APRir. 15, 1915 



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A PACIFIC -COAST HONEY 



hY W. L. COX 



Here are some photogi'aphs of honey and 

 bee exhibits at the Chehalis ( Wa^;hiiig-ton) 

 coiuity fair. 



Figs. No. 1 and '2 

 sliow 19l;5 exhibits. 

 Tile reader will ob- 

 serve Fig 1 bears a 

 display card with the 

 name J. D. Cox. Mr. 

 Cox is my father, and 

 owned the comb honey. 

 One thousand sections 

 were used. The ex- 

 ti'acted honey, bees- 

 wax, and bees were 

 mine. The exhibit was 

 16 feet long. 



Fig. ;> illustrates my 

 home - made obsen'a- 

 tion hive holding three 

 eight-frame colonies. 

 It has taken several 

 blue I'ibbons. 



Jn the 1913 program 

 there were demonstra- 

 tions each day, and 

 short talks on bees, 

 which proved very in- 

 teresting and instructive. Several 

 keepers present contributed to the 

 gram. 



A part of the 1914 exhibit is shown in 



Fig. 3, which was taken before he had the 

 exliibit finished, though it conveys a good 

 idea of what we had on exhibition. The 



Fig. 2. — Bee products from W. L. Cox's apiary. 



bee- 

 pro- 





Fia. 3. — Three eight-frame colonies are housed in ihis obser^-ation hive. 



display was all mine except the little case 

 of comb honey in the lower left corner. I 

 had a corner space using 24 feet. The view 

 shows the 16-ft. wall space containing the 

 honey and wax. Por- 

 tions of two observa- 

 tion hives are shown 

 but not clearly. The 

 end space not admit- 

 ted to the photograph 

 contained the extract- 

 or and other equip- 

 ment used in the api- 

 ary. 



The leading feature 

 of this year's progi'am 

 was live-bee demon- 

 strations by Master 

 Roy Cox, aged eight 

 yea IS, who took the 

 queen from a colony 

 and carried her around 

 for the croAvd to see. 

 lie worked bareheaded 

 and barehanded, with 

 sleeves i-olled to thei 

 elbows. 



Porter, Wash. 



