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AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



Illinois Fair Apiaria.ii Exhibit. 



— The honey show at the Illinois State Fair 

 in September, at Springfield, was quite a 

 success, considering the poor crop. There 

 was a good display of comb and extracted 

 honey, candied honey, beeswax, apiarian 

 implements, etc. 



Mr. Kirkpatrick, of Indiana, was present 

 with a fine display of comb and extracted 

 honey, and carried off the blue ribbons on 

 both, as well as the apiarian implements. 



Miss Kennedy, of Pasfield, 111., took 2nd 

 premium on comb honey, and her display 

 was not much behind the first best. 



Chas. Becker, of Pleasant Plains, 111., 

 secured 3nd on extracted honey, and his 

 display was (as was Miss Kennedy's) 

 almost, if not fully, as good as that which 

 took 1st— but not shown to the same ad- 

 vantage. 



W. J. Finch, of Springfield, exhibited a 

 very fine lot of beeswax, though others who 

 had arranged for designs in wax, carried 

 off the ribbons. Mr. Finch obtained the 

 blue ribbon on foundation mill in operation. 

 Mr. Becker took 1st on extractor in oper- 

 ation. 



Jas. A. Stone, of Bradfordton, 111., took 

 1st on candied honey, and the same on best 

 display of beeswax. 



Keeping' Combs from IVIotlis. — 



Mrs. L. Harrison tells how it is done, in the 

 Americnn Bee-Keqjer, as follows: 



A year ago last spring we put a number 

 of hives containing combs into the cellar. 

 In a week's time we looked them over care- 

 fully, destroying all grubs. The third time 

 we looked them over we failed to find one, 

 not a moth developed in the cellar, and not 

 one entered, as the windows were covered 

 with wire-cloth. There has not been in- 

 crease enough to use those combs this sum- 

 mer, and there has not a grub appeared in 

 any of them. 



Bee-Keeping in Cuba is very en- 

 tertainingly written in QUaniwjn by Fred 

 L. Craycraft, of San Jose de las Gajas. 

 (Whew! but isn't that a whopper of a 

 name? It's almost as big as the island of 

 Cuba itself!) Mr. Craycraft's report on 

 July 28, 18'J4, is summed up in this para- 

 graph: 



Beginning in October, 1891, with 16 colo- 

 nies, all very weak, none of them having 

 over seven combs, I have increased them to 

 300 colonies, and extracted 58,0U0 pounds of 

 honey. I might have had more last year, 

 but did not have time to attend to them as 



I should have done, and had only about 160 

 colonies ready for the honey-flow, as I had 

 to superintend the work on aSOOacre farm. 



Extracted honey brings from 3 to 3}.j 

 cents a pound there, inclusive of package. 

 It is gathered principally from the campa- 

 nula vine, or bell-flower, which is not af- 

 fected by drouth, and blooms from Novem- 

 ber to August. Mr. C. prefers the leather- 

 colored Italian bees, for the reason that his 

 " experience proves them to be superior to 

 the five-banded or golden Italians, for they 

 seem to be harder and stronger, and the 

 queens remain more prolific than the others 

 during cool weather, which is very impor- 

 tant here, as the honey-flow comes during 

 the winter months." 



According to the writer named, what is 

 needed in Cuba is " practical, experienced 

 men who are not afraid to work." Guess 

 that's what is wanted almost everywhere, 

 isn't it ? "Scarcity of Spanish bee-litera- 

 ture " is also mentioned. Now if the peo- 

 ple there would only learn to read English, 

 the Bee Journal would be glad to " smile " 

 upon them every week. Mr. Craycraft 

 might perhaps get up a reading class, using 

 the Bee Journal as one of the text-books. 



Protliictiou an<l Marketing.— 



Bro. S. E. Miller, in the September Progres- 

 sive Jiee-Kceper, offers the following very 

 sensible ideas on marketing a crop of honey 

 when you have one to dispose of : 



Producing a crop of honey is not an easy 

 task, but after it is done, our work is not 

 ended. Disposing of it at anything like a 

 decent price takes about as much brains 

 and hustling around as securing a crop, 

 unless one happens to have a good near-by 

 market. For the law's sakes, brother bee- 

 keepers, try to dispose of what you have 

 without sending it to the large cities where 

 an over-supply grinds down the prices, so 

 that when you go to sell your merchant a 

 case of honey, he will look up St. Louis 

 prices on honey, and offer you the same. 

 Every bee-keeper should try to keep his 

 honey away from the large market centers, 

 for that is where prices are made, and we 

 must then abide by them. 



A Sweet 4'liil«l Wone.-Bro. J. M. 

 Jenkins, of Wetumpka, Ala., on Sept. 26th, 

 informed us of the loss of his dear daughter, 

 in the following letter: 



Friend York:— After a long, lingering 

 illness, my oldest child — a daughter 14 years 

 old— passed away on Aug. 31st. Her re- 

 mains were carried to Bozeman, Ala., Sept. 



