1909 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



20 



State Fair Premium Lists. 



The Kansas State-wide Fair will be held at Topeka, 

 Sept. 13—18. All competitors on honey, bees, and bees- 

 wax must be breeders and producers of what they ex- 

 hibit. Exhibits may be sent by prepaid express to the 

 secretary of the fair or the superintendent of each de- 

 partment. All entries must be made by Sept. 13. and 

 exhibits in place not later than 4 p.m. of that day. 

 Each exhibitor will be required to purchase an exhib- 

 itor's ticket. The following premiums are offered: 



Italian bees and queens in observatory hives $5 $3 



Caucasian bees and queen in observatory hive. .53 

 Lart^est and best display of bees and queens in 



mailintf-caifes 5 S 



Best case of white comb honey I 2 



Best case of liu^ht-amber comb honey 3 3 



Best and largest display of comb honey 10 5 



Best display of special designs in comb honey. ...10 5 

 Best comb of white comb honey for extracting. .3 2 

 Best comb of amber comb honey for extracting. . . J 2 



Best dozen jars of white extracted honey S 2 



Best dozen jars of amber extracted honey S 2 



Best display of granulated extracted honey 5 8 



Best and largest display of extracted honey 10 5 



Best 5 lbs. of yellow beeswax 3 2 



Best design in beeswax 5 3 



Best sample of honey vinegar 5 t 



Best and most instructive display of all apiarian 



products 10 5 



Best display of honey-producing plants and flow- 

 ers 5 S 



Best and largest display of bee-keepers' supplies. 10 5 

 T. A. BORMAN, Sup't. 



The Utah State Fair will take place at Salt Lake City 

 the first week in October. Entries close Sept. 30. The 

 following premiums are offered: 



Best exhibit of Italian bees llO |5 



Best 100 lbs. of comb honey 5 3 



Best 100 lbs. of extracted honey 5 3 



Best display of package honey 5 3 



Best 100 lbs. of beeswax 5 3 



Best exhibit of hybrid bees in observatory hives 10 6 

 Best display of Utah honey, special premium. . . 20 



Best display in this class, gold medal and 15 7.50 



T. G. WEBBER, Sup't. 



Convention Notices. 



The annual field-day meeting of the Massachusetts 

 Society of Bee-keepers will be held at the Bungalow 

 Apis of H. \V. Britton, Stoughton, Mass., on August 7. 

 The following is the program: 



11 : 30 to 12 : 30, social hour. 



12 : 30 to 1 : 30, basket lunch. 



Meeting called to order at 1 : 30 by Pres. E. C. Brit- 

 tain. Business session. Action on new members. 

 Unfinished business. Proposal of change in the Con- 

 stitution, Article VIII. 



" Bee-rearing by an Expert." How to procure 200 

 lbs. of honey from one colony in Massachusetts. 



All members are invited to donate a section or frame 

 of honey, and a fancy queen will be given for the best 

 sample. 



Music — cornet and trombone. 



Dr. Stone, Professor of Botany at the Massachusetts 

 Agricultural College, will speak on the subject of 

 " Honey-plants for Eastern Massachusetts." 



Bring honey-plants from your locality for identifi- 

 cation and classification. "~ 



Vice-president Small offers a dark leather Italian 

 queen for each new member that joins our society be- 

 fore the February meeting in 1910. to be sent this fall 

 or after July 10, 1910. 



Question-box. 



Adjournment, 4:30 P. M. 



Observation hives. Wild bee-hives, imported queen 

 from Reggio, Itally. Fancy comb honey made in 

 April. May. June, and July will be on exhibition. 



Accommodations: Steam trains leave South Station, 

 Boston, at 10:15 and 12:15: return at 4:45 P. .M. Electric 

 cars leave Dudley Street to Mattapan and Blue Hill 

 Street Ry. to Canton and Stoughton. Automobiles at 

 Stoughton station. 



Coffee and ice cream donated by Henry W. Britton. 



All interested in bees are invited to attend. 



S. J. C. Needham, Sec'y, 

 Hotel Eliot, Roxbury, Mass. 



Special Notices by A. I. Root. 



THE SURE-CATCH RAT-TRAP. 



We are enabled to give you a price of 10 cts. each, or 

 75 cts. per dozen, for the Sure-catch rat-trap, like the 

 mouse-trap mentioned in our last issue. If these are 

 wanted by mail, as they are much larger and heavier 

 than the mouse-traps they will require 10 cts. addition- 

 al for postage. These traps do the business, according 

 to our experience, better than any other trap on the 

 market, not even excepting the ordinary steel trap, 

 and they will hold securely a pretty good-sized animal. 

 If you are careless in handling them you may get 

 pretty good evidence that they are a "wicked" thing 

 to have around, without any doubt. 



As these traps are now sold at most hardware stores 

 and at many of the groceries, it may be cheaper for 

 you to buy them at home rather than have them sent 

 by mail, as the postage ia about equal to the value of 

 the trap. 



PURE WATER FOR DRINKING. 



In your articles you often recommend the drinking 

 of pure rain water. May I ask you how you get it pure 

 enough for drinking purposes? I know there are fil- 

 ters and filters, but have a notion yours is just right. 



Gleanings cames to us for its Home department 

 alone. We now live in town and do not own a bee. 



Sherrard, 111., July 20. MRS. J. S. Quaintance. 



My good friend, after having experiment- 

 ed witn various filters I have given them all 

 up entirely. The safest water for me to 

 drink is ram water; and when I am traveling 

 I always ask for rain water or cistern water. 

 If the latter has a bad taste, where I can, I 

 have it boiled before drinking. Permit me 

 to say that my health just now is better than 

 it has been for years; and I have taken hard- 

 ly a drop of any thing but boiled water from 

 the cistern for many months. Perhaps my 

 digestion is peculiar; but it does not seem to 

 stand any sort of minerals. For years I 

 drank distilled water only. But this is too 

 much trouble and expense, especially in 

 summer, when we do not need the heat of a 

 cook-stove. So I finally settled down on 

 boiled cistern water. The water from any 

 sort of cistern — that is, the water that comes 

 from the clouds — contains almost no min- 

 eral matter. The boiling precipitates what 

 little mineral there may be from the hme in 

 the walls of the cistern, and it also effectual- 

 ly kills every sort of animal or vegetable life. 

 This boiled water is kept in an enameled pail 

 with a close-fitting cover. I would not boil 

 very much at a time, because during the hot 

 weather organic growth may start in the wa- 

 ter in a weeK or ten days. I suppose it would 

 be a little better to have it boiled fresh ev- 

 ery day or every other day. With this boil- 

 ed water to drink, and hard bread that I can 

 chew thoroughly, and plenty of good ripe 

 apples, say an hour before beotime, my 

 health and spirits keep right up day after day 

 and week after week. I feel satisfied that 

 boiled water is a very important agent in 

 successfully avoiding summer complaints 

 and all troubles pertaining particularly to the 

 hot-weather period. I drink nothing at my 

 meals but, say, half a teacupful of milk, and 

 the boiled water is taken an hour or two aft- 

 er meals. 



