

 exhibit tiiat would astonish the people, than 

 the one who may have more enthusiasm 

 but less cash oi- experience. What I had 

 in mind was the danger of letting our en- 

 thusiasm lead us into unwise expenditures. 



FROM DIFFERENT FIELDS. 



THE T SUPER WITH TINS AT KIXED DISTANCES. 



T HAVE used your T supers, figured in last 

 (M[ Gleanings, on Heddon's S-frame hive, for two 

 ]ir or three j'cars, with the T stationary. I make 

 "^ the T one-half inch longer than the inside width 

 of super, which, turned bottom up before you, 

 space off for length of sections on edge of side piece. 

 Make fine saw-kerf in those spaces, but slanting, so 

 as not to show on outside; drive the body of the T 

 right down into the kerf; and as it laps on to each 

 side piece ^4 inch, you can nail each 'fi-inch-wide 

 flange, that the sections i-est on, to what will be the 

 bottom of sides. They appear quite firm befori' be- 

 ing nailed. The sections will, of course, be on a 

 level with the bottom of the crate, so you will have a 

 bee-space on the upper side of the crate; and for 

 thi' one below, depend on the one in the wooden 

 honey-board or hive. You readily see, that fasten- 

 ing the ends of the T in this way makes them much 

 stronger than when flopping loosely nronnd. It hI- 

 so avoids your two pieces of angled tin strips the 



